Sounds like we all do about the same thing.  Gift, donate, and save a few.  Quilters are generally quite generous with their talents and their quilts get to e enjoyed by so many others.  I also like to keep a few on hand for those occasions when you need a gift or something.  I keep a few baby and nap quilts and it has come in quite handy at times.  The other day I got a call to ask if I had anything I could donate to a fund raiser silent auction for an ill community member.  Sure did!  Thanks for sharing.

MelRN said:

gave some to somebody for charity recently and they didn't even say thanks so I was a bit peeved

I've had that happen a few times and it is frustrating.  How long does it take to drop a quick note?

Your lucky find sounds pretty.  Do we get to see a photo?

Many years ago I went to an estate auction sale whos  my mom said was a quilter.  That's where I got my Singer 301 in a beautiful cabinet for $1!.  I went back later to see this huge pile of stuff that did not sell.  I poked around a bit and looked in this box to find a hand pieced full sized Storm at Sea quilt top ready to be hauled to the dump!  I wish I could have looked more but the garbage truck was right there.  I would certainly rather my thing went to Goodwill than the dump!.  I still think about what other treasures were pitched.

Agreed! Or even look at someone with the two words. LOL!!! Oh, well. I'm sure there are other places that would be thankful to receive them.

I was a reluctant convert to quilting when my friend dragged me to a guild meeting, but it soon became my hobby of choice.  The first several years were spent learning and making not so great quilts for family.  As I became better at quilting, I 'replaced' some of the earlier gifts to family with nicer quilts.  Once friends and others were gifted quilts, I was kind of at a loss, but like someone else mentioned, just the process of making them brings me so much happiness!  I now rarely make any for family except for new additions such as nieces and nephews' babies.  And, somewhere over the last 20 years of quilting, it became a ministry, so when I feel directed to make a comfort quilt for someone, I do. 

So I have ministry quilts done, waiting for the recipient to be revealed to me, plus a few quilts that I just liked the pattern and had the fabric so I made them for enjoyment and they are stored in a bin - only 3 tho'!! 

Oh, and regarding not being thanked or shown any appreciation at all, I've tried to ignore that, although it's hard sometimes.  I just try to remind myself that I'm the lucky one for getting to make a quilt and gift it and try not to let the annoyance get to me.

Mary in Michigan

I still haven't made quilts for all my family members yet, so there's that.  My goal for 2022 is to use up more fabric, and finish more quilts to give away to family members AND my quilt group's charity, Shriner's Hospital in Houston.  

I think that sometimes we may have to read between the lines to hear the thank you. Whether gifting or donating, I accept acompliment on the beauty of the quilt as equal to a thank you.

Jo

I'll get a photo soon.  

I love your generous attitude!

It is hard when you gift a quilt to someone who has no grasp of the effort that goes in to making a quilt.

Once I wished I had had taken my credit card to a big box store and bought an inexpensive "blanket" as a gift for someone because the person had no understanding of the hours of work I had put into the quilt I had made. I rolled my eyes at DH because it was one of his relatives; I learned my lesson to select quilt recipients more wisely in the future.