The Great Quilt Giveaway!

Quilts quilts and more quilts.  Just how many does one person need? There’s only so much wall space for wallhangings, even if you switch them around seasonally, and only so many quilts will fit on a bed – even during a frigid Wisconsin winter.  And, even more importantly, there are new quilts always wanting to be made so in order to make room for new ones, I treated my family to The Great Quilt Giveaway last weekend. 🙂

I picked a bunch of them that I was willing to part with from large lap quilt to various sized wallhangings, packed them all up, and when my niece came to pick me up her eyes lit up when I told her what we were going to do with them.  We spread them all out on the lawn, chasing a few down from time to time since it was rather breezy…

Then I put numbers in a hat and everyone drew one to find out what order they got to chose their quilt in.  There were only two rules:  (1) Mothers could not influence their children in the choice of quilt they made.   This rule specifically made for my sister and sister-in law who would have been more than willing to let their kids know which ones they liked and thought the kids should pick. 🙂  and (2) no whining if someone who got to chose before you picked the one you had your eye on.

There were a few moans as someone chose the quilt someone else was hoping for but no whining.  And I think everyone was very happy with what they got to take home.  Here’s a few photos of the chosen quilts with their new owners.

Mom and Dad - wallhanging is one of my designs

Niece Emily - quilt pattern from Judy Laquidara's Nine Patch Extravaganza book

Renee (sister) - pattern from magazine made as a challenge with a friend

Niece Sarah and quilt made for a TQP challenge project

Of course once we were finished, they all wanted to know if there was going to be  an ANNUAL great quilt give away.  I told them, it all depended on how long and cold (and productive I was) next winter! 🙂