Liam Posted May 23, 2013 Report Share Posted May 23, 2013 Driving home on the interstate today I can upon a young guy in a truck pulling a boat. I was in shock when I saw what he had covering his boat motor, held on with bungee straps. It was a Log Cabin style quilt!!! As it was blowing in the wind I saw a signature square on the back. All that work put into making this quilt, just to be used as a boat motor cover………Shameful! I couldn’t bare to stay behind this guy for very long! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delld Posted May 23, 2013 Report Share Posted May 23, 2013 Oh no!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitepinesquilter Posted May 23, 2013 Report Share Posted May 23, 2013 Sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFQuilts Posted May 23, 2013 Report Share Posted May 23, 2013 Oh Liam, this is what we dread as quilters. Just because movers use industrial quilts for padding stuff when moving does not mean that our quilts are to be used willy-nilly. I applaud you for not forcing him off the road and taking the quilt off the motor! Still, if you happen to ever read a label on a misused quilt, maybe you can use the info to find the quilter and tell him/her never to make another quilt for person xyz. Lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastquilts Posted May 23, 2013 Report Share Posted May 23, 2013 This is so sad, all that work for a boat cover! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heritage Keepsakes Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 Thats terrible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anniemueller Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 Ouch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zora Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 Don't worry, his dog had probably already chewed a huge hole in the center of it, right near where he had dropped his cigarette and burned a chunk out of it, before he managed to extinguish the flames with the bottle of red wine on the kitchen counter... so there was still enough of Grandma's quilt to wrap around the motor. Sheesh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primitive1 Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 Oh that's painful!!!! I wonder how he'd feel if we used his boat for a planter, or firewood or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CindyT Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 Well maybe the boat and a quilt made by his ex-mother-in-law is all he got in his divorce settlement, and it was the only way he saw fit to use the quilt. I am ducking now by all the things ya'll are throwing at me. It would be a shame indeed, Liam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pumpkinpatchquilter Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 OH NO! That is so sad!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted May 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 Lynn you’re probably right! Cindy I made a beautiful DWR for my brother when he got married, had their names and marriage date embroidered on it in a cornered ring center. They got a divorcing a few years later. Neither one of them wanted the quilt because it had each other’s name on it. So it ended up as a dog bed out in the dog house.......ruined! I was so sick about it! I told my brother I could have fixed the name issue easy enough. So to this day I will not embroider names on wedding quilts, nor will I make my brother another quilt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagecl Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 I gave my daughter her wedding quilt a year after her divorce (she and her husband were married 2 years). It was a good thing I was slow on finishing it. Needless to say there were no names or dates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustSewSimple Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 I'd have flagged him down and bought it from him for the price of a canvas cover! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CindyT Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 Cindy I made a beautiful DWR for my brother when he got married, had their names and marriage date embroidered on it in a cornered ring center. They got a divorcing a few years later. Neither one of them wanted the quilt because it had each other’s name on it. So it ended up as a dog bed out in the dog house.......ruined! I was so sick about it! I told my brother I could have fixed the name issue easy enough. So to this day I will not embroider names on wedding quilts, nor will I make my brother another quilt.[/size] Wow, Liam...don't blame you for not wanting to make him another one. We just put so much of ourselves into the quilts we make for our loved ones. Wish they could all appreciate that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anniemueller Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 Well maybe the boat and a quilt made by his ex-mother-in-law is all he got in his divorce settlement, and it was the only way he saw fit to use the quilt. I am ducking now by all the things ya'll are throwing at me. You have a great imagination Cindy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shar Schmutz Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 We can only put the love in our quilts out there, no guarantees it will be returned in kind. So sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustSewSimple Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 It is kind of like giving money to those in need......you can't worry if they are going to by drugs or such with it. When you hand it to them you just let it go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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