Would you keep a store sample you had made?

I'm probably like you. If I really liked it (and it was in great shape still) -- I'd take it! Otherwise -- the credit would let me start a next project.

Well, that would depend ... I love Joan's quilts (and purse!!!) so if they were *mine*, I'd want them back. NOW. The LQS owner would have been lucky if she were able to get her hands on'em in the first place!!

My stuff? Heck, I'd SO take the credit!! :)

Hugs!! Connie :)

I've never done a store sample, but I suspect that I'd take the store credit. I think I wouldn't be quite as "attached" to a sample as to something I'd *chosen* to make, and the credit would allow me to make something I truly wanted to make.

I'd keep it, then probably give it to someone I knew. I get way too emotionally attached to my quilts to just abandon them in some store. :-)

Sherry

I wonder what the store does with all those quilts??? Are they sold? If so, I'd rather sell them myself and make the extra money for my labors...

Leslie, Missy & The Furbabies in MO.

After their 'sample' life is over, they are offered to the public in a silent auction.

joan

oooOOOhhhhh... That explains why they want your gorgeous quilts! I bet they make good money on them!

Leslie, Missy & The Furbabies in MO.

We can also sell the samples we keep thru that auction. Just too delayed a gratification for me. :>

They do sell for nice prices. Not only do non-quilters bid, but also our regular customers. Particularly amusing when someone buys a sample and already owns the kit!

joan

Same here, Sherry!! After a while, they become like children (almost)!! So hard to give them away - unless you know they're going to a loving home!! :) Besides, quilts are made to be used and loved!! How are they going to fulfill their "destiny" in a store window or storage room??!!

hugs!! C> > Joan in Nebraska often makes samples for a quilt shop and recently

I am beginning to wonder what I can do with all the store samples I get back. Most are small (less than 24" by 24") miniatures. I rotate many through my house changing the pieces on the wall once a month. Even at this rate I have way too many. I make at least two a month. One of these days I will have to sort through the boxes and donate several to charity.

Susan

There are several charity websites that periodically have auctions that you might want to check into at some point. These might be too big for Ami Simms' Alzheimer's quilt auction...but perhaps not. Keep an eye out when you get them sorted as to what you want to keep and donate.

Make them into a sampler quilt. all you need to do is join them together...sorta like a quilt as you go except the quilting is already finished. then you will have a usable very quickly. Course you could always send a dozen to me and I'll put it together.....would look great on one of our beds

HTH Butterfly (sounds like a monthly sampler is in order)

Would a local hospital be able to use them as prem quilts ? (DD was only 13 inches long when she was born and DS was 17 but he wasn't prem LOL)

Dee in Oz