Will you make me a quilt?

[Margo C.]

Alex

I think we all need to go back to show 101 with Joe Cunningham and relisten to "Make me a Quilt" - I think he nailed it!!! LOL

((I wish I could find my way to episode 101 with Joe Cunningham and relisten to "make me a quilt"))
I must be missing something because I could not go backwards to view older shows,I know this is going to be some thing so simple that I'm missing on retracking the episodes.

Lost Again!!! ops:

Kathy, try this:
On the purple bar at the top of the page, click on WATCH A SHOW.
Scroll down where it says: "Series 1, Episode List" and click on VIEW.
Scroll down to Episode 101 and click on it to view it!

[Alex A.]

Alex

I think we all need to go back to show 101 with Joe Cunningham and relisten to "Make me a Quilt" - I think he nailed it!!! LOL

((I wish I could find my way to episode 101 with Joe Cunningham and relisten to "make me a quilt"))
I must be missing something because I could not go backwards to view older shows,I know this is going to be some thing so simple that I'm missing on retracking the episodes.

Lost Again!!! ops:

[Alex A.]

I think we all need to go back to show 101 with Joe Cunningham and relisten to "Make me a Quilt" - I think he nailed it!!! LOL

[Eileen K.]

Lucy

I make my own fabric printing sheets out of freezer paper cut the exact same size that my printer will allow,ironed onto a muslin "Starched" fabric. then I send it through the printer. Don't remove paper until you have printed out the photo. I heat set photo with my iron then I soak the photo fabric with a teaspoon of vinegar to set ink more for 10-15 minutes. Throw into dryer, then iron fusiable web onto fabric so I can iron my photo to other squares.Then I sew a decortive stitch around my photo.
It works great,and saves abit of money.
Good Luck,Kathy

[Eileen K.]

i was explaining this all to my mom who started quilting with me and we have taken classes together and such. my first quilts were 2 i spy quilts for my neice and nephew that mom and i did together. i had said to her that i quilt for my pleasure and if i want to give someone a gift that is fine but you don't ask for a gift (by the way i also dislike gift regesteries for the same reason) so anyway as i am telling her this i said that i have to like someone alot to make a quilt for them. and she looks at me and said you have never made me a quilt. now anyone who knows me knows how much i love my mom we are the best of friends and more but i looked at her and said you can make one yourself. everytime i offer to make or give her something she tells me that i don't have to or that she has no space in the camper for it. but in a way i have worked on a quilt for her she is making a queen size nine patch altering with plain squares of muslum. and i crawled on my knees downstairs layering and basting the thing together. and i helped her pick fabric for it.

also katz i have done 4 photo quilts as of right now how do you use your own fabric on the i spies we put pics of the family on it and mom used a product called bubble jet but i like the quality of the pics using the printer fabric in the stores best so far but i am up to new ideas because i think chris' dad would like one after he saw the one i made his mom last christmas.

thanks later

[Eileen K.]

Lucy,
You dodged a bullet!!! If they come back to hubby with another offer, tell them you've got XX projects lined up and they'd have to get in line.
eileenkny

[Lynn K.]

Lucy

I made a picture quilt and I put $500.00 or more into making a family quilt top You're absolutely right it cost "alot" in buying all the materials needed along with all the ink that is needed. Though I learnt quickly on how to make my own fabric sheets for printing photos. I made two photo quilts.

I sorta of had the same line pulled on me once, DH step mom
Asked me if I wouldquilt 4-5 quilt tops of her Mother inlaw
which is my DH step mom asking me to quilt his grand mothers Granny's quilt tops.
followed by saying;
I can have it done for $75.00 "I'm like you better jump right on that deal"!!! Because I won't quilt any that cheap!Now these we're unfinished quilt tops of my DH grandmother, He
was never offered a quilt of his grandmothers though I was suppose to quilt them,yeah right...I DON'T THINK SO.
I think that takes alot of nerve. If things are done with in the correct manner she could of had those quilts quilted free no charge because I Loved Granny,we we're close. I couldn't even imagine what Granny thought on this one! (( lets say she wouldn't have been happy and she wouldn't have done it either if she we're me))I'm a really good person but if you cross me wrong in a bad manner than you shall recieve nothing in return.


Then my DH came home one day and says another (friend) asked me to ask you if you would make her a nice quillow like the one I had made for another friend ,they saws hers and liked it alot and now wants one like hers. Yeah, right I think our dear friend just asked the wrong person!!! Okay,I had made the other friends mother one also because she asked me if I would for Xmas,she offered to pay but I wouldn't take her money,a friend. Though,Here is the thank you I recieved,"a note on my 360 page" was it!!! No call.

Quilting is a Labor of Love,
Alot of Heart & Soul put into each quilt and I don't take it lightly in my receivers as any thing less than what I have given them.
(( quilts should be appreciated and welcomed with Love ))

Don't ask my DH to put you on my quilting list!!! :shock:

[Lynn K.]

i just want to say thank you to all those who posted such good advice on this thread. the other day my husband got a call from a friend that wanted to ask me to make a quilt for him with pics of his children on it. not could he pay me for one but would i like i would do it for free. lucky for me i had time to get on here and read your replies because it worked. first i was upset that he acted like i would do it for free and i barely have time to finish my own projects let alone others then after telling him minium 500.00 because he has 5 kids and wanted pics which that printer fabric is expensive. i find out he wanted his kids and the kids from his girl friend who has 6. 11 kids total on this quilt. as i was breaking down the price of fabric and everything my husband who was relaying every thing to him said the girlfriend (who i have never met) said she knew someone who would do it for 150.00 i told them to jump on that because i really think she was saying it to get me to lower my price and there really isn't another person. also i offered to teach them how to do it themselves. but that idea was brushed off also. so again i want to thank you all for helping me out of a bad deal.

[Lynn K.]

All of my co-workers know that I quilt (a LOT). They've seen most of my quilts (which are numerous). They all want me to: a. give them one, b. sell them one for maybe $100, or can I make them one of their choice. What do you say? And what do you say to the person who says, "What do you do with all your quilts?" I often liken this to asking an artist what he does with all his paintings! I make them because I just have to!

Here are some of my answers to similar questions:

1. I charge $45 plus / an hour cause I demand time and a half to work on someone else's quilt.

2. I get to pick the color and the pattern because it has to be interesting to me to work on it. YOU just get to pay the bill.... By the way most quilt fabrics, batting, supplies are over $100 a quilt .... We QUILTERS just do not tell our husbands the true cost.

3./ I would need to buy a long arm quiting set up and that cost over $17,000. How much do they want to pay toward my project.

4. / Sorry but their quilt would have to get in line behind all the quilts I WANT TO MAKE .... behind the quilts I want to give to my loved ones and family. .... behind the quilts I need to make for the quilt show, competition, quilt challenges..... behind all the other orders/ request I have ahead of them. Their quilt might be available in 2050 IF ....I do not have any more grand children.

5/ WHAT DO YOU DO WITH ALL YOUR QUILTS? I hoard them in my home till I give them to my loved ones. Quilts by master quiltmakers / quilt artist go FOR REALLY BIG BUCKS. AS far as I am concerned I am a master quiltmaker / artis t compared with anyone else who wants to hire me to make a quilt.

I DO GIVE OUT THE BUSINESS CARD TO A YOUNG WOMAN THAT MAKES QUILTS TO ORDER FOR MONEY. I just let everyone know that the woman needs to earn her money at home she is not cheap but she is fair and her workman ship is par excellance.


As you can probably tell I am a bit of a prima donna.... either that or a pain in the butt.

[Lynn K.]

two years ago a lady on my bowling league asked me to make 6 lap size memory quilts for her to give away as gifts at Christmas to her siblings. She supplied the clothes and paid for the extra materials needed and my time. Now her mother has passed and wants 6 more done. I also had a friend ask me to make two lap size quilts for to give as gifts for this Christmas. I ended up suggesting that I teach her to make the quilts. It would mean that much more to her mom and sister plus I have added two more quilters to the world. (Her daughter also wants to learn). THat frees up some time for me to finish my own bed quilt. If they are willing to learn, then they will understand what goes into a quilt.

Cheryl

[Lynn K.]

Yes, ma'am! For sure!

[Annette R.]

Lynn you asked for input on quilts for guys-- actually I have more quilts that were for couples or for a single man than I have for women. The first quilt I made for our nephew was red, white and blue stripes. He had painted his iron bed with red white and blue trim and four years later it was the only personal thing that he took to basic training last year so I know he loved it. I need to start on his wedding quilt for DEC 2008.hope this one will be as treasured as the first one was.

hope to meet you in person in Houston in Nov. Ann

[Lynn K.]

I have 2 daughters and 2 SIL and have wondered if they would care if I made one or not? Since they are guys, they appear as tho they might not, but then I watch them admire the ones for the DD and think, "Hmmm. Maybe they would really like one.

Input?

Thanks.

[Carla G.]

I think the most special giving of a quilt to someone for me was last Fall I made a baby quilt for a young Mother at my church. Her situation was not the best, but she is so sweet and something about her touched my heart when I first met her. When she opened the quilt, she began to cry and said that nobody had ever taken time to make her anything in her life. It was such a simple thing, but spoke many things to her. I'll never forget that and it reminded me that we never know when something small will mean the world to someone.

Dana in Olive Branch, MS enjoying my favorite time of the day.

[Carla G.]

I make my quilts for those I hold dear and each holds a special meaning for that person. For my DIL Heidi I made a quilt for her BD this year of teacups and teapots because she collects them and loves tea..... anyway.... when she opened it she started to cry and said "I didn't think I was going to get one..... u DO love me!" Made me feel so good that it meant so much to her.... that is a part of what quilting is about for me.

Carla
In temporarily sunny Oregon