Will you make me a quilt?

[Beth A.]

I have a friend who has 3 children 2 grown and married and one that is 8 years old. She was over the other day and seen my wips and said "I need you to make me 4 quilts for christmas." :shock: Then proceeded to tell me the color schemes of the quilts she wanted and asked if I had any books she could look at to pick a pattern. :roll: I just said how about I teach you to quilt. :idea: Her response were her time restrictions. Her son is in too many activities. So I asked how big she wanted these quilts 2 king 1 queen and 1 full :shock: :shock: :shock: I told her I make baby quilts and that I was in the middle of making a baby quilt right now but she could visit and watch me work on it. So I made sure I did a very intricate part of the quilt at that moment. then later when she asked me to come over I took my on the go project so she could see that too. She hasn't asked again.Rachel

[Beth A.]

Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you. graduation season, you know.

Yes, I use Bubble Jet Rinse to set the Hewlett Packard Vivera inks after using HP Bubble Jet Set.

BethMI

[Sandy F.]

I was hand quilting a quilt in the dining room of the nursing home last week and one of the ladies in charge of activities asked me if I made quilts for other people. She would pay to have a quilt made if I was interested and then she said a lady down the road would do it but charged $900 a quilt and that was too much. I politely said I was too slow a quilter that I only had time to make them for family.

[Sandy F.]

I recently discovered that C. Jenkins has a product almost never found in quilt stores: Bubble Jet Set for Hewlett Packard printers. Their regular Bubble Jet Set 2000 is really made for Canon and Epson-type inkjet printers. HP uses a different ink formulation and it doesn't work as well with the regular BJS 2000. I had been frustrated with the results of BJS labels over the past couple of years and had reverted to the (much more expensive) Printed Treasures. They work well, but you have to use white backgrounds for your printing, which I found limiting for my quilt labels. I wanted to use my own, matching fabric, so needed to find a BJS-type product that worked with my HP printer with Vivera inks. So I emailed the contact at C. Jenkins, and he recommended the HP BJS.

The only place I have found the HP BJS is online at the Jenkins website: http://www.cjenkinscompany.com/Bubbl...t_2000_s/3.htm

I used this with a couple of recent quilt labels, and it worked great.

BethMI

I have only done one or two quilt lables...

I ironed then taped my fabric of choice to a sheet of freezer paper that fits into my machine ( took the regular stuff from a roll and cut it to size) I ironed the freezer paper to the fabric. I then change ths setting on my printer for thick paper ( card stock) I put the fabric paper through .... one sheet only ... can not load more then that.


It worked okay ... not sure how long it will hold up... wouldn't it be a bummer if all these printed fabrics faded over time....

I worry about that in the middle of the night.

[Sandy F.]

Betty Ann, I love that answer!

I wonder why people think we can make them inexpensive quilts? Everything else that's handcrafted is *more* expensive than store-bought.

One of life's mysteries.

[Sandy F.]

A friend hired me to make a quilt, and there's another that wants me to make some memory quilts. Fortunately they understand costs and time put into these, and are willing to pay for something unique and personalized just for them. I take all supplies and multiply by 3, then add a little more if the quilting is more intricate. There is a photo of a quilt in my profile for the guatemalan adoption. I will probably charge 180-200. It is 42X46 with light quilting.

cheryl

[Sandy F.]

Cheryl your adoption quilt is lovely, very moving. You are also lucky to have people who appreciate the value of your work. Maggi