pinkberrykay

Thank you so much for string your CW quilt it is absolutley STUNNING. Im still teetering, can't decide it the cost out weighs the amazing stunning quilt I will get in the end.

pinkberrykay

I can see it didn't take long for me to change my mind. After seeing Delilah CW quilt makes me want to do one even more.

caspharm

I think it depends on how much you like the pattern and the fabrics. I enrolled in several BOMs of the years and did nothing with them. I ended up selling them for way less than the cost of the fabric. But I have some other BOMs that I have half finished (was working full-time - retired, so now I need to finish them ).

As someone mentioned earlier in the thread, check your LQS to see if they do a BOM where you buy in for the first month, then complete blocks to bring in the following month for a free block. I did complete a couple from my old LQS that are this type and enjoyed as well as currently finishing one up (ends this month) at my LQS, where they are doing flowers and baskets, you could choose or the other, for I believe it was $10 signup, or a third option was both, where you do one set as the finish and get one free, still the $10 signup for the one, and the second set is $60 up front to pay for the whole year. I get two patterns (one flower, one basket) and fabric each month since I signed up for both flowers and baskets. My only thing was I am not crazy about their fabrics, so I am using my fabric stash to make them my way. These type of BOM may not always include the background fabric for the block, but that helps make it more personalized since you choose the background fabric. It's fun to see how different they look.

Having worked in a LQS, the BOMs like CW involve the store enrolling with the mfr who provides the patterns (both for the shop and the customers), ordering the specific fabrics, cutting the fabric pieces per pattern directions (they actually include the amount of each fabric for each month or quarter the shop is to provide for the BOM), packaging the BOM, making sure each customer gets their BOM, and shipping them out. Depending on how many customers are in the BOM or how many different BOMs they have, the shop can have several people dedicated to just processing BOMs .

earlori7

Sometimes there are BOM on Swap Bot. I am in a black and white BOM. You provide the fabric so besides the fabric you have or purchase the only other cost is mailing it to the partner you are assigned to. I have been in a few others and it is fun making more online friends.

BettyGee

INHO I think they are much too expensive. I did the Civil War through Keepsake and I don't even want to think about how much it cost me just to have them cut the fabric for me 'cause basically that's what it is. I like to find my pattern and then play with the fabrics to find the right fit, to me that is what makes quilting so much fun. Kits fall into that same category, at least for me, as I can cut fabric if you tell me what I need and what shape I need. Plus sometimes I don't like the colors that are selected. So, that said, I avoid both of these money eaters.

deedum

I have done it once, never again.

ctack2

This site has several BOM kits that are all under $15 a month.
http://www.prairielandquilts.com/block_of_the_month.php

raedar63

I I ever do a BOM this is it!

Olivia's Grammy

I've done two BOM and won't do another one. You start out with a $1 per month, (at my LQS) if you get your block at the specified time. The boarders and the backing really adds up. Plus if one of the blocks is cut wrong, and that did happen to me, it causes problems if you don't do the block as soon as you get it. I like to prewash all my fabic and I would be a little afarid to wash the tiny pieces. I've seen the wool BOM quilts in one of the quilting magazines and it was about $500.

Mauck

They have the complete kit at www.crafttownfabrics.com for $297.00 that includes the pattern and binding. That doesn't seem to be a bad price. It's a perrty good size quilt.