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11-09-2014, 06:48 AM
#61
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Behind my sewing machine
Posts: 7,202
I do my own for several reasons...Cost of materials are so high that I would never beable to do as many as I do if I had to pay someone. When I did give a few away that were quilted they are Wow did you do this - the design of the FMQ'ing...I felt odd that I did not...and then my hubby wanted one but wanted me to FMQ it. I said I could not in my sewing machine so he bought me a 7700 so I could...so since then I have done my own. It has paid for its self...
11-09-2014, 06:58 AM
#63
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Missouri
Posts: 2,485
I have sent out my quilt for a long time, since I could no long hand quilt. I give the quilter credit but still feel as if they are my own as I picked the fabrics, sometimes designed them, cut and pieced it and usually put the binding on., spending way more time on it than a quilter would. A few years ago I bought as small machine and frame so do some on that and also some on my domestic machine. It just depends on what size quilt it is and how I want it to look whether I send it out or try to do it myself.
11-09-2014, 07:15 AM
#65
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Southern California
Posts: 19,127
[QUOTE=joe'smom;6960927]I can't afford to send quilts out (but I think I'd prefer to do them myself, even if I could afford it).[/QUOTE
This is my situation but being disable now forces me to make smaller quilt.
This is my situation but being disable now forces me to make smaller quilt.
11-09-2014, 07:22 AM
#66
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 727
I have been giving myself the luxury of sending every 5th or 6th quilt to the LA quilter. She does a fantastic job and I can afford to do that on special quilts. However, I am getting better at machine quilting on my old vintage Singers and I love to hand quilt in the winter when it is nice and cozy to have the quilt on my lap while I am hand quilting. So, the answer is yes, I do upon occasion give myself the privilege of using my wonderful LA quilter just so she keeps doing it and the cost is worth it for her great talent.
11-09-2014, 07:26 AM
#67
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 307
Ditto! This is just the way I feel.....plus....I don't know any LA and I know they must charge an arm and a leg.
11-09-2014, 07:47 AM
#69
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Montana
Posts: 194
I have sent several Queen size out to be quilted but it really is to pricey for me. I have had to stopmakn the large quilts and no do all my own quilting......which is SID or meandering o FMQ. Wish LAQ were affordable for me.
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