Quilts at Cracker Barrel
01-01-2010, 05:45 PM
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I have seen the quilts at Cracker Barrel too - I have never believed them to be handquilted - no way at that price - they are pretty to look at but would not hold up being used, I'm sure... if something is too cheap to be real - it's too cheap... I have seen hundreds of handquilted quilts on this board worth far more than the ones at Cracker Barrel. And more beautiful.
01-01-2010, 08:51 PM
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I saw some beautiful quilts at Cracker Barrel in November. If I was not a quilter, I would have bought one. They were much nicer than the ones you see at retail stores with the ugly stitching. But, hey, I make quilts. Why would I buy?
01-01-2010, 10:32 PM
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Fact is if it is pretty it is pretty. And if you spend a year or more on a quilt and DH or the dogs or whomever doesn't appreciate it and take care of it why wouldn't you buy a pretty inexpensive commercial quilt to be "used" hard? I have a quilt on my bed made of polyester and made by the Amish ladies here in my county. I didn't pay much for it and it is pretty but my quilts are out of reach of the kid and the dogs and the DH. Until I am animal less and maybe DH less my quilts will stay away.
01-01-2010, 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by BellaBoo
They are handquilted-- in a poverty country, and the stitches are running stitches not hand quilted stitches. I can do a king size quilt with running stitches in no time. I think I know the shop in Branson, Dix. You are right, the quilts there are an embarrassment to a quilter. There is one in Hot Springs AR that has machine quilted quilts made in some forsaken country.
I imagine a running stitch to be down one side and up the other in equal increments, is that right? I was at an Amish store the other day and saw these tiny little stitches that made the quilt have texture, but couldn't really see the thread, is this the hand quilted method?
-Charity
01-02-2010, 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Dix
Maybe I have not seen the right quilts at Cracker Barrel, but as a hand quilter, have you looked closely at the stitches in these quilts. They are too big and too far apart. I was asked to leave a shop in Branson where they sold "handcrafted quilts", because I said they were not worth $99.00
I haven't seen the "handcrafted" quilts at the CB that I visit. They have absolutely beautiful machine quilted quilts starting at 99.00
01-02-2010, 08:02 AM
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I have seen the quilts at Cracker Barrell. They are pretty quilts although I did not study the quilting. I read an article several years ago that was investigating child labor in foreign countries. These children starting at 5 or 6 were paid 50 cents a week to quilt. The children worked 8 to 10 hours a day. It was very sad. There was also a big scandel into one of the Amish groups who sent their quilts overseas to be quilted. These were the advertised "Amish quilts" that were $200-$300 in price. That information might still be floating on the web. I have bought inexpensive quilts before I started quilting and when they are washed a few times, the threads start coming apart and I ended up throwing them away. I do have a friend who bought one of these quilts and requilted it and it came out pretty good. I guess the old addage "you pay for what you get" is for real.
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