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07-31-2011, 05:55 PM

#81

quilter1430

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I'd say that's way too much money to spend. Reading quilting books, watching YouTube videos, and basically just practicing our craft makes a better quilter. I think some people just have money to burn. What in the world could this class offer that's worth that amount of money?

07-31-2011, 08:04 PM

#82

MsEithne

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Originally Posted by capucine

Our LQS is having a 2 days work shop at $450.00 Australian$ for the 2 days with 7 instructors. Am i being tight with my money or do you think it's ok for little bits and pieces of knowledge that i can pick up from QB or utube? I would like to take part but at this price i could take 2 quilts to the quilter and have them finish. Why is it so expensive for a 2 day workshop where nothing is supply, which will have breaks for morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, etc.. not many hours of quilting in between!! What do you think?

Depends on you, your level of experience, the instructors' level of experience and how many other partipants there will be.

When I presented training seminars (not in a quilt related field), my fee for two days was $2000 US + expenses (don't know how that converts into Australian, none of my invitations there ever worked out). I could handle up to 75 participants.

I also figured out that if I could cover X amount of information in two days with 75 participants, I could cover 2X in two days with 30 participants and 4X in two days with 10 participants. Fewer people means fewer questions and more efficient teaching... but obviously, the per person price is less with more people.

I worked those people HARD! Never had any complaints about the amount of information I was trying to cram into two days. When I handed out the schedule the first thing, some people sorta questioned it because there was a half hour break mid-morning and mid-afternoon plus an hour and a half for lunch. I'd learned from experience that people needed regular breaks to stop concentrating and let all the new information settle into their minds.

So I think you need to find out more about what will be covered in the different presentations, how experienced the presenters are and how many other participants will be present.

07-31-2011, 08:15 PM

#83

MsEithne

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Originally Posted by k3n

I WILL say that I recently did a one day advanced FMQ workshop with around 7 other ladies given by Ferret who is an English award-winning quilter, (certainly in the same bracket as Sharon Schambers and co) and that cost me £32 which equates to $41 Australian... :-D

WOW, that's a total of 256 pounds for a day of instructing. I wonder how much the overhead was? And even without any overhead, that's seriously underpriced instruction, IMHO. That's not much more than an insured and bonded house cleaner charges ($25 US per hour in these parts). I would never deny that housecleaning requires a variety of skills but on the same level as FMQ?

08-01-2011, 02:01 AM

#84

Annya

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Originally Posted by katesnanna

I think that is far too much.
I'm an Aussie and no way would I fork out that much for any workshop and then have to supply everything myself.

I agree that is way too much. I am also Australian and could never afford that. Is there some other way to do a workshop for 2 days and get the same amount of experience. Are the instructors coming from overseas or some thing?