Thread: If you're wondering about pricing your quilts...(Amish Reference)

There's an Amish auction about an hour from me every year to support their local schools. Ove Amish made 100 quilts are auctioned each time. The quilts go from $500 up to around $2200 or so. The more handwork intensive, the more expensive they sell for. This one would definitely have sold for well over $1500. We've one the past three years just to see the quilts and the workmanship. Two years ago, I got two quilts for a really good price at the tail end of the auction. One was a triple Irish chain that I paid $350 for and the other was a little more intricate pieced quilt that I paid $400 for. Both were made with quality LQS quilt fabric. All of the quilts there are handquilted.

Never! That is ridiculous!

Originally Posted by ro

i can't remember what quilting magazine, and it was last year, had an article in it saying people in china, thailand, cant remember exactly where but the quilts for amish are being quilted in these countries and then sent back to usa and being sold as amish made. i wish i could find that article. anyone else remember this article?

It was either in a mag or on one of the tv channels about how behind the Amish were in their handquilting that they were using China or Thailand women to do it. The Amish were trying to make sure that it was the same quality as they were expected to do.