quiltlady

I have made quilts for co-workers but like other have said here its for special occasions that I enjoyed making it as a gift of love from me. It is not my business.

When asked at work about making quilts on order, I just tell people it's my therapy for the stress from work. If they want to pay me the cost of my therapy @ $80/hour (who could find a therapist at that cost!) I would be happy to make them one, they usually just laugh and walk away.

My family also knows it's my "therapy" so don't ask but are always excited if I make them one.

We all hope that the quilts we give will be treated well and people will cherish them. Unfortunetely we can't control what happens after they leave our sewing rooms and shouldn't fret about it. We made and gave them with love. A young child who loves (carries/drags all over) their quilt until it falls apart we don't get upset about but a quilt that is left folded on a shelf unused we feel unappreciated for- why is that? It is out of our control how it ends up - we need to let it go. Just need to accept that we enjoyed the process and the giving. Keep the extra special ones for ourselves.

mom-6

I had started a quilt for the daughter of my son's girlfriend. Unfortunately it just didn't work out like I was wanting it to and then daughter decided she had a new favorite color, etc. so she never got one although her brother got one early on in my quilting learning stages. Now daughter has designed one on my Quilt Wizard program that is super complicated. We had talked about her coming over and picking out fabriccs, although she wanted to use the ones in the quilt I was working on when we talked, which I have some left of, but not enough to do a whole quilt. Until she comes over and picks out fabric I'm not starting her quilt, end of story...

jojo47

It's been interesting reading this thread. Several years ago I had taken a Turning Twenty quilt top to work for 'show and tell'. One of the staff there wanted me to make a quilt for her in (most of) the same colors, and added 'But I want to see it first" (as in see it before accepting/paying for it). I told her to go to our LQS, pick out 20 FQ's (the number needed for said quilt) as well as the batting and backing required and I would make a quilt for her. Nope, she never did go and choose any fabric. Plus, if I HAD made a quilt for her, I would have requested payment up front...in cash...before parting with the quilt. Crass? Maybe...but she had a reputation for not paying for things she sometimes ordered from others....Sad.