Originally Posted by smcbride
What kind of material does one buy to spend $300 or more on a quilt? Everything I buy is on sale at JoAnn especially the batting. Ladies-if you have a Tuesday Morning store,check it out. My daughter and I found 12 pack fat quarters for $7.00-even Batik. Keep on checking.
Anyway, baby quilts costs me around $25-$30 total and a lap quilt $45-50. I use mostly stash fabric that was purchased on sale. Only buy on SALE and build up a stash.
I found that my $350 quilt cost so much because I had found the fabric on eQuilter for $9.50 yd. & just had to try it with a Stack & Whack pattern. I never know how much I'll need in the beginning but I know I have to start with 6 yrds. to get the repeats right.
Then I add an idea so it's back to ordering more. Then I decided to add a wider border of the orig. fabric so you know what that means. I do that to show what the medallions came from. Order more. Cha ching! Oops, then it's backing time. Then it took intricate long arm quilting & that was very pricey. Next thing I knew the cost was up there. The finished pc. was worth it though. You know I'll never give that one away. The matching pillow topper (not shams) really was a great touch.