Our chruch group raffles a quilt every year. The quilters have gotten older and are getting tired, not to mention several of them have health problems in the family. So they are kaput! I'm doing my best to get a queen quilt done for summer. A very simple snowball pattern, a few blocks embrodiered by a 90+ year old. I've picked the fabrics and design, doing most of the piecing and I mentioned at a recent meeting that I was going to see about having it machine quilted since I HATE HAND QUILTING. After about 3 of them sucked all the air out of the room, one declared there was no way our group was going to have machine quilted quilt--------------"you can get those at Wal-Mart for $39.95!".
I haven't told them yet, but since I'm doing most of the putting together I'm going to be chosing a machine quilter to finish the quilt off.
$39.95, indeed. I've got more than that in just the backing.
(this quilt is very simple, but pretty, I think. I just get side tracked on all sorts of other stuff to do! May be ready to send out by the end of the week)