Originally Posted by waladopa
I sent my first quilt top, an oversized king size log cabin, to a relative to quilt. She has a quilting machine and she said she would do it cheap. The problem is, I got what I paid for.
The quilt is ruined unless I rip out everything she did. The quilt is full of puckers.
Does anyone have any advice?
Should I just start ripping?
I don't want to hurt the relatives feelings but I won't be sending her anymore quilts to quilt.
This happened to me a few years ago, with my DD's quilt. I had sent it to a friend that was a LAQ and she did about 2/3s of it, charged me over $350.00 and told me I did a poor job. She had mounted it crooked on the frame and stretched it slightly, leaving puckers all over it. It took many hours to rip it out, I replaced the borders and quilted it on my Janome 6600. I learned a valuable lesson though...you do get what you pay for! It was a frustrating lesson, but, when I was finished, I was proud to give it to my DD, especially because "I quilted it". Good luck and be patient...it takes time. This is a picture of her quilt after I finished it.