Originally Posted by capucine
Our LQS is having a 2 days work shop at $450.00 Australian$ for the 2 days with 7 instructors. Am i being tight with my money or do you think it's ok for little bits and pieces of knowledge that i can pick up from QB or utube? I would like to take part but at this price i could take 2 quilts to the quilter and have them finish. Why is it so expensive for a 2 day workshop where nothing is supply, which will have breaks for morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, etc.. not many hours of quilting in between!! What do you think?
Depends on you, your level of experience, the instructors' level of experience and how many other partipants there will be.
When I presented training seminars (not in a quilt related field), my fee for two days was $2000 US + expenses (don't know how that converts into Australian, none of my invitations there ever worked out). I could handle up to 75 participants.
I also figured out that if I could cover X amount of information in two days with 75 participants, I could cover 2X in two days with 30 participants and 4X in two days with 10 participants. Fewer people means fewer questions and more efficient teaching... but obviously, the per person price is less with more people.
I worked those people HARD! Never had any complaints about the amount of information I was trying to cram into two days. When I handed out the schedule the first thing, some people sorta questioned it because there was a half hour break mid-morning and mid-afternoon plus an hour and a half for lunch. I'd learned from experience that people needed regular breaks to stop concentrating and let all the new information settle into their minds.
So I think you need to find out more about what will be covered in the different presentations, how experienced the presenters are and how many other participants will be present.