Originally Posted by
BoJangles
Chris who commissioned you to make the butterfly quilt a relative/friend? Is it for a baby or little girl with a butterfly room? I love the butterfly applique's you sewed on the quilt. Is that quilt going to be a wall hanging? With the 3-d affect, it would make a beautiful wall hanging in a sun room! I can just picture the warm/bright room filled with butterflies! Great job!
Nancy
Nancy, this was commissioned by a friend from work and I seriously undervalued my time. She basically got the quilt for cost of materials and all the time was a donated by me. That is her idea of a lap quilt as the quilt dimensions are what she gave me to work with. She was thrilled with the final results and didn't balk at the price (which she had done earlier) and realized I had a tremendous amount of time into it but didn't offer to pay me more. I did get half up front and will get the other half in December ~ I hope. My commission price was $100 which was stupid of me to tell her but she kept pressuring me for a final price before I had figured up the cost of all of the materials. I liked the final result but did learn that commission work is not something I will ever do except maybe a table runner or something similar in size. I did play around with some of my stencils on the top because she didn't much care how it was quilted except she didn't want just straight lines or big X's ~ she wanted things (she meant pictures or outlines) quilted onto the quilt.
Chris