I'm doing a swap right now with my LA'er. She's giving me $1.00 credit for every 9-patch, from a set of fabric. Neither one of us realized what we were getting into. It's going to be around $200.00. I talked to her yesterday and she was flabbergasted. Apparently she liked this method so much that she has farmed out about 12 quilts. And no money coming in.
I told her not to worry about mine. I'd hold off for a couple of months and give her some time to recover. They just moved into a new (to them) farm house and had to have all of the windows redone before autumn. Plus her husband (a county Sherrif) gets a month vacation, so they take the entire month of July and go Alaska so he and her boys can hunt and fish, and lay in as much meat as they can for the coming year.
So there is a month with no LA'ing.
She is a good friend, so I trust her absolutely.
If you trust this woman, and she buys all the supplies, I say go for it, if you can set a price that you can both be happy with.