Originally Posted by roselady
I just got my quilt back from the quilters, and I am so disappointed in it. It's not that it wasn't done well, it's just that it was the first time I've had a quilt machine quilted. I have always hand quilted my quilts. I knew that I wanted this quilt done sooner than I could hand quilt it, so I chose this route. The pattern I chose just isn't very nice looking in certain parts of the quilt. I know there is nothing I can do about it now, I just wonder if this has ever happened to any of you.
Holy smokes, yes!!! I had a queen sized quilt I had made as a wedding gift but went through a divorce and decided not to give it to my ex-husband's niece. (I would have but she wouldn't speak to me, except to demand I finish and give her the quilt. Pbbtt!) Instead I took it to a quilt shop and had them quilt it. It cost me about $200. The fabric is a gorgeous purple wisteria outlined in gold and the complimentary fabric is a gentle green with goldish veins. I wanted something that would show off the gold quilting, explaining that this was meant as a wedding quilt & I wanted the quilting to reflect that. What I got back was horrible, horrible, horrible! The gal had done these insipid daisies all over the quilt like some kind of meandering gone wrong. To make it worse, she did it in yellow and bright orange varigated thread. OMG!!! Now when I ask people if they see any gold and they look at me as if I've lost my mind. If it had been for something else, say a child's quilt, it would be fine, but it was so far from what I wanted that I simply hate the quilt. I let guests use it and many of my family has tried to lift it from me to keep, but I'm so disgusted by how it turned out that I can't gift it to anyone and I certainly don't want it anywhere near my bed!