Originally Posted by
mckwilter
Shelley, the parts in italics are my internal musings, not something I would ever say to a friend, but I thought they needed to be inserted so everyone would know the reasoning behind my "rules". You don't say where "here" is, but fabric is getting more expensive every time I take a trip to the LQS, which is why I am more and more buying sale fabrics from on-line vendors.
Several people have asked IF I will make a quilt, and when I tell them "No.", they want to know why. So I tell them, "Quilting is my method of having fun and relaxing; if I quilted for money, it would become a job, and would no longer be fun and relaxing."
Mckwilter, I think your points are completely realistic and valid - and I know it is what we think but wouldn't necessarily say exactly. I simply changed it in a way that I think reflects a reasonable position for doing unsolicited quilts. Your points made sense to me.
on a slightly different note, I would tell newbies that when you buy batting and use only bits of it, label the rest. I've just completed most of a quilt, but I cannot recall for the life of me what the batting is exactly (having used some of the batting for another project). Some of the quilting is about 4" apart. Is that too wide? Dang. I have no idea. So label your leftover batting!