Originally Posted by
quiltingcandy
You really dodged the bullet on this one. There is no way she is going to be happy. I have an antique bed - even have the metal box springs from 1860's. (The feather mattress is long gone - it had more lumps so sleeping on it was like sleeping outside on rocks.). I can't imagine why she has it so high. Sounds like she will need a King size quilt to cover that much mattress, but feathers settle, so that will alter what she wants. It's just sounds like she is asking the impossible.
I so agree. She doesn't really know if what she wants is even possible and will never be happy. I don't make quilts for others to spec either. I make them, if they come out good and look like something someone I know will like. I give it to them. Makes me life so much easier.