$70 bucks a month! Seriously!
06-03-2012, 07:58 AM
#51
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Desert Southwest
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Good one! Might as well at that price. Are they kidding? $420 to spend hours and hours piecing...and who knows how much to have it quilted??? Please. In most of the threads i read we're all happy to have wal mart selling fabric again. However, for those that want and can get kits like this, enjoy!
06-03-2012, 08:35 AM
#53
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Aloha, Oregon
Posts: 421
Clubs and kits have gotten so expensive! The last time I did a Thimbleberries Club, the shop charged us $5 just for being there for the meeting each month - an additional $60 to the cost of the top - I decided to pick up my monthly kit the next day and saved myself $60! We also had issues about getting enough fabric in our kits to do the blocks - if we prewashed our fabric we didn't have enough - they cut it so close because they were having difficulties getting the fabric. All in all, if you counted the fabric we were supposed to get and what we actually got, we were short a couple of yards - no problem for me, I was able to get all my blocks from scraps and some close cutting but they should have given us a break on the cost since I felt I paid for that yardage.
06-03-2012, 08:35 AM
#54
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Front row
Posts: 14,646
Originally Posted by Stitchit123 
WOW---to much for my pocketbook.$420 plus tax and S&H -thats a house payment
A HOUSE payment??? Really?!?!? Wow, I'd love to trade house payments with you!
That's a great house payment. That's less then my electric bill!
06-03-2012, 08:58 AM
#56
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Pacific Northwest
Posts: 85
You're all being pretty hard on Keepsake Quilting for their price on this kit ($420), but they certainly aren't charging the highest price for it. They are the only one offering pre-cut, pre-fused pieces for the whole thing, however, and thats a lot of labor for 17 blocks plus the border details. It's out there other places at $504 for just the fabrics and patterns, but it can also be found for $250, so a very large range. I think KQ is being quite reasonable considering what you get for the money.
06-03-2012, 09:14 AM
#57
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 353
I went in to a LQS, looked at prices, left and went to Salvation Army. Found all the material I needed (clothing) to add what is to go on my wall hanging, $1.10, compared to abut $15 at the shop. They all seem to have forgotten the economy is bad. The lady at the shop was complaining that sales were terrible. Well, DUH? Her cheapest cotton bolts were $10.99. If I had to pay that, I'd have to quit buying fabric, period.
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