MissM

In Feb DH and I visited the Kansas Troubles Quilt Shop in Bennington, KS. I purchased 2 quilt kits a large and small one, some small wool scraps and one pinking blade for my rotatory cutter. The bill was $200.00+, which is a sizable sum when you are on a fixed income. Sunday I opened the large quilt kit and discovered there was no pattern. These kits are made up by the store staff and tied with twined, with just a paper tag that just has a name of the kit and price on it. So I assumed the pattern had fell out in the store, or was mistakenly omitted. Called.. I am told only the small kits have patterns included, large kits..patterns are sold separately. I say well no one mentioned that when I made the purchase and I assumed it was in the kit; hence the name kit. All other kits I have ever purchased the pattern was included. Robert (store owner) says no that it not a standard practice. However, bottom line he is mailing me a free pattern, so that is a good thing. My question to all of you, do you generally find that when you buy a kit the pattern is included? To me it's not a kit without the pattern.

nativetexan

nope, some kits do not have the pattern. but it should say so and they should also mention it when you are checking out. I'm glad you are getting the pattern soon. Not a good way for them to do business in this day and age!

Doggramma

That happened to me once too. It irritated me that the person checking me out never mentioned that the pattern was sold separately. I buy a lot of kits and the patterns are usually included.

Onebyone

I found it's not the norm to have the pattern included with the kit. If it is included it will say pattern included on the kit label. I always assume it's not and check before buying.

PaperPrincess

At my LQS, the kit usually does not contain the pattern.

garysgal

I have bought lots of kits and usually they contain the pattern. When they don't, they always tell me.

Billi

Unfortunatly some places do that, I think it's a poor practice and don't buy kits from them. Fortunately I'm not one to buy many kits because there is almost always one or more fabrics that I will change.

IrishgalfromNJ

Thanks for this information. I also think that a kit should include the pattern. If the pattern is not included, that information should be noted in big letters right by price so you can see it and it's not a secret.

JenniePenny

So, Beware, of.....? Not checking a large (costly) purchase for its contents for approximately six weeks?

HouseDragon

Once bit, twice shy!

I learned on one of first home leaves from Austria to check the contents of everything (not just quilt kits) as soon as I got back to where we were staying while in the USA.

My lesson? When we got home to Austria ~yes, wouldn't you know!~ the pattern in a quilt kit was missing. In that instance, the big fancy decorated label included the yardage of each fabric and listed the pattern as included. It was several weeks before I had the chance to look through all my loot when we got home: since this was before email existed, I had to make a long distance phone call.

And, you guessed it, the shop was out of the pattern which was designed by a local woman who also created the kits on consignment. That was that!

Hmmmm ..... that reminds me I still have that kit somewhere .......