NanaCsews2

Perhaps she may be a member of this board, or a lurker, and now knows her work was not acceptable? I replied earlier, and this still bothers me! Not only because I personally cannot nor will not let my work go to anyone without some form of perfectionism, but because she is actually charging for her shoddiness. Her attitude toward her work should not in any way be a reference for future work. If she now knows her work was not up to standards, which should be very high in my opinion, then she may not only be lurking here on the board, but hiding behind closed doors at home. Hopefully, in the meantime she has contacted a professional who can give her many hours of lessons to perfect her craft. Which is what anyone deserves who drops off a quilt and trusts they will get nothing less than beautiful stitches and a design that highlights the intent of their work in creating the quilt in the first place. Thank you for opening up many eyes tezello801. Your post will most certainly bring a lot of attention to both LA quilters and those of us that hand over our hard work to LA quilters to make more beautiful.

marshaKay

graciecat, I agree with you! Did the LA pay you to practice on your quilt? Way too bad. HER BAD!!!! So very sorry. Your quilt is still awesome, by the way. Wash it. It will look 100 percent better. Trust us. Your GD will still love it and you even more for the effort.

cmilton

If she wants to get future business she should offer to take it out, redo or refund your money.

Quilter 65

First of all, I am sad you are so disappointed. It was crushing, I would imagine. I must share an experience with you for which I am more than grateful. I finished my first quilt. I wanted to use a LA novice (not sure how long he has had the machine. He has health issues and is doing this because it will accommodate his health, hopefully). Well, I want 95% of it SID. He paused, pondered, and finally said, this is sure a beautiful quilt. I don't feel I am ready to do this SID yet. I don't want to ruin your quilt. I thanked him graciously and will use his services at sometime in the future. He had one in the frame at the time and it was meander and looked fine. I was grateful at the time, and I am MORE grateful now after reading this post. I have a second quilt at a hand quilter's now. I have seen her work and it was good. I so hope she does as well with this one. It was square when I sent it, so hopefully will be square and beautiful when returned. I have a third one almost done and it was a "see how it goes quilt" in practice for the BIG one and I will be doing it myself probably because I know it is not as nicely done as the first two and I don't want someone talking about my less than best attempts. My heart breaks for you, but having been in college, I have seen how some things are treated. It may serve the purpose well as is.

margecam52

I sent you a private message. This quilt can be saved. What I see is that the person is either very new, or was having a machine issue (probably lack of experience).

Some feel if they have a machine and a Automatic quilt robot...all they will have to do is set the design and walk away...NOT happening! You have to watch the machine...and if you are doing a panto (I don't think she/he was...really feel they had a quilt robot of some kind...thought it was going to do the design automatically, and it's just not that simple).

It took me several years to get to where I felt I was ready to add the Quilt robot (I have a TL18LS w/Qbot)...you need to know how to control the machine before you add any extras.

I get quilts in the mail that are old, torn, come with sheets for backing...and that's fine with me...I also get some beautiful quilts..those I let talk to me before I even load them . Today's "quilt" is a camo sheet w/tan backing. Trees in the forest camo. Customer asked that I put something guyish on it for her grandson to take to college...it's getting "cabin in the woods"...not the name of the design...but what I call it. It's a Mary Covey design. I'll digitize it...cabin, pinetree, bear...repeat. I'll fix it so it nests...or I'll add a connection between the rows.

Some quilter's won't entertain using sheets...but I feel they are no different than a batik fabric, and don't mind using them at all.

Do let the quilter know what the issues are, and the store. Take a pic of the entire quilt (lay it out on a bed). Turn it over and take another pic of the back. My offer to fix it stands.

feline fanatic

I read through this entire thread before commenting. Thank you for posting pics on page 4. This was quite possibly the worst quilting job I have ever seen. But what disturbs me even more than that is the LAQ was proud, excited about the work, thought this was even remotely acceptable. Nobody likes confrontation but please, I beg of you, at the very least write this woman a letter. She needs to know that this work is not acceptable in any way shape or form. And the only way she will improve or even realize that this is unacceptable is if YOU or someone else TELLS her. You must. You will be doing her a favor and other future clients she may have an even bigger favor. And I must add there is no way, absolutely NO way she did not realize those flubs were happening. The duck, the loops the going over the broken threads. I don't agree with Marge, I don't think this was the work of a robotic quilter, this is the work of an inexperienced longarmer wanna be attempting a panto and failing miserably. Some parts were ok and even remotely acceptable but the bad parts are in no way acceptable.
Even if you don't demand a refund, don't demand she rip out, at the very least send her a letter with printouts of the photos you posted here and tell her that this is unacceptable and use this as a valuable lesson to learn to either improve her craft or give it up.
Regarding seeing samples, well I don't have any. Every quilt I have longarmed was either given away as a gift or has been a customer's gone to their home so I don't have any samples to show, only pictures of my work. All of which I have posted here. From my very first scribbles: http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...rm-t54832.html

To this: http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...e-t184706.html
So not all of us can show real "live" samples of our work and I would hope and pray anyone who was not happy with a quilting job I did for them would have the decency to tell me. How would I know if there was a problem if you don't say so?

ckcowl

you should always look at the work of a long-armer before sending her your quilt top- make sure the type of quilting she does is what you like/want- everyone has different ideas of what they like/don't like- and all the different quilters have their own style of quilting. did she do a poor job as in there are puckers/ broken stitches= ect---or is it just not what you like?
if there are actual bad areas---puckers/tucks/ poor stitching areas i would probably consider taking it out (but know that that process is a HUGE process---takes a long time & you risk putting holes in your quilt)
but if there are no such areas & you simply don't like the quilting she chose to do i would not take it out- and show it to others to get some feed back from someone else---maybe you just really expected alot - lay it out & step back---look at it- is it really that bad???

labtechkty

Are the mistakes all over, perhaps you could gently take out the worst of the stiches and maybe stitch over them yourself either by hand or machine...ot could clean up the worst of it...then give it to your neice with a promise of another if she doesn't care for it....

Christine-

That's an excellent suggestion.

I started longarming only last week. Even I can tell by the photos how horrid the quilting turned out. I have my own quilt tops waiting to go but I'm not done practicing. I'm giving myself 3 or 4 months before I attempt my own tops. How awful to disappoint someone like this and especially on their first quilt!

KalamaQuilts

What a disappointment!

It's kind of funny now but it wasn't then, my guild did a stunning pieced and applique top and had a man in the guild offer to do the quilting. . . You really should have seen it.
a few members got together and unstitched it and had someone else do the quilting.