ptquilts

I f you assigned dollar costs to the materials but not to your labor, she might have thought you were not charging for your time. Sometimes it is just miscommunication. Remember Hanlon's Razor - "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

ptquilts

That must be why she gets the big bucks. I can barely tell one WOW fabric from another unless I am right next to them. All I could picture was a sea of white.

Jo Anne B.

Good one! Gave me a good laugh!

maviskw

I used my magic wand to make a baby quilt for my great-grandson. The poor kid was already a year old, and when I heard I was invited to his first birthday party, next Friday, I whipped up a disappearing 9-patch with MSQC I-spy squares in all the corners. I got it done! Looks real cute.

Jo Anne B.

Last Fall I had a lunch with a GF, I had driven to her small town about 30 min. from me. Thought I'd stop at he local shop for a yard of flannel. This friend went on to buy over $100 for a pattern and fabric, I am being confused she is a non-quilter... on the way back to the car she announces we could quilt for an hour on Wednesday's at her house. I thought my head was going to fall off my shoulders. When I claimed "no we would do this at my house, it was just wasn't worth it for me to spend 30 min. packing my car, the 30 min. drive for an hour of sewing.
She now wants to gift me the the goods.

rryder

If you donate a quilt to charity you can deduct the cost of the materials used if you have receipts. You cannot deduct anything for your time. If you are a professional who regularly sells quilts for many thousands of dollars you can still only deduct the amount that you spent for the materials in that specific quilt. This is something that artists have been fighting for many years. As a fine artist and jeweler I often get asked to donate paintings or jewelry to various charity auctions for which I can only deduct the cost of materials even if they raised much more than that in the auction. At this point I'd rather just donate money and take the deduction unless it's for a cause that is very important to me.

Rob

Jo Anne B.

I had 2 baby/toddler quilts that I sold to a HS classmate for a couple of his Grkids. Well they were a big, huge hit. He promptly put in his order for 2 Spiderman quilts I said sure when I get around to it, OH NO he wanted, needed and had to have these for Christmas. I got it done and it only cost him a friendship.

AZ Jane

Excellent point!! I have no problem saying no.

deedum

A few years back I was asked to donate a quilt to a silent auction. My friend agreed to donate one small as well. So I got busy and made a nice block of the month oversized lap quilt. Quilted it myself, my friend sent hers to a longarmer.We donated both quilts, although it was a good turnout, people wanted stuff for nothing, highest bid on either quilt was $20. My dh seen this and he placed a high bid on both of them and bought them back for us. He was not going to let them go for pennies. He was so insulted, as he has seen how long it takes me to make one and seen the receipts as well. Learned a lesson there.

Onebyone

There is only one answer that will put a stop to every request. It's simple and to the point. Say:
No, I don't want to. It works for every request, every time. If someone doesn't think twice about putting me on the spot I have fun saying No I don't want to. It's worth it to see the expression on their faces, You don't want to do something I wanted you to do for me???