Need help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !
#31
The price she quoted was for the whole quilt not just part. I would have paid her part of the quote. If she finished 1/2 then only pay 1/2. She will not have a very good reputation and I hope she doesn't do this for a living.
#33
Wow Thanks Hinterland for that wonderful link...One could either use the tutorials for machine quilting or longarm freehand...woohoo. As for the longarmer not finishing the quilt, like it has been mentioned before, she should have turned the quilt on her frame.
#34
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 215
She should not have charged you more, in fact, she should have refunded you something, and or, better...just not started it. Sometimes you get a better reputation by refusing stuff you can not do than by attempting things you can't.
I wonder if you couldn't take it to a LQS and do the long arm yourself? We have a few places in Orlando that will let you work on something and give you a lesson at the same time....
AND...since I live in Florida, and am making a Calif. King size quilt...I would like you to please PM the ladys name. I wont make it Public, but I wont use her. MY Goodness, Bad service.
I wonder if you couldn't take it to a LQS and do the long arm yourself? We have a few places in Orlando that will let you work on something and give you a lesson at the same time....
AND...since I live in Florida, and am making a Calif. King size quilt...I would like you to please PM the ladys name. I wont make it Public, but I wont use her. MY Goodness, Bad service.
#36
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: West Virginia
Posts: 988
If it is not out of your way, you need to stand up to this lady. Take your quilt with you when you go to talk to her. Tell her firmly but nicely that you had paid the agreed price and that she did not have the right to demand more money from you. Tell her you need the $50. back, and that she needs to finish the quilt or refund the rest of your money. Tell her that the two of you had a verbal contract. If you don't confront her, she'll do it again. Perhaps you're not the first one she's done it to. She can quilt an oversize quilt on her frame. It takes a little more effort and you do have to turn the quilt a lot, but it can be successfully done. You select the top edge and one of the corners and follow that corner down it's side. On the opposite side you let the quilt top
drop off the inside edge, and you clamp throught the double layer of the quilt sandwich. You continue to quilt like this until upu get to the bottom. You unpin the top and bottom and slide the quilt over to where the remaing top corner is in the quilting area along with the top edge. You repin, allow the excess quilt on the other side to drop off. You can clamp through a double layer of quilt sandwich, and start quilting where you left off and continue down the length and side of the quilt till you get to the bottom. :?:
drop off the inside edge, and you clamp throught the double layer of the quilt sandwich. You continue to quilt like this until upu get to the bottom. You unpin the top and bottom and slide the quilt over to where the remaing top corner is in the quilting area along with the top edge. You repin, allow the excess quilt on the other side to drop off. You can clamp through a double layer of quilt sandwich, and start quilting where you left off and continue down the length and side of the quilt till you get to the bottom. :?:
#37
I agree, she quoted you a price and if she couldn't do it, she shouldn't have started. In addition, she shouldn't have charged you the extra money without contacting you first to explain that it would cost more and you agreed to it.
Good luck in getting it finished. The LQS idea is good. A quilt that large would be hard to finish by hand without a group as someone else said.
Good luck in getting it finished. The LQS idea is good. A quilt that large would be hard to finish by hand without a group as someone else said.
#40
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,143
Why in the heck cant she finish it. She took it and gave you a price, She needs to finish it.. And charging you more when she didnt finish it.. No Way.. Dont pay her. Pay when the job is done... So sorry this has happend to you.
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