An acquaintance of mine has been asked to make the quilt featured in a Quiltmaker magazine and wants me to help her since she does not have an embroidery machine. I have only seen the pics online and I do not know the exact stitch count, but there is a lot of embroidery showing in the pic. This is a gorgeous quilt, but it looks extremely labor intensive to me. I am going to decline doing the embroidery as I do not have a business, just a hobby. She told me she was going to quote a price of $500 and asked my opinion. I told her she would have to charge at least $1000 to make a small profit. Without knowing the exact stitch count, I am guessing it is going to cost close to $500 for the embroidery alone. I think this is a lovey quilt to make as a gift for a family member or dear friend, but not for sale.
What is your opinion, maybe I am wrong??????
http://www.quiltmaker.com/articles/5_Little_Monkeys

I just order the designs and the magazine to make it for my son. There seems to be a lot of embroidery to sew out so it would take a while. As for pricing, I have no comment. I normally don't sell my quilt. They usually have a way of walking out of my house and into my family and friends's house.
Good luck. :-P

Lulu,
I think it is s gorgeous quilt, looking forward to seeing your pics.

Perhaps you could contact the digitizer for stitch count info. the designs are available on Oregonpatchworks.
[http://www.oregonpatchworks.com/item...5841&pid=62085]

That's an adorable quilt. It is a lot of stitching!!!!

I've seen it and it is a great quilt. I can't imagine making it for sale though.

It's a cute pattern. One of my friends did this quilt and had problems with the embroidery puckering. She never did get it to sew out right. I think that the trouble that she had was because of her choice of fabric. So, it might be a good idea to try a stitch out of the pattern before committing to the fabric.

That is an adorable quilt, but an expensive one to make. There are quite a few embroideries, and machine appliques. I don't think I would consider making this quilt for the purpose of selling it. I think your estimates are pretty close. It would be expensive to have this quilt quilted by a longarm quilter, because it would require a custom job working around the many embroideries.

There have been countless threads on this board about how the general public just aren't willing to spend their money for a quilt when there are cheap alternatives at chain stores.

The quilt in my avatar is all machine appliqued. There are 50 appliques in this twin sized quilt. I can't even begin to tell you how many hours, and how much stabilizer went into it. I made it for my Mom.

The quilt is adorable but is probably one that should only be made as a work of love for a special child.

Thank you all for you responses!!! I fully agree that it is a lovely quilt and will make a wonderfull gift. I want one myself lol!!!!
The lady is a person that I do not see very often and doesn't embroider so I felt she was 'kind of sort of' doubting my opinion of the cost.
I embroider and quilt as a hobby so I referred her to a good friend that has a commercial embroidery shop.
My friend told her the exact same thing, way too labor intensive to make and try to sell for profit.
Janet, on the 'auction' program a man bought in a gorgeous hand appliqued on wool quilt his grandmother had made. Beautiful and well cared for, appraised at $10,000. Sounds like a lot to a person that doesn't do hand work lol!!! We know better. Yours is beautiful too!

I have no idea of the cost involved to make the quilt either, but I absolutely love this quilt. I made one for a friend of ours expecting their first grandchild, and my husband is always after me to do these for baby gifts, but I think it probably cost way more than I realize!

I modified mine a bit.

The designs aren't well done, they are extremely dense and I don't believe you CAN stabalize them enough to make them lay flat.

CJ you did an amazing job!!!!!!!! I want one for myself!
I agree it prob cost quit a bit in your time. With my Brother PE it would take me forever.
But I do love the quilt too.

Obviously since she doesn't have an embroidery machine she has no idea how labor intensive and expensive it can be to machine embroider, and there's a lot of embroidery there. Seems a bit nervy for her to ask you to help, was she going to pay for your time, stabilizer, thread and machine?

Even at $1000 there won't be much profit. It's a beautiful quilt, but I can't imagine making it for anyone other than a very special family member.

I wonder if you would be more successful at getting the designs to lay right if you assembled the entire quilt to the sandwich point and then added the embroidery? I find that batting makes an awesome stabilzer.

I've seen the little monkeys on fabric, I think I'd fussy cut and appliqué them on the quilt.

No, it doesn't help. I did a 2nd quilt that, way, assembled the top, spray basted it to my batting, and then embroidered it. I think it turned out worse, if I do another, I will embroidery the blocks first, assemble the quilt and then quilt it, like I did the first one.

I love this quilt...I have the embroidery files and the pattern..but have not made one yet...But...I will

It is just too cute!!!

I love the monkeys. I found a panel with the a story about 5 funky monkeys jumping on the bed and cut out the sections and made a quilt top.

that is too cute!

Hi, where did you get the monkey print for your quilt. Its just what my granddaughter wants. I would love to order some.
Margaret

well, as seems to be the case whenever you find something you really want, the panel I cut up to make this quilt and the coordinating fabrics I used were all the rage probably 5 years ago, although I did see some of the fabrics resurface at my LQS. I would do a websearch for funky monkeys and sock monkeys to try and find any available prints.

The backer for this quilt is a flannel monkey print. It's looking for a home if you're interested.

Funky Monkey is a Moda Basic print, meaning it's always available, just like Moda Marbles or Bella Solids.

Good to know!!

The monkey quilts are just too cute!

Did you try running the designs through Density works? I believe you can take out stitches...hopefully enough so that a cutaway stabilizer with help with the puckering... Let me know what you think?

Janet, you are so right. I made this quilt for my grandson. It was a labor of love that took me quite a while to do. It was probably the prettiest quilt that I have ever made. Sadly, my little grandson told me this week that his Mom (DIL) sold it at a yard sale recently. I am so sad because I worked very hard and hoped this would be handed down for generations. I don't even want to ask if it was really sold at a yard sale, either way I know he doesn't know where it is. Wish I would have kept it here at my home for him.