I'm out of sorts!
 

I've been using this longarm quilter for several years with no problems,
but I sat down to attach the binding and look what I saw. Trimmed down to the points rather than 1/4" allowance.
Maybe I have too much time on my hands if I'm cross about it...but...rats.

I would be more than "cross"!!!!!

Oh how frustrating! All your hard work and accuracy is lost along the edges.
Wellll, they say only God is perfect. Your perfect edges were trimmed down as a simple of your humility. =)
Just trying to make light of it, sweetie. I know you are not happy about it.
((((( hugs )))))

Donna Mc

That is not acceptable. I would atleast talk to her.

OMG .... I really feel for you on this.
After all your hard work and to have it totally ruined.
Sadly not much can be done at this point to fix all those missing points.

Don't let it go by the way ... if close enough drive right back and discuss IRL.
Otherwise, call and find out what and why.
At the least, her FMQing should be rebated to you.
However, there is a huge loss in the fabric costs and your labour.

..... talk to her and see what can be worked out.
Good Luck!

Maybe she was trying to square up the quilt? She should of called you first.

why would she trim it in the first place? she wasn't going to bind it. ask her. hopefully she will have a good answer, otherwise, find another long armer. Go ahead and finish it, it will not look that bad. it just frustrating.

Oh Dear!

Why would the points be cut off? Oh my!

I am thinking some one in her family helped her.... maybe.

Although the points are indeed cut off, this lovely quilt is definitely not ruined. Unless you planned to have it judged, just finish it up and enjoy it or gift it whatever your plan was. Blunt points are not the worse thing, especially if they all are. Then it becomes a design element!
Please do contact the longarmer as she has done satisfactory work for you in the past.

it isn't ruined, I know that. And I'm over it now. But I haven't shown quilts since the 90s and I had thought to put this one in a show this fall. Serves me right for being prideful. I'm 1/2 way around now so only 190" to go.

I saw a piece on youtube about Missouri Quilt Co, the owner was showing the quilts on their machines and she said she has three women employed full time doing binding. All of them can do 2 queens and 1 king in a day! They will never hire me, I'm the turtle when it comes to binding.
And on the other side of this quilt is another top, and it doesn't have any points on the edges :) Looks fine bound.!

thanks for the commiseries

This is unacceptable. Did you ask her to trim it? Not only the triangle points, but the entire design is altered at the edge. In your photo you can see the parallelogram at the edge is much narrower than one inside the quilt. I would definitely ask for my long arming fee back.

I would never trust someone else to trim my quilts.

This is the very reason that I never trim the quilts I quilt for clients. They trim their own. I am so sorry but for what it is worth all will be well. The quilt is beautiful.

I feel terrible for you. I still love the quilt though. It's beautiful.

This is what I was thinking too but the pattern should take precedence over the squaring up or she should have left all or some of the border on for the quilter to decide what to do.

Is it possible that she trimmed from "the other side" quilt and didn't realize points were cut off?

Yes, this!

I instruct my LA'er to not trim. I do that myself for this very reason. That sucks beg time! It's still gorgeous and likely no one will notice but a I get it totally...

I had one quilt long-armed and the quilter trimmed the quilt to the edge - on the pillow shams - that did not matter - she left two inches of batting and backing!

What was done to your quilt was a screw-up - not life threatening, but extremely - polite vocabulary fails me.

KalamaQuilts, I admire your forbearing attitude. If that's the quilt I think it is, it is a masterpiece and should have been handled with utmost care. I just don't understand what she could have been thinking. Maybe she is out of sorts and should take a break until she is back with it.

Oh, how disappointing (or should I say dis-pointing?). I don't think I would have gotten over it as quickly as you have. Especially not a quilt I had considered showing. The LA made a very careless mistake, and I think you have every right to ask for all your money back. It could've been an honest mistake (as someone suggested maybe she trimmed from the reverse side ?) but she should compensate you for her mistake.

The quilt is really pretty, as are all your quilts. I envy your skill and patience.

I think the word you want is "FUBARed." (Note to the mods -- that's an acronym, not shouting.)

Kalama- I’m sorry this happened to your quilt. It seems to me that the long armer made a serious mistake here and needs to know about it, otherwise it may happen to someone else’s quilt. I’d want a refund if it was my quilt.


Rob

Words fail me. Maybe a rebate on your next quilt is in order. I love the quilt, even minus the points.

I would be more than out of sorts and she would hear about it in no uncertain terms.

What a shame...I agree with Rob, if you don’t bring it to her attention, it could happen to someone else. I wonder what was going through her mind?

My friend sent her quilt to a longarmer one time and she cut off the scallops!! My friend had worked so hard to get the scallops the right size for the size of the quilt. She cried when it came back.

I tell my long-arm quilters NOT to trim. I do it myself. Cause I always had that possible problem in my mind.
Sorry that happened

First of all, you should be proud of that quilt & there is no way this ‘serves you right’. Why is it wrong to be proud of our beautiful creations?!? It also isn’t ruined. As one who has trouble keeping points, I agree with your frustration at losing the edge points to someone else’s mistake. Others have given you good advice as to the best way to handle this with the LA, which I’m not qualified to do. I’ve never had a quilt LA’d.

I think that LA should be responsible for the total cost of your quilt. After all, she is a professional and you had reason to trust her with your quilt. I was in a custom drapery business for many years and felt strongly that I needed to make any mistakes I made right with the customer. And, over the years, I did "eat" the replacement cost because of my error. That wasn't a good thing for me but I could face the customer and my reputation was not harmed.

Has the LAer ever trimmed your Quilts before? I would definitely make her/him aware of this situation and see what the response is-if not to your satisfaction, time to seek out a new LAer. Actually, from the pic, being a kind of scrappy design, not as noticeable as if it were a color coordinated design. Put it in the show you were planning to, you never know, may not be noticed! Definitely make sure No Trimming is specified the next time!

I draw a card each morning which gives me something to chew over through the day. Today's card is Judgement.
Like you, I've already thought of many reasons this might have happened.

I'm no longer cross about the trimming.
But one thing I'm really big on for myself, is owning our actions, taking responsibility.
I won't be going back because she did not own up to what occurred. That is what I'm mad about. Which puts me right back in Judgement mode :) and I'm not going there.

Really, it is all right!

I don't know how much it would affect your final design, but would it be possible to take off those outside blocks altogether? It would give you a smaller quilt, yes, but one that didn't show such a major error. Or perhaps take them off and remake them?

Several things come to mind. First, you have every right to be upset. Second, why would she trim it at all. Third, had she trimmed your quilts in the past. Fourth, did she have someone helping her that didn't know. Fifth, will she compensate you in some way. But, for you, it will be ok because it will be the same for all sides, so it will look like you did it on purpose. Only you will notice it. BTW - nice looking quilt, looks like the kind of quilt you just want to snuggle under in front of a fire with a good book!

I too would be more than cross and would want some form of compensation!

All is not lost. Attach a thin row of piping and proceed with attaching the binding. I just had to 'fix' a quilt doing this very trick last week.

when I do longarm quilting for anyone I do not trim the quilt I let that up to them

I don't quilt for others often but when it comes off the frame I call them to come over to trim it on my cutting table as I have a 4 x 8 table. Rather they make the mistake instead of me. I usually try to keep at least a 1/4" from any points when cutting though. So sorry this happened to you.

you guys have my little grey cells burbling.
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IceLoepard said: I don't know how much it would affect your final design, but would it be possible to take off those outside blocks altogether? It would give you a smaller quilt, yes, but one that didn't show such a major error. Or perhaps take them off and remake them?
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This idea made my stomach hurt. But it did make me start thinking. Thank you
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KwiltyKathy said:
My friend sent her quilt to a longarmer one time and she cut off the scallops!! My friend had worked so hard to get the scallops the right size for the size of the quilt. She cried when it came back.
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While I did my yoga your thought popped another thought in my mind. I did a reverse scallop on my DJ quilt.
I wouldn't be losing any size, I wouldn't be 're-doing' anything. I wouldn't be wasting the binding already cut because it still wouldn't need bias binding.
And the points on the quilt side would show and the cutoff outside would be covered over.

I'm going up to take off the binding already sewn. And sweat bullets that I have some reproduction that is big enough to do at least a 3" reverse scallop. I am not buying fabric...picture that all in caps ;)

thank you again for all the suggestions. And I don't think the quilter and I have ever talked trimming. They all have come home, perfect and ready for binding with a full seam allowance, just like I sent them to her.