I recently bought 3 kits with coordinating backs from Connecting Threads...during the 40% off sale in December. Their normal price is $5.96 a yard, but in this sale, it was only $3.58 a yard and included kits too. My small quilting group is making a raffle quilt to raise money for breast cancer research, so we used one of my kits for that. The fabric quality is great, and it is now at the Long arm quilters.

Sue

I like to look at the pictures and dream that maybe I can quilt like that.

I like buying kits as I live a long way from quilt shop...I order online and usually when they are on sale...I don't mind if mine looks like someone else's especially if I love the colour and the design.

I love the kits I purchased from Connecting Threads, plenty of fabric and the patterns have been great.

Sharon

Also, agree love to choose my on fabric too!.

I am doing a block of the month from a LQS. OH my...there is so little fabric in the kit for the month. Just one wrong cut and you would be short of fabric. My friend and I are on the hunt for some of the fabrics in the quilt to have just in case we need it. I don't normally buy kits as so often they short you on fabric.

I want to make Sun Bonnet Sue but am not sure about the applique part. Easy directions please

I love to get a kit and have all the coordinating fabrics together. That is the one thing I lack confidence in, color choice. I also buy yardage all the time too.

Now that is a dilema. The kits make beautiful quilts. But the kit quilts aren't uniquely mine. And when all is said and done what I want is a finished product that is uniquely mine. Anything less than that and I'm not going to be happy with it.

I buy the kits if I like their selection of fabrics. I only have a small LQS so they don't carry alot of the fabric I see in the quilt kits. It also takes all the guess work out of fabric selection which is what I have a problem with.

I make up my own kits - pattern, fabrics and then zip lock them so I have it all together. I am almost done organizing the sewing room and I would hate to guess how many of those zip lock bags I have. Diffidently time to get busy and stop buying...

When I buy yardage, which is most of the time. I do that, too. The owner of my lqs suggested it and it is so worth doing. I always told myself that I would remember the combos that I bought, but with digging, they don't always stay together and my memory isn't what it used to be. Now I put them in the bag and put the pattern with it. If I don't have the pattern I put on the bag what I intended it for.

This is a great idea--then after reserving a little extra for mistakes you can use the remaining fabric to work on scrappy's or table runners etc. Thanks!

I purchase both yardage and kits. The only problem I find with kits is if I want to make it larger when I'm done you don't have any matching fabric to "play" with.

I have only bought two kits and had this happen to me both times. The first time the fabrics were plaid and cut off grain. I was really short on that one. The second one was a Baby Quilt that I am now working on. It called for a 0.25 yd of WOF for 4 - 2 inch strips for the inner borders and I received a fat quarter which ,meant that the border would have multiple pieces which I did not want. Both of these came from top notch LQSs.

I would totally disassemble a kit before I bought another one. Just my 2 cents worth.

I do not use kits. I worry that I will make a mistake cutting the fabric and not be able to find anything that matches to finish it.

I've only purchased two kits and each came with a pattern and the first one was fine. The second one is still in the closet because I can't find or remember what pattern is suppose to go with it. Guess I'll figure out something to do with it. :)

I have always bought by the yard. I like the freedom of choosing my own colors.