cheap fabric
cheap labor
cheap product
you get what you pay for
It won't last them many years as a quality quilt

people say the same thing about animal vet care and stuff being to expensive

I was at Kmart the other day and found some "quilts" for sale. They were cheater quilts.

I prefer the ones I make over the store things.

Back when our town had a quild we did retreats and invited the public to come and see us at work. Well, I was working on a $485.00 Thimbleberry Quilt kit the Christmas Village(Bought it from a friend who was starting up a quilt shop and on line store) One lady really liked the quilt and asked me if I sell my quilts. I said yes....she offered me $200. for the one I was working on. After I stopped laughing I told her the price of the fabric. She nearly fainted and I still have the quilt top. hmmm...need to quilt that one.

This is the site where I heard the radio program. You can hear it on a podcast:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2011/se...our-slave-map/

(program about how many things Americans buy that were made by "slave labor"!)
Ambassador at Large, senior advisor to the Secretary of State and director of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Luis CdeBaca, and the president of Slavery Footprint, Justin Dillon, talk about forced labor and measuring a person's slavery "footprint."

These things still exist in this world today!

How sad. Mass produced in China know doubt. There is a YouTube site showing them sewing them one right after the other in sweat shops.

Tell her when the cheap one falls apart to come and see you for the real deal.

The fabric was flimsy and the quilting was VERY minimal. You can see that when it is wrapped around the lady drinking the coffee.

Yes, it does, and even in our own country, as well- we have an upcoming conference in our town addressing human trafficking.

Thanks for the link!

exactly what i noticed

SHAZAM! Perhaps I should stock up on a few of those. If I sold them for half of just the materials cost for one of my regular quilts, I'd have a get-rich-quick scheme going on. :-P

Nope, but I bet it's China where they make cheap fabric and cheap labor! I have Chinese quilts but I use them for everyday, my handmade ones I never let the kids play on or the dogs and cats jump on!