b.zang

The pattern is "Rainbow Crystal", available at Quiltworx. The finished size is 90x90. The quilt was hanging in a quilt shop I found on a trip and I had left my phone on the cutting table while fetching more fabric and my daughter took a picture of the quilt without my knowledge. About a week later she pointed it out in my photos. The shop did not have it as a kit but were kind enough to put everything together and mail it to me. I forgot to ask the price ahead of time but it all came in a big box and the pattern is thick. I'll see if I can attach a picture and you can read about it at
https://www.quiltworx.com/patterns/rainbow-crystal/

bearisgray

That looks very challenging!

Onebyone

I bought a Judy Neidermeyer wall hanging size kit and took the class to make it. I did it her way in class but finished the quilt the old fashion Carol Doak way at home. Her way made no sense to me at all, wasted too much time. Her patterns can be made using the basic paper piecing way. I bought a few extra fat quarters to finish in case I used more, but didn't need much. I have lots of Connecting Threads kits bought over the years and so far everyone has much more fabric than I need. I haven't bought one since the company was sold so don't know the kits are now. My last kit was a Kaffe Fasset kit from Missouri Star and I had lots of leftover fabric.

dunster

b.zang, the Rainbow Crystal pattern is really beautiful. I hope you will start it soon, and I'm sure you can make it successfully. I also hope that was $750CAD, not USD!

Bigbutte

the kit I purchased was not from Judy Neidermeyer she up in Kalispell. I don't want to tell the name of the quilt shop.

peaceandjoy

The source for kits definitely makes a difference. I don't buy a lot of them - large stash and don't want look alike quilts - but once in a while something catches my eye and I really do want it to be JUST like that one.

I have found those from Fat Quarter Shop to be pretty generous.

Some designers and shops offer "oopsie" bundles in case of cutting error. Of course, that's more $, and hard to justify a bunch of FQs if you make an error cutting one. If you make it when the kit comes out, I'd pass on those and, if you do need more of something, look online for whatever you are short of. If it has languished in your stash, you'll have to find something to substitute.

A very well known fabric designer does a BOM for every line she comes out with, shipping them from her own business. In 2024, several of us found ourselves short of one of the fabrics for the 3rd (I think) month. She was quite short with her response, saying it was impossible. It really turned me off, but I still love her fabrics. Enough so that I've signed up for another next year.

Long ago, I found out the hard way that you should always cut the largest piece first, regardless of whether or not that is "Piece A" or "Piece F" of a given fabric. I'd always cut them in order, and that doesn't always work. You can get those smaller pieces from scraps of what you have, but not so much getting the large ones from leftover strips!

Onebyone

She was quite short with her response, saying it was impossible.

Insisting several customers with the same complaint are wrong and trying to cheat for a tad little fabric piece? How money hungry!

Bigbutte

Okay here is what I learned when you buy a kit that has subject matter in the fabric designs and the quilt store tells you they optimize the fabric you first thing you cannot do is wash the fabric second when you press it watch for fabric distortion . And yes you will need more fabric and when you show them the pattern directions mistakes they just tell you they will check the pattern maker for the corrections also a big give away when all the fabrics have been changed. It seems that these quilt shops that make up these pre cut kits use what ever fabric they have that does not move fast , ie like seasonal patterns. I think these quilt shops can tell when a person that comes in if they no idea about quilting. I have attached the quilt kit and the original fabric list for your review.

bearisgray

I think it's very misleading when the fabrics in the kit do not match the cover picture.

I now know/realize that some prints are only svailable in lomited quantities for a very short time. It took me a long time to learn that.

peaceandjoy

That's what I thought. Well, not even about the money, but indignant that a mistake could not have been made on their end. If it had been only me having the problem, then it would be pretty likely that I had cut incorrectly - but there were several. Well, I guess I've moved on. If I didn't love her fabrics, I wouldn't consider doing another. Her BOM patterns are exclusive to the program, so unless you find someone selling them after the fact (and usually at a crazy price for a pattern), it's the only way to get them.