Trade for quilting
#12
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 559
My gut reaction after reading this is, don't. Trading is my least favorite way of bargaining. I had a policy not to trade in the antique business. On the rare occasion I did trade, I was sorely disappointed.
#13
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Small town in Northeast Oregon close to Washington and Idaho
Posts: 2,795
I don't see why you can't make a trade with her. I think she will owe you a few more hours than what you'll owe her. My DMIL does taxes and barters with plumbers, painters, carpet layers, etc. It works out well for all involved. I think it's a nifty thing to do.
She wants a quilt and you want personal training. I paid $25 an hour for personal training where I live. I would have swapped for a quilt in a heartbeat. I think it's a great idea! Go for it!!!
She wants a quilt and you want personal training. I paid $25 an hour for personal training where I live. I would have swapped for a quilt in a heartbeat. I think it's a great idea! Go for it!!!
#15
Junior Member
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 183
Well an agreement will be met before any trading actually takes place. But I have traded knitting for hair coloring/cut before and was quite happy about it. This is a girl I've known for 22 years and she is an amazing trainer! I don't have money to pay a trainer, but I do have time to quilt. Thank you for the concerns raised and advise given though. I think you are right it'll probably come out to more than 8 hours. She just wants a couple crib quilts though, and that is my favorite size! :-) I think we can make this work.
#19
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Far NW
Posts: 211
I'm doing a swap right now with my LA'er. She's giving me $1.00 credit for every 9-patch, from a set of fabric. Neither one of us realized what we were getting into. It's going to be around $200.00. I talked to her yesterday and she was flabbergasted. Apparently she liked this method so much that she has farmed out about 12 quilts. And no money coming in.
I told her not to worry about mine. I'd hold off for a couple of months and give her some time to recover. They just moved into a new (to them) farm house and had to have all of the windows redone before autumn. Plus her husband (a county Sherrif) gets a month vacation, so they take the entire month of July and go Alaska so he and her boys can hunt and fish, and lay in as much meat as they can for the coming year.
So there is a month with no LA'ing.
She is a good friend, so I trust her absolutely.
If you trust this woman, and she buys all the supplies, I say go for it, if you can set a price that you can both be happy with.
I told her not to worry about mine. I'd hold off for a couple of months and give her some time to recover. They just moved into a new (to them) farm house and had to have all of the windows redone before autumn. Plus her husband (a county Sherrif) gets a month vacation, so they take the entire month of July and go Alaska so he and her boys can hunt and fish, and lay in as much meat as they can for the coming year.
So there is a month with no LA'ing.
She is a good friend, so I trust her absolutely.
If you trust this woman, and she buys all the supplies, I say go for it, if you can set a price that you can both be happy with.
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