drJaner

I've completed my DJ top and am hand quilting it now. This site - That Quilt - will show you how to do each block.
http://thatquilt.blogspot.com/

I doubt if it would cost $600 to make a DJ quilt. I enjoyed the process.

Bluphrog

I saw one quilt shop that has the DJ kit "on sale" for $385, but you still have to buy the book (another $30). Then, if you want to pp the blocks, you need the CD, which is another $69.

drJaner

Well, I suppose it would help some to have others select the fabric but I think if a person is making a quilt, it's fun to find your own fabric either in quilt stores or online. And maybe the CD would be helpful but I found that http://thatquilt.blogspot.com/ gives instruction in such detail that a person wouldn't need a CD to learn paper piecing.

To each his/her own, I guess. I did mine the way I wanted to by buying the book, a few measurement tools for sizing, the fabric and joined an online forum to ask questions if I was unsure of something in the construction.

I love my quilt but I would never have completed it if I had had to pay a lot of money all at once for a kit or if I had had to wait every month for block instructions. One block at a time and it's done!!