A friend asked if I would make her a quilt.
#22
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Wis
Posts: 5,928
Of course she loves it - it's pretty. I'm flattered if someone likes my quilt and wants one. And I like to make them for people that I think will appreciate it. But if you can't afford the cost, at least get her to buy the supplies.
#24
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Pittsburgh
Posts: 138
Good Luck with this. Do you want to make her the quilt? From my experience, people try to take advantage of me. My neighbor/friend recently asked if I could hem some curtains for her. She was renovating this large building. I didn't want to do it and didn't really say yes or no - which should have been taken as a no, so she shows up with 14 pairs of curtains. I did one pair, returned the stack with it and said sorry it took me over an hour to do the one pair and I simply don't have time to do the rest and gave her the number of someone who sews for a living. I don't. I work at a hospital all day.
I think people think because you sew you must not have anything else to do. NOT the case.
I only sew and give my things away. Only my children and niece have gotten quilts so far but I'm only beginning so who knows.
Best of luck. I'm sure she will love it if you make it for her.
I think people think because you sew you must not have anything else to do. NOT the case.
I only sew and give my things away. Only my children and niece have gotten quilts so far but I'm only beginning so who knows.
Best of luck. I'm sure she will love it if you make it for her.
#26
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 983
Jeri
#27
Super Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Midwest
Posts: 5,051
Ladies, the two letter word is one of the most powerful and agonizing word for us to use. NO. no need to lie, beat around the bush, apologize, etc. When people ask me to "make them" something, i explain how many HOURS go into the project. That stops them in their tracks. I am not making an excuse, I tell it like it is.
i recently posted my handmade Raggedy Ann as my profile picture on my Facebook page. The former organist at my church emailed me asking if I still made them. I explained, no, I have 40 hours in each doll. Never heard a reply from her....not even to offer to "pay". I wonder who the doll was for. She does not have kids. I am sure she does not play the organ for a wedding at "no charge" either. In fact, the rate for her to play at a wedding Mass is $150.00.
N O. Say it politely!
Sandy
i recently posted my handmade Raggedy Ann as my profile picture on my Facebook page. The former organist at my church emailed me asking if I still made them. I explained, no, I have 40 hours in each doll. Never heard a reply from her....not even to offer to "pay". I wonder who the doll was for. She does not have kids. I am sure she does not play the organ for a wedding at "no charge" either. In fact, the rate for her to play at a wedding Mass is $150.00.
N O. Say it politely!
Sandy
#28
Super Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Tri-Cities, WA
Posts: 1,063
Purly - it was just called the Layer Cake quilt, I think, and it's a Missouri Star Quilt Co. pattern - made with one packet of 10" squares (called a layer cake) plus 2 extra squares of a similar color from my stash.
#29
Super Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Tri-Cities, WA
Posts: 1,063
Thanks, all! I told her we would go shopping together for the fabric, so that should take care of the cost issue. I will really have to work on my N.O., though! There's not enough time already to get all the quilts done that I want to do!
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Lyncat
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
30
03-09-2014 03:41 PM
miss_ticky2
Pictures
71
01-09-2013 05:59 AM