Guild Quilt - Longarm Quilt Survey

Did she volunteer to do it? Or was she asked to do it?

Some people give back to their guild by serving as president or chairing an activity. Some people by making the blocks for the raffle quilt or doing regular charity quilting on behalf of the guild. Some give back to their guild by doing the longarm quilting on the raffle quilt.

So if she volunteered... a thank you and maybe a nice recognition in your newsletter would be in order. If she was approached and asked to do it.... then I think (imnsho) she should be compensated.

I think that explains it perfectly, if they volunteered, then a big pat on the back whatever way it is done in your guild is appropriate, otherwise, negotiation needs to take place before the job is done, some guilds expect a certain amount of hours from members helping at a show or something, so there might be some negotiation that doesn't involve money.

Anne

depends. If the guild approached the individual as a business person she/he should be compensated for the work she did. If she volunteered to do the quilting, that is another story. I would definitely offer some payment, or at least prominent mention of the name of the quilter in all publicity if she is not paid.

We do pay to have our quilts done in one group. Another group has a chapter "donate" the quilt. Individual chapters do various things.

Pati, > Hi!

Used to be that someone in the guild quilted our opportunity quilt. Interestingly enough the one just finished was long arm quilted by someone not even in the group. They actually paid someone out of the guild to do it. She was a former member and did it at a reduced price but I thought it was pretty lame for a quilt group not to have someone in the group do it up. The excuse was nobody offered to do it or was capable. Excuse me? Over 70 quilters in the group and nobody can quilt a quilt? Maybe had they brought the need before the group it would have been met. Sometimes the politics in these groups get pretty irritating. Taria

Michele > Hi!

We have done it both ways. Last years quilt was quilted by a guild member & she did not charge us for it. In return, we displayed her flyer whenever we took the quilt out to display or sell tickets.

This year, we approached a quilter who is not a member, but who we had heard got a bad rap from another group. She does beautiful work & we thought we could offer her some help by asking her to quilt our quilt. She was appreciative of our intent & did it for a very reduced price ($100 I think), which included trapunto in sections, etc. We are displaying her flyer with the quilt wherever we take it.

Ladies,

Thank you all so much for your input.

I'm actually astounded to see a number of guilds do, in fact, compensate a *member* for quilting the fund-raising raffle quilt.

Off to mull this over.

Thanks again for the quick responses!!

-Michele

We actually have two large raffle quilts this year....the second prize one kinda grew! One of our members is a LA Quilter and she will do the first prize one for free and we will pay her to do the second prize one.....couldn't get any other volunteers to do the second one.

I agree with you Pati.

If the guild asks, then the guild should pay. Why should a business person not be compensated just because she also pays guild dues?

Now, if the member quilter wants to give the guild a deal or offers to do it for free....

marcella

Our donation quilt last year was finished by a "long armed" member. We gave her a year's free guild membership, but she traded it for booth rental at our show.

I think people should be compensated if they do it all themselves.

Cindy

Big wave to Marcella!! (Are you working on any MIS quilts for A?)

So, OOC, do you ever teach a class at your guild where participants pay a class fee? And do you get compensated at the same rate you would if you had

Me thinks not.

Now, that class can come about in 2 ways. YOU can approach the program director with an idea for a class, or she may approach you and ask if you would be interested in doing a class. It's understood the students would pay a fee. Would your expectations of compensation be different depending on the scenario? Again, it's not like this would happen every month; we're talking a one-time thing. And, don't forget, the fee the students would pay would go into the guild's kitty.

-Michele (always curious)

Hey there!

Not currently. I need to call that girl, we haven't talked much lately.

It's a tricky one. At our guild, members do pitch in a lot. So, I like to do my share of helping too. But it's a fine line and I try to stay off the "taken advantage of" side. I know some people feel they have been, and I'm sure that's not a good feeling.

marcella

I am a LA quilter and have been for 8 years. I was asked to quilt the guild donation quilt. I am a member of the guild. I told them I could not quilt it without being compensated for my work. I do donate many hours quilting donation quilts each month and feel that is my donation. No one else would take on the quilt so I was asked to quilt it and would be paid for my work. Well, when I finished the quilt and presented the bill, the guild was shocked that even though I told them I would charge that I actually did. My feeling is that most guilds will readily pay and outsider to come and lecture, pay their expenses, wine and dine them. The lecturer also makes money selling her patterns and gadgets which her lecture is actually a big commercial for and she makes money from giving classes where she sells more stuff. We pay her to sell us stuff and guilds get upet paying a member to quilt a quilt that they are going to make money on.

If someone volunteers that is great, but if you ask them then pay them. They are professionals just like the lectures are.

Carmaleta