Please Let Me Vent. (Machine Quilting)

Sherry · 2007-10-07T02:29:48+00:00

I am just so sick. I took a quilt that I had worked on for a year to alady who machine quilts. I'd seen samplesof her work hanging in her shop. I thought it was great. Now I don'tthink SHE did those quilts.She ruined my quilt. And I don't even have it back yet. I have paidher in full (around $100 for a very small quilt; it's about 60" x 68")I picked it up Monday. Didn't look real close till I got home and Iwas horrified. I just wanted to throw up. Then to make matters worse,one whole end of the border was not even done! I called and she said"bring it back." That was 6 days ago. She has had this quilt sinceJuly 27.It looks like she tried to "stitch in the ditch" on some of theblocks, and kept running out of the ditch. Real messy looking. Some ofthe blocks have designs and look okay. Some blocks are stitched 1/4"from the ditch. They look passable. But all together it looks awful.It had a 6.5" border. She did this little appx. 3" design down themiddle of it, leaving NO quilting on either side.The back looks as bad as the front. It had a cream-colored, solidback. She used brown varigated thread. It looks like white thread thatgot dirty in spots. I though it *was* dirty till I looked close.I guess there is nothing I can do about this. A lesson learned, reallyhard. I only took it because I didn't think I could do a good job hand-quilting it because the fabric was rather heavy, tone on tone back,and there was lots of applique. I could have done a lot better myself,now I know this.I am just so disappointed. It makes me want to give it to Goodwill orsomething because I'll just get angry every time I look at it for therest of my life.It also makes me want to enter it in the big quilt show this month,with a BIG sign that says, "Machine Quilted by XXXX". But I guess thatwould be mean.Thanks for listening. Sniff.Sherry

Oct 07, 2007 22 Replies

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harrythehair 18 years ago

That's terrible! I hope this person isn't in Florida...I left two quilts with someone there and I don't know her too well. I can't pick them up until the middle of this month. Please tell m e she isn't in Florida.

Barb C. in S. FL

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Tracey 18 years ago

I would be DEMANDING a refund.

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DrQuilter 18 years ago

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