Crazy Quilt Lady is Crazy

[Kanalah]

bg: I have an online store where I sell handmade quilts. I also sell custom-made quilts.

I love 99% of my customers. It's just that weird 1% that a: thinks I'm reselling from Wal-mart, b: thinks I own a factory/sweatshop or c: thinks I have a TARDIS full of fabric in my back pocket.

I really really wish C was true, because I would save tons of money on supplies, gas and shipping.

Anyway, so it's the time of year that I lock myself in the sewing room and just get zen with fabric. I've actually already finished 4 quilts and about 10 quilted stockings so far this year. I also am working on custom orders too.

So I got an email from my website, a lady would like a custom quilt done. She likes (quilt A) and would like one the same but bigger. I very politely inform her that I am all out of the *exact* fabric used in Quilt A and I can get something similar. She agrees. We hammer out all kinds of details, from the backing and quilting and tons of other minutia. I ask her to make a down payment of 50%. She decides to go ahead and pay in full, including shipping. She pays and I give her a completion/ship date.

So now I go through my TARDIS of fabric, picking out the ones that fit her criteria. (masculine child prints in blue, yellow and green). I emailed her with photos. That's when she blew up. Oh I shouldn't know she didn't want fabric with PEOPLE or CARTOONS in them! No!!

Which means I have to waste another shopping trip finding more fabric for her quilt.

The stupid thing? The quilt she loved? Quilt A? Is full of these PEOPLE and CARTOON style fabrics.

[Elspeth]

wow, that one is special and not in a good way. and how do you get masculine child prints? that just seems wrong to me for some reason.

And side note: I would like a TARDIS for my craft room!! I have too many projects.

[Kanalah]

Masculine child prints like: little boy blue, small children with sailboats. Stuff like that. It's basically an oversized baby quilt.

But no she just wanted like plaids and stripes? Which where nowhere in the original quilt.

[Green_Fairy]

and how do you get masculine child prints? that just seems wrong to me for some reason.

i'm gonna guess something without flowers? maybe like...geometric patterns or something.

and i third the wanting of the TARDIS. i...i like yarn. 'nuff said.

[Elspeth]

oh ok, that makes sense. Thanks, I learned something today.

[zombiequeen]

Lets just say my crafty stash is in my room, the basement, and my grandma's house
A TARDIS would do me lots of good, and give my little crafties a place to hide until they are sold. It's not safe in here with my husband.

And crazy quilt lady is indeed crazy, maybe she changed her mind? Or she just decided to throw you a loop of sorts.

[Green_Fairy]

And crazy quilt lady is indeed crazy, maybe she changed her mind? Or she just decided to throw you a loop of sorts.

i'm gonna guess that she just expected to have her mind read. cuz yanno. she's a "speshul snowflake" and whatnot.

[MoonCat]

Did she see your designs online? Maybe she can't see that well!

Or, y'know, she's nuts.

[zombiequeen]

So, she's broadcasting her thoughts loud enough for even an untrained telepath to read?
Maybe if she removed her foil hat!

[candyshopgirl]

I could use your help. Two xmas ago mom made me a mini sock monkey quilt. I love sock monkeys. So I have been collecting fabric scraps and such to add on to the mini quilt.I want to make it into a king sized quilt. Ugg I dont know where to begin. But yeah that woman is a bitch.She should have been very clear on what she wants.

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-STYLE-So...item588b03a6ed

This is what part of it looks like.

[Kanalah]

Candyshopgirl,

That fabric is adorable! I myself say that I've never met a fabric that I didn't like!

Adding onto an already completed quilt can be a tricky thing. It can be difficult to match exact colors and patterns, especially if the fabric is out of print. If it's done well, you'd hardly notice it. Done badly, it ruins both quilts. You also have to match the original quilting, which sounds simple but it can be akin to trying to forge someone else's name. I have a unique quilting style - every quilter does, and trying to copy someone else's exactly can be difficult.

Bottom line, it can be done, but it depends on if the fabric is still available and how to quilting is done.

[ThirdGenRetail]

I think by 'masculine' without cartoons or people, there's fabrics for boys like that. My mother made PJs for my nephews for Christmas - The younger one got John Deer print PJs. There's also, of course, sports and toys, plus fire trucks and the like, as well as puppy dogs and zoo animals, if you find the right stores

You tempt me with the idea of relearning how to sew to make quilts to try and sell online...

[Darkforge]

You tempt me with the idea of relearning how to sew to make quilts to try and sell online...

Stories about the SC's she has to deal with make ou want to do the same job?

Wow.. normally I get on here and go "I'm glad I don't have to deal with those kind of customers"

[chainedbarista]

Or, y'know, she's nuts.

i'm going with answer number two, final.

[dalesys]

Or, y'know, she's nuts.

i'm going with answer number two, final.

I'd go with "threadbare mind, with pilling"