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What It's Worth

5/16/2014

"La Femme" Sold at Houston Show

Every wonder how to price a quilt for sale or why a quilt is priced "so high"? I ran across a great article that explains it so well, I thought that I would share it with you. Thank you Stacy for the heads up on this one. (Check out Stacy Hurt's work, she is a great fiber artist.)

I have a pricing structure that works well for me. I have explained the same points Sam Hunter states when pricing my quilts to buyers, but Sam states it so passionately that it is fun as well as informative.

Check out Sam's latest projects. Some great scrappy ideas and a how to on layering your backing and batting using a folding table. I have used this technique when working on a larger quilt and it makes it so much better than crawling around on the floor to do it. A great back saver!

This pricing post was in November of 2012 but the information is timeless.
Enjoy the read by Sam Hunter: http://huntersdesignstudio.com/2012/11/08/whats-it-worth/

Do you have experience pricing your work? I would love to hear about your successes or trials.

Leave a comment on this post or use the contact form if you have additional questions. I would love to hear from you.

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"La Femme" is Sold

11/3/2012

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Just got the exciting news from Amanda with IQF that "La Femme" will not be coming home to me. My quilt has been purchased while it was with the special exhibit "Black and White with a Twist" at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. The show goes until November 4th, 2012. It is very humbling to know that someone likes a piece of art enough to want to take it home.

This is also a good reminder to me (and to other artists) that you must be sure to have good photographs of your work before they go to an exhibit. There may not be any opportunities to document your work later.

I really enjoyed creating this quilt. Not only was it interesting to work with mostly black and white, but I had a lot of fun working with the Wordle program, selecting the font and getting the text arranged in a way that I felt was pleasing. I used several computer programs in designing this quilt both on the internet (Wordle) and on my personal computer (Corel Draw). Corel Draw made the task so easy in getting the text to follow the exact curves of the figure. I was able to move each word independently.

This quilt was first displayed at IQF Long Beach, then traveled to QuiltFest Pennsylvania and from there on to IQF Houston. David and I were able to go back to PA to on vacation to see the show and while visiting friends. I am glad I got to see it one more time before it sold.

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Black and White with a Twist

2/12/2012

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David and I have gotten to the point where this project is almost done. He finished up some beading on his and I just have to do some color work on mine. The biggest issue with mine is that it seems to have shrunk from the massive stitching and the washing I did to get the "wash out pens" washed out. I used the pillowcase method of finishing it and I did not allow enough extra in my measurements to make up for the shrinkage. The exhibit requirements are:

BLACK AND WHITE WITH A TWIST is a themed exhibit to be shown at the Long Beach International Quilt Festival in July 2012. The quilts should be 30” wide x 54” long in a portrait format. The quilt shall be all black and white, with no grayscale, unless it is used as the 10% color. The “Twist” of color shall not exceed 10% of the total area or the equivalent of a 13” x 13: square, cut up and spread anywhere onto the quilt.

My only option at this point is to try to block it to recover some of the width and length. It is still a great piece. I am very happy with it and will use it for some other exhibit if it doesn't work out for this one. I will be bummed if it is unable to be in this exhibit as I am out of time to do a second piece. Wish me luck and send up some prayers.

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"La Femme" is Sold

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