Thank you everyone!
FarmChiq, carpets? No, those two are king size quilts airing out draped over the deck railing. One is my summer quilt, one is my winter quilt.
The quilt currently in my avatar is my all time favortie and one I am particularly proud of. It took 9 months to piece the top. Alas, since it is so massive, I was not able to hand quilt it, and it was quilted by machine. I still feel like a cheat if I send my quilts to a machine (long arm) to do the quilting. But those king size quilts are too much for one person to quilt by hand alone. Plus it adds a year or more onto the time it takes to get a quilt on a bed.
Silkie, in fact my camera takes massive pictures. To email a pic to someone I have to size it down first. But something goes on between my computer and photobucket that limits them to this size. OR there is something about my setting here on WCPS that will only allow me to post this size. I have fiddled with different sizes before laoding and before sending and no matter what I do, I end up with this size photo.
Ruffled, do I make these for money? Ba ha ha, that's a good one! Ba ha ha, oh my stomach hurts from laughing. Gee, I'm all out of breath now. Short answer, no. I have been quilting for over 30 years. I have never sold a quilt. I have made many, many quilts, never sold one. That red,blue and gold quilt with the stars, my avatar quilt, my cost on that was well over $500. If I tell someone I want $500 for a quilt they laugh at me. If I want to pay myself a pittance for my time that price goes up to $900. That's a wage of $50 a month....bottom line, I make them for the joy of it, the beauty, the therapy that it provides me. I have always said I would rather give a quilt to someone who appreciates and treasures it than sell it to someone who grumbles about the price.
RUffled, you asked about sizes. I don't really have a standard size I make my quilts. I figure out what size bed they're for, a queen being 5 feet across, 60 inches. Then I decide how much drop down each side I want, 8 inches, or 10 inches or 12 inches. Some people like deep, flowing quilts. Others want them a bit shorter, to cover a bed and not drape down the sides. I find the bigger a quilt gets, the more likely it is to drag itself off the bed during the night. That avatar quilt is HUGE and always slides off the bed!
I've made teeny, small baby quilts, toddler quilts, sofa quilts, single bed quilts, queens and now 3 king size! The avatar quilt is 108 inches side to side and 90 inches top to bottom, or 9 feet across, 7 feet, 6 inches long.
I must be blind.
