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My Mom inherited a lot of fabric from a friend when she passed away.   Mom would think she had a nice chunk of yardage, only to open it up and there would be a circle cut right out of the middle.   If Shirley wanted a piece of fabric in the shape of a circle, square or ??   she just cut it right out of the middle.   haha

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Maybe you could wave your wand and make that batting the correct size. ;) Obviously she didn't know what she was bringing.

 

The big issue would be the time you lose waiting for a replacement or waiting for her approval to use something else. 

 

To share another funny, in my early days a very very frugal piecer brought me a top and batting for her precious new grandson. The batting was the definition of "Frankenstein"--patched together of several different types, weights, and colors  :blink: of batting. She had stitched it together using a wide zig-zag stitch and bright orange thread. The orange thread shadowed through all over the pretty blue pastel top. What was she thinking? Oh, did I add that one of the pieces was covered--no, coated-- with dog hair?! She must have snatched it from the dog bed to make the piece big enough! Yikes!

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It's all good -  I contacted her and said that it's too small - I'll provide a proper size with my batting and charge her accordingly.   

 

Last time the backing was too small.   grr.   I'll need to remember to really be vigilant with her at intake time.  

 

 

Kathy -   all those candy wrappers have nothing to do with stress, and all to do with the fact that they are chocolate and peanut butter.    :lol:

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I don't let my customers supply either thread or batting.  If they show up with batting I tell them to take it home with them and use on another project.  I buy rolls and don't like "bagged" batting because of all the wrinkles.  Who know where the thread was stored, or for that matter what it actually is.  I charge just a little more than my cost for the batting, and am happy to do that to avoid this sort of problem.  They get to choose between Hobbs 80/20 and poly down.  One of these days I'm going to buy a roll of wool and add that to my choices.  Jim

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I glad that providing batting and including the cost in your pricing works well for many of you. Knowing how the product performs and what the end result will look like alleviates a lot of guesswork.

 

With that said, I don't provide batting, but I do sell premium batting at full retail as a convenience to my customers. Maybe one in six will buy batting from me. The rest take their coupons to the "J store" so they can save $$. I never undercut the LQS because that's where some of my customers find out about me. If I sell for less than the local shops (or include the cost in my quoted price and it's less than retail), the locals then consider me competition and my cards and referrals would be long gone. Just another perspective. If you're located far from shops, including the batting is a great idea. I also have two customers who store rolls of batting with me. I have room and keep the rolls covered and labeled. This convenience for them makes them my "super-regulars" and they average eight quilts or more a year.

 

As for them supplying thread? No, nope, not ever, no way, sorry.  ;)

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