Additional Information
Random Points Worth Making:
TCQ no longer makes memory quilts or t-shirt quilts from scratch. If you are in STL you can try the Crafted in St. Louis Facebook groups. My personal recommendation is to look for someone who is highly recommended by their previous customers and who longarms their quilts. While these are not hard and fast rules, they indicate to me someone who is turning out professional quality products like we strived to do.
We do have a minimum charge of $40 on quilting services for any one project. Regardless of size, it takes time to prep, communicate with the customer, load the quilt, prep the thread, trim, and invoice. This minimum charge helps us balance these tasks with the smaller quilts that come through the studio.
If you need a project back faster than our usual turnaround, just ask! We can almost always accommodate such requests, though keep in mind any turnaround that is so quick it requires us to work outside of our usual parameters will incur a $50 rush fee per quilt. It’s hard to explain when this does and does not apply as it has more to do with the timing of how our operations are structured so be sure to ask if it is a concern.
The widest our machine can handle is 120” of backing fabric, which means a 112” quilt top is our maximum quilt width. There are no limits in it’s length.
Items with extra fabric in the borders, folds in the piecing, or unsquared backing (is that a word? Unsquared? Non-squared? Crooked?) may result in puckers or folds that get captured by the quilting. While we do our best to ease these out or go around them, it’s not always possible to avoid this.
While we guarantee a 4 week turnaround the bulk of the year, things do change around the holiday season. Here is our past year’s holiday season schedule, including TCQ’s winter break. While the exact dates change year to year, it’s important to be aware of those differences in our schedule.
Quilting T-shirt quilts. Yes!! We are happy to do so with one major caveat: All of the knit fabrics in the quilt MUST BE STABILIZED. If not, the fabric will stretch under our needle creating folds, puckers, long stitches and/or skipped stitches. You don’t want that, I don’t want that, my machines really don’t want that.
We do not accept quilts that come from homes where someone smokes. It’s unfortunate, we do not intend to leave folks out, but we cannot expose other’s quilts and our studio to the smell they bring with them, however slight it may seem to the individual living in the home.