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summerkid wrote: As a quilter I've had good success selling at art fairs, through architects & word of mouth. But I've always wanted to come up with a piece that felt sufficiently artsy to me yet could be partly subcontracted or mass produced.
For years I've mulled over an idea for baby quilts made of my painted silk. The painting is just abstract dyeing, really, and what I've thought is that I could take a 45" square of this & embellish it slightly with a complementary square plus some ribbon and quilting. The labor in this would be minimal but the look is pretty big bang for the buck. I've sold these as art quilts for $375 & upward, and they represent only a couple of hours' labor.
So I'd like anyone here to weigh in with an opinion. Here is a prototype. Right now it's just the main 2 pieces of silk fused to batting & backed with heavy flannel, plus I've draped some silk ribbon over it that could be sewn on randomly or around the little square or not at all. The quilting would be done in heavy silk thread on my longarm in a meander pattern.
I'm going for the heirloom rather than cute look. So these quilts might retail for, say, $150. I figure the baby market will never go away. I also don't need to sell a million, but ideally I'd like to find a catalog outlet.
I'm desperate for the reaction & eyes of someone other than myself when it comes to style, pricing, whatever. If you tell me that no one in a million years would buy these, that only quilts with kittens on them sell, I need to hear that.
So please weigh in! I'm tired of being an artisanal lurker in this forum.
