“but most of the fun is in STARTING them!”
No kidding. I have 10+ quilt tops hanging in my closet. I must move on and complete them, but I hate doing the “quilt sandwich”. I’m pretty sure they make fun of me when I open the door.
I have a friend who lives north of me by about 300 miles and quilts for a living. I find it very hard to keep up with her, even on FB. She has two long-arm quilting machines that she uses as her money-makers (she had to find something to do after her divorce because her husband refused to pay child support or alimony, so she began to sell her hand-made quilts) but she probably has four or five projects going on them for her bread and butter, and at least as many for fun. I think she does it all for the rush she gets.
Me? Mine are all my different forms of “therapy.” Not nearly as expensive as a shrink, but far more time-consuming!
I read somewhere that you can send your quilt tops to the Amish in Lancaster to be quilted. Wish I knew more, but maybe you can find the ladies who offer this service. There are a lot of quilt shops up there, so maybe they would know, or are online. Don’t know if their prohibition on electricity keeps them offline...