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the program, Mrs. Conelly earned $1000 to $2600 a year. “That's not a lot,” she concedes, “but when you consider that’s working at home, and not full time ... well, it buys all them extras.”
There were 21 participants in Upshur County, and prices paid for their products were based on minimum wage, materials and overhead. All projects were timed.
Mountan Artisans eventually went bankrupt, and has been replaced by numerous private co-ops. Mrs. Conelly believes that the tremendous amount of waste in materials "and other types of waste” contributed to the downfall of the public program.
All of her sales, are private now, and her only advertising is word-of-mouth. Private employment allows for much more creativity and freedom than the government program, she said, but “the difficulty is to sell a quilt and get what a quilt is worth.”
Her prices vary from $40 to $400. Her products include quilts, pillows, place mats, sample squares or “wall hangin's,” and a Christmas tree floor pad that doubles as a nice cape garmet for children.
A tremendous amount of material, labor and care goes into these products. Before starting a quilt, Mrs. Conelly needs to figure how much backing is needed, the width of the material, complementing of various colors, and all sorts of arithmetic problems.
“Oh, you’re spendin’ a half a day just figurin’ before you can even shop for material," she said.
Like most quilters, she chooses fixed basic patterns, rather than design her own.
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