Ladybug 1938

I do only hand quilting and wonder what people charge for hand quilting from Traditional to more all over type? Do you charger by the inch???

I do binding for some people and also would like to know what you charge for binding that's cutting the binding sewing it and then sewing it on by machine and whipping it down by hand...

Thanks for your help...

pab

Wow! I do hand quilting only for myself.Sorry I cant help pab

dunster

I don't think that very many people do hand quilting for hire anymore, so it may be hard to come up with comparisons. You should figure out how long it takes you to do a particular style of quilting and then figure out how much your time is worth. For binding, the LQS might be able to tell you what the going rate is in your area.

KathyAire

I'm allergic to any kind of hand work. If I ever (which I wouldn't) hand quilted for someone, they would not have enough money to pay me.

Seriously, I would think it would be a tremenous amount of money to hand quilt for someone.

QuiltswithConvicts

Back in the late 80s until 1990, I charged $125 per spool of quilting thread I used. If I began using a 2nd spool, I charged the full spool price. Most queen sized quilts took 2-3 spools minimum. No one ever complained. Don't know what I'd charge now. I didn't furnish batting or backing, but I did offer to sew the backing pieces together for them at no extra charge.

In the classified section of most quilting magazines, there are ads for hand quilting. You could contact them and ask what they charge. I think they are mostly Amish and Mennonites.

pittsburgpam

There is an Amish website that does hand quilting work and they charge $1.10 per yard of thread. They cut them in 36" lengths. The charge would totally depend on the size of the quilt and how dense the quilting is.

http://www.amishhandquilting.com/#Hand Quilting Services

Renee110

I couldn't believe what the owner of my local quilt shop told me yesterday...she received a call about handquilting, and she told the caller she doesn't do it anymore, and then we started talking about how do you charge for something like that, and she said there were some older ladies that lived down the road that handquilt, and they charge by the spools of thread they use....so you can get a handquilted quilt for about 300 dollars she said. That is crazy.

LivelyLady

The owner and his wife of a company I worked for bought a hand quilted queen size quilt when they were in Hawaii. This quilt was white and pink and hand appliqued too. They paid $5000 for it in 2001.

117becca

i googled the prices a few years ago....It was priced per foot of thread used. Then so much for putting the binding on and whether it was hand sewn or machine sewn down.

One thing for sure - to have a quilt had quilted is "cheaper" due to the large number of hours put in

Cyn

No one could afford my hand quilting ;)