Pricing a quilt
#21
I have charged $20-$30 an hour + materials for sewing for years and have plenty of customers. People who insist you can not make money quilting just haven't figured out how. Visit the { QuiltsforSale.ca} website and do some browsing, see what people are asking - and receiving for their quilts. Decide what your time is worth to you, Put everything in writing, be organized, keep good records and enjoy your journey.
#22
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: East Oklahoma - pining for Massachusetts
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I was once offered an amount for one of my quilts. As it happens, I had kept track of how many hours it had taken to complete the quilting. I took a calculator and did some figuring, after which I told him that I was pretty sure I could do better than 83 cents an hour! I quilt for family, friends and myself.
#23
We pay our plumbers, carpenters, mechanics $50-$60 an hour, and balk over minimum wage? What is wrong with that picture???
I have charged $20-$30 an hour + materials for sewing for years and have plenty of customers. People who insist you can not make money quilting just haven't figured out how. Visit the { QuiltsforSale.ca} website and do some browsing, see what people are asking - and receiving for their quilts. Decide what your time is worth to you, Put everything in writing, be organized, keep good records and enjoy your journey.
I have charged $20-$30 an hour + materials for sewing for years and have plenty of customers. People who insist you can not make money quilting just haven't figured out how. Visit the { QuiltsforSale.ca} website and do some browsing, see what people are asking - and receiving for their quilts. Decide what your time is worth to you, Put everything in writing, be organized, keep good records and enjoy your journey.
#24
Just as WE have those overhead expenses, too....
#25
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 2,061
I have been quilting for almost 60 years and I DO NOT make quilts for anyone, at any price, at any time, for any reason, just because they would like me to. You never get paid what you are worth, so if you get a quilt from me, you can be sure I LOVE you very much and YOU are important to me (not your money).
#26
check out this site, I think we under sell ourselves
http://www.quiltsforsale.ca/DB/searc...size&pick=king
http://www.quiltsforsale.ca/DB/searc...size&pick=king
#27
I find this thread really interesting. People ask me all the time if I sell my quilts. I always say no, because no one really wants to pay the price. Most have no idea what the materials cost let alone the labor and cost of equipment. I have often said, I'll teach you how but that is usually as far as it goes.
#28
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,684
Yes the plumber gets $60 an hour BUT do you think that plumbers really love digging out pipes and fixing toilets? It's a skilled job as is quiltmaking. Like musicians, I suspect there are a lot more people who would like to make money making quilts than there is a market for it. By all means charge what you should for your quilts, if you can get it. I wouldn't work for a measly wage. I think the attitude of most of us: that we will only make for friends and family and aren't charging (except for materials) is a good one. I think you have to be an extraordinary quilter (or have great business savvy) to be able to make decent money from selling quilts.
I was showing my quilts to my tennis buddies and one hinted my birthday is coming up soon and I thought to myself, you have NO idea what you are asking for. I just laughed.
I was showing my quilts to my tennis buddies and one hinted my birthday is coming up soon and I thought to myself, you have NO idea what you are asking for. I just laughed.
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