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What is the fair price to pay someone to make store displays?

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Old 06-05-2012, 08:44 AM
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Hi, I am needing to hire someone to help get my store displays made. I currently do not have any employees that I would be paying an hourly wage. Does anyone have an idea of a fair price. I am sure it would vary by size. My store is located in central Kansas. Thanks, Vicki Hooker owner The Quilting Place LLC.
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Old 06-05-2012, 08:49 AM
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Some quilt shops let the seamstress have the quilt top.
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Old 06-05-2012, 08:51 AM
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Where in central Kansas are you? I'm a farm girl from McCracken (halfway between Ness City and Hays). I now live in the Dallas, Tx area.
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Some will let the person keep the item after it's been on display for awhile - basically trading fabric for labor.

If you chose to do that - you might have the piecer pay for the materials up front - have her keep the receipt - and when the item is completed and it's brought back for display - you reimburse the piecer

Basically what quiltyfeelings said.
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you give them the quilt when you are done displaying it.
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Since it sounds like you are just starting out and things are probably tight- see if you can set up a barter or trade ?
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Most quilt shops in my area , provide the fabric, and at the end of a period of time ( agreed to ahead of time) the maker gets to keep the quilt.
I have seen one that offers a discount on the fabric (30 percent) , and discounted longarm quilting( 30 percent) and at the end of a period of time the maker keeps the quilt.
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Vicki, are you in Hutchinson? I visit Charlotte's quilt shop all the time. You'll have to tell me your hours and I'll pay you a visit.
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When I have made a store sample, I have been given the pattern and the fabric provided. When the LQS is through displaying the item, she gives it back to me.
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I am located on North Main Street in Hutchinson, Kansas. I am very familar with Ness City and spent some time working on a farm in between Ness City and Quinter when I was 17 and just married.
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