Thread: What would you charge?

I pretty much quilt "full time" and for the most part, I give my quilts away. "No one has enough money to buy them." On rare occasions I have done quilts of varying types for friends, or friends of friends. I do keep track of my hours involved. I keep track of my materials cost and on the invoice for the materials cost, I indicate how many hours were involved and then tell the person to "let their conscience be their guide" and I accept what they offer.

Quilting is a labor of love for me and there isn't any way I can put a price tag on it. I could never do quilting for a living. I'd starve to death!! LOL

Originally Posted by brenwalt

I pretty much quilt "full time" and for the most part, I give my quilts away. "No one has enough money to buy them." On rare occasions I have done quilts of varying types for friends, or friends of friends. I do keep track of my hours involved. I keep track of my materials cost and on the invoice for the materials cost, I indicate how many hours were involved and then tell the person to "let their conscience be their guide" and I accept what they offer.

Quilting is a labor of love for me and there isn't any way I can put a price tag on it. I could never do quilting for a living. I'd starve to death!! LOL

Ditto, Ditto.

About 15 years ago, a co-worker found out that I was a quilter. She asked me if I could repair a quilt she received as a wedding gift 9 years previously. She wanted to be able to hand it down to her daughter. The quilt was a queen size log cabin in 2 inch strips, a lot of the seams were coming apart, and some of the strips were disintegrating. It was half machine quilted, and half tied. She didn't care whether i tied it or quilted it, it was up to me.

I took on the task, no time limit. I frogged the whole quilt, repaired all the seams and missing areas, provided a new batting, sandwiched it, and hand quilted it in an overall fan pattern.

She asked how much I wanted for fixing it, I just told her to buy me a queen size batting.................. come to think of it, I never did receive the new batting. LOL, oh well, but I did have fun doing it.

I love the challenge of making one out of clothing for a memory quilt. I have done several. I never quote a time limit on them. To me, the fun of it is to make any type of fabric play together.

I very quickly discovered that sewing with fabrics and a pattern that were not my choice and on someone else's timeline does not make me sing with joy. I had someone keep asking me to make her a bed quilt (at least double bed in size) and make myself $200. I told her several times I could make that working a typing shift on a Saturday and be over and done with it very quickly.

I made a baby quilt for my husband' s aunt to give to her great grandchild - she asked me to do this through my husband and I felt some degree of obligation. I basically charged what it cost me for outside borders and binding (the rest came from my stash) and I explained this was a one off deal. I work full time and quilt for my own enjoyment so I set a longish deadline that I felt I could cope with - my husband saw the top starting to come together and told his aunt it wouldn't be long. The upshot - my time frame came down by about 6 weeks BUT you can bet my husband won't do that to me again.

I too give lots of my quilts away.

I have made several quilts for people at work. I ask for their color choice and I pick the pattern. I give them a range for pricing based on the price I pay for fabric. I then shop for fabric and complete the process. They are always thrilled with the end product because they are unable to do it themselves and often do not see what we see but the sentiment involved . The most I've charged is $250.