LeslieFrost

After seeing and hearing quilters complain about binding, I'm thinking of offering a binding service locally. But, how to figure out the charge?

Per running foot of bound quilt seems like a good place to start. What would you think of 15 cents per running foot? That would be $30 for a 50" by 50" baby quilt. Hmm, seems like too much. Maybe a dime per running foot, which would be $20 for that dimension baby quilt.

Is there any other quilt binding service that anyone knows of?

Thanks for helping me think!

Zhillslady

Would you be makig binding and adding it start to finish or just turning under and doing the handstitching part?

luvTooQuilt

My LA charges $10 for machine stitched binding.. any size..

greenini

A friend paid me $100 to bind a quilt. Knowing it was way too much, I gave her a bunch of quilting equipment for the beginning quilting class we were taking together!

I have no idea what to charge or how, obviously (well, she was the one who offered the price :shock: )....

Aully

I am having a longarm quilter do the quilting part as well as half the binding for $50 (she will do the binding on the top by machine and I will handstitch it on the back) for her to do it all it would be done by hand she charges $120.

gaevren

It would really depend on whether or not you were doing hand-stitching or only machine-binding, I'd think.

luvnquilt

Interesting idea. I'm perfectly capable of doing the binding myself, so I think $20.00 would be fair but to someone who can't or doesn't have time to it could very well be worth a lot more.

0tis

Great idea - binding can be frustruating...

Lacelady

I must be weird, 'cos I LOVE the hand stitching part.

LeslieFrost

I love the hand part also!