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#32
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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quiltingbuddy, there is a website called fivebucksayard (I've bought from and recommend), and there are also inexpensive quality fabrics on etsy, you just have to search for them. I'm sure others will chime in with other websites I'm not familiar with, that have fabrics for that price. I just don't shop online very much.
#33
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Mc Cune, KS
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Mennonites are not a less strict sect of Amish!! http://www.mennoniteusa.org/about-us...he-mennonites/
Go to MCC.org and read about quilt auctions and what they raise $ for. Please don't make uninformed statements.
Go to MCC.org and read about quilt auctions and what they raise $ for. Please don't make uninformed statements.
#34
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Mc Cune, KS
Posts: 171
Just FYI most quilts auctioned at an MCC sale are at least hand quilted, many are hand appliqued. Our church, as well as many Mennonite and Church of the Brethren churches has a quilting circle. It's fun to quilt together.
#35
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 448
Yes, I volunteer to quilt for Mennonite Central Committee, the calculation in $ is based on labor/time.. The ingredients to make quilt are donated.. So your right your quilt higher if you buy your own fabric. P.S. I'm not Mennonite, but joined to learn how to calculate my quilting.
#36
Craft people are artists, hence the "starving artist" quote. If we had to live off what we made, most of us would starve! If you enjoy what you do, and do it for fun, then what you charge for you craft is just icing on the cake... Fun and a paycheck too! But most of the public do not see our craft as art, it's "homemade, so therefor not professional. I used to make wedding gowns, and loved it. But I got serious and decided that the hundreds of hours I spent to make someone else's dream come true was not helping me gain MY dreams of a new seeing machine (top dollar one). I re-figured my pricing strategy, and my first 3 years of new pricing came in at a very fair price and the brides were happy. But I had a bride bring me a picture of a $12,000.00 dress for me to copy. When my price came to just under $9,000.00, she almost fainted. She demanded I cut the price. My suggestion was to go to the salon that had the dress and demand THEY cut their price. She said since it was "homemade" how dare I think is should be paid a "professional rate". I escorted her out, thanking her for considering my services and closed the door. I got a call a few days later, she said she was "going to let it go"(whatever that meant) and let me "try my hand at a designer gown" (uh, that is what I do, DESIGN and MAKE the dress). I apologized and told her my services were no longer available and suggested she buy the gown. I am now out of the gown business, after 25 years. I now sew, piece, quilt, embroider, and play. My sewing room, my machines, my time, my rules. Don't like them, go someplace else.
We are artists and we should not apologize for being one, and we should be able to charge a reasonable price for our goods.
We are artists and we should not apologize for being one, and we should be able to charge a reasonable price for our goods.
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#37
Mennonite, are a less strict sect of Amish so they are quilting by hand. They do beautiful work too.
I once kept track of how many hours I had in a king size hand quilted quilt. I stopped keeping track when it got over 300 hours. I suspect it took me close to 400.
Edited to add, an intensely machine quilted quilt could easily have 100 or more hours in it. I know I have done long armed jobs that had at least 80 hours into it. And an intricately pieced quilt even done by machine could also easily have over 100 hours into it from cutting to final border.
I once kept track of how many hours I had in a king size hand quilted quilt. I stopped keeping track when it got over 300 hours. I suspect it took me close to 400.
Edited to add, an intensely machine quilted quilt could easily have 100 or more hours in it. I know I have done long armed jobs that had at least 80 hours into it. And an intricately pieced quilt even done by machine could also easily have over 100 hours into it from cutting to final border.
#40
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: western australia
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WOW Jan I could be a zillionare I just nead to be trained and skilled in this craft. LOL
Is it time to post this again? Found online years ago....
Jan in VA
What It Really Costs To Make a Quilt
QUEEN SIZED, MACHINE PIECED, HAND QUILTED
MATERIALS:
Fabric 12-16 yards @ $9per yd. $108 - $144
Batting $25 - $40
Thread $8 - $16
Total $ invested $141 - $200
LABOR HOURS:
Piecing 20 to 60 hours
“Setting” (designing your quilt) 10 to 20 hours
Quilting 100 to 750 hours
Total hours invested 130 to 810 hours
TOTAL COST
Paying $1 per hour (Would you do this type of work for $1 an hour?!)
Materials $141 - $200
Labor $130 - $810
Total $271 - $1070
Paying minimum wage $7.25 (by law in 6/2009)
Materials $141 - $200
Labor (130-810hrs) $942.50 - $5872.25
Total $1083.50 - $6072.25
Paying skilled labor wage $20 per hour (Don't you consider yourself trained and skilled in this craft?)
Materials $141 - $200
Labor (130-810hrs) $2600 - $16,200
Total $2741 - $16,400
(Found on the Internet 1995; unknown author)
Jan in VA
What It Really Costs To Make a Quilt
QUEEN SIZED, MACHINE PIECED, HAND QUILTED
MATERIALS:
Fabric 12-16 yards @ $9per yd. $108 - $144
Batting $25 - $40
Thread $8 - $16
Total $ invested $141 - $200
LABOR HOURS:
Piecing 20 to 60 hours
“Setting” (designing your quilt) 10 to 20 hours
Quilting 100 to 750 hours
Total hours invested 130 to 810 hours
TOTAL COST
Paying $1 per hour (Would you do this type of work for $1 an hour?!)
Materials $141 - $200
Labor $130 - $810
Total $271 - $1070
Paying minimum wage $7.25 (by law in 6/2009)
Materials $141 - $200
Labor (130-810hrs) $942.50 - $5872.25
Total $1083.50 - $6072.25
Paying skilled labor wage $20 per hour (Don't you consider yourself trained and skilled in this craft?)
Materials $141 - $200
Labor (130-810hrs) $2600 - $16,200
Total $2741 - $16,400
(Found on the Internet 1995; unknown author)
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