I couldn't believe what the owner of my local quilt shop told me yesterday...she received a call about handquilting, and she told the caller she doesn't do it anymore, and then we started talking about how do you charge for something like that, and she said there were some older ladies that lived down the road that handquilt, and they charge by the spools of thread they use....so you can get a handquilted quilt for about 300 dollars she said. That is crazy.