To add photos to a quilt, here is what it would cost per 8x10 photo page:
fabric sheet- 3.50 (based on 3 sheets for 11.00, plus tax)
printer ink - 2.50 cents per page (based on 54.00 for both black and color cartridge for HP printer).
So, $6.00 per picture page.
Actually, for me, I make my own sheets...they cost me about 40 cents each, making them with BubbleJetSet2000 & the BJSet rinse.
So, about $3.00 per page (labor is more, which is why I charge $12.00 per page...I can spend 4-5 hours fixing a photo for use on a quilt).
Marge
Originally Posted by margecam52
Hard to figure really accurately.
As someone else said, it depends on wether you are doing for a customer or yourself.
For a customer who has a certain type of fabric in mind, here is a guesstimate of the actual cost, minus labor.
Queen size
pattern: Eye of the Storm (Quilt Almanac 2009, by the editors of Quilt magazine, page67).
24 fat quarters (6yards of fabric)
1-5/8 yards of print 1
3/4 yard print 2
that comes to 7-1/8 yards for the top.
Backing 8-1/2 yards
15-5/8 yards of fabric at, let's say $10.00 a yard = $156.25
Batting (80/20 cotton/poly) Queen size $27.00 retail
Thread 18.00 (C&Clark for assembly, King Tut for quilting).
That comes to $201.00 not counting needles, wear and tear on machines, labor.
When I did upholstery, we charged 15.00 per yard labor (in 1978-82)...we rounded to nearest full yard...so 16 yards labor x 15.00 is 240.00, just for the assembly of the quilt top.
Another 122.00 for simple meander quilting, double that for semi-custom.