Originally Posted by starshine
Maybe first clarify with her whether her offer of $12 was for the labor only, and was she intending to pay for the supplies. If not, let her know that you can give her the supply and fabric requirements and she can pay for all the supplies, and agree to do it for $12 for the labor(or free if you want to donate time). Also you could offer to accompany her to help select the fabric and supplies if she would like help with that. And you could also give her a list of some places she can take some quilting classes so that she can learn to do it herself.
I wouldn't touch it for $12.00 for labor either as it would take at least 6 hours to make the table runner including quilting it and then only if you are doing s-i-t-d. My time is worth more than that. $12.00 would barely get me to go with you to the fabric store. I recently had a gentleman call me because he wanted to have a quilt made for his wife for their anniversary and he gave me less than a weeks notice. Luckily for him he only wanted 1 fabric on front and back(I used a flannel backed satin) and all over quilting. I was able to get it done in time and I charged him $200.00 and yes I know that I under charged him but he was also talking about making one for his daughter as well. I had $30.00 in fabric and already had the batting but factoring in that would have been $20.00 I spent 7 hours quilting and binding it so you can do the math I got about $21.00 per hour to quilt it. I still think he got a deal as he gave me a very short window and I did this on my only day off that week. I work a full time job as well. He just happened to be lucky that nothing was on my frame at the time as I might not have been able to get it done for him.