You are so right about why people don't understand pricing on handmade quilts. The quilts sold on home shopping networks are most likely made in countries where people are paid very little money for their work. I still don't know how they can sell them at those low prices, although I've looked at ones in Wal-Mart and other retail stores, and the fabric is poor quality and while some are hand quilted, the quilting is not that great. Comparing costs for those quilts and the quilts you and I make would be like comparing apples to oranges, they are not the same at all.