That stinks. It's so hard to know how long a quilt will take. A parent of a student begged me to make a quilt for her daughter--a ragged flannel. I didn't want to because I have all my own stuff I want to work on, but this mom was sure her daughter wouldn't survive school ending without something from me. :roll:
So--they bought the fabric and I told them $15 an hour, but it wouldn't go over $300. It came to less, but not by too much. She paid the $300 anyway. And--yes, I'm glad I did it in the long run. :D
I price quilts after I make them (if no one in the family takes a liking to it. :wink: )--but will never do a quilt on request for money again. Too hard--too time consuming.
People just don't know what they're really worth and how much time goes into one.