Just my two cents. I am a handquilter for hire. I have very few customers these days as most people have it done by a longarmer. My prices start at 10 cents a square inch and go up. I also charge extra to mark and bind. It usually takes me at least a month or more to do a bed size quilt. The bigger the quilt the longer it takes. If I supply the backing and batting I charge a little over my cost for the inconvience.
There are at least a half dozen longarmers between my two guilds. They all do a good job and several are outstanding. I recently had one of them quilt a king size top for me that I purchased from a vendor at one of our quilt shows. It was just an over all pattern and she did a wonderful job. It cost me $167.00. I supplied the batting and backing and will do the binding when I get up the energy to wrestle with that monster. The quilt is for my step-daughter's 20th wedding anniversary. She is a nurse-practioner and washes all of her bedding, sheets, blankets, quilts etc. weekly. I knew that a handquilted item would not survive her laundry practices.
I went to Lancaster PA with some other quilting friends this summer. There is a shop there that sells beautiful quilts that are handquilted. A throw size was $5000. The "stitching" was unbelievably fine.