Originally Posted by
brenwalt
I pretty much quilt "full time" and for the most part, I give my quilts away. "No one has enough money to buy them." On rare occasions I have done quilts of varying types for friends, or friends of friends. I do keep track of my hours involved. I keep track of my materials cost and on the invoice for the materials cost, I indicate how many hours were involved and then tell the person to "let their conscience be their guide" and I accept what they offer.
Quilting is a labor of love for me and there isn't any way I can put a price tag on it. I could never do quilting for a living. I'd starve to death!! LOL
Ditto, Ditto.
About 15 years ago, a co-worker found out that I was a quilter. She asked me if I could repair a quilt she received as a wedding gift 9 years previously. She wanted to be able to hand it down to her daughter. The quilt was a queen size log cabin in 2 inch strips, a lot of the seams were coming apart, and some of the strips were disintegrating. It was half machine quilted, and half tied. She didn't care whether i tied it or quilted it, it was up to me.
I took on the task, no time limit. I frogged the whole quilt, repaired all the seams and missing areas, provided a new batting, sandwiched it, and hand quilted it in an overall fan pattern.
She asked how much I wanted for fixing it, I just told her to buy me a queen size batting.................. come to think of it, I never did receive the new batting. LOL, oh well, but I did have fun doing it.