I have made quilts for friends, mostly baby quilts, but also bed size, and I usually charge for the cost of fabric. I once made a log cabin quilt for my best friend and I think I said I would do it for $100, as it was also a house warming present, but that was over 10 years ago. When she asked me to make the quilt for their new log cabin, I told her I had seen just the right pattern. On the cover of a Traditional Quiltworks magazine was a log cabin quilt, with a center of a pieced log cabin, with pieced mountains along with a few maple leaf blocks in addition to the log cabin blocks in a barn raising setting. I still think this was my best quilt ever, instead of piecing the center (which I did, but ripped it out as I didn't like it) I appliqued the log cabin with a stone fireplace, stone walk, with shrubs, bushes and mountains. I used a wood pattern fabric, with one inch strips for logs (it didn't occur to me that I could just use the wood fabric and quilt the logs - LOL), which I quilted by SID. I was showing a fellow quilter the quilt at a meeting, and when someone asked what I would charge to make another one, I quickly said $400, and she decided that was too much, however, the quilt was a lot of work and even $400 was cheap. My friend loved it and it still hangs off the balcony of the second floor next to their stone fireplace. Will I do another one like it - probably not, but as I said it was made for a very dear friend.