Marianne Fons said that she thinks a qualified quilter should get $2,000 for a king size quilt. Not her asking price, but the price any quilter who knows what they are doing should ask. She said we are worth it. If we painted a painting that size, we would surely ask a lot more than $2,000. We are artists, just like painters. I just snowballed 27 blocks and it took me quite a while from the beginning (choosing the different fabrics, cutting the fabrics to 4 1/2", drawing a line down the middle, sewing them to each corner, cutting the excess off, and ironing the fabric over) to the end. If someone wants to buy this quilt, they won't realize how much work went into those snowballed corners. They don't look like much work, but they are. In fact, quilts don't look like hard work, but they sure are!
Finding the fabrics that look good together takes skill. Finding the right pattern for the fabric is also a skill. All the ironing, cutting, measuring, sewing, quilting, etc. takes so much skill and patience. We get frustrated and make mistakes and parts of making a quilt are very boring and other parts are very challenging. And few of us can work on it from start to finish at one time. We have to do it around our family and jobs and housework. Some of us have to put everything away at the end of the day and then get it back out the next time we're able to work on it. We are very special people!!! We are awesome people!!! We are quilters!!! We deserve a heck of a lot of money for our artestry.