Though it is sweet to think otherwise, once someone pays you to make a quilt you are now a professional not a hobby babe. And it goes downhill from there.....
The potential buyer sees what you do as having a monetary value, consider that a compliment and recognize that you only devalue your work when you take a token labour price. Nobody appreciates "free" or "discounted goods". When someone in this day and age buys a designer anything on sale it gets treated like a discount item because subconciously the buyer sees it as inferior and not worthy of the same care as a full price item. There is a ton of marketing science behind pricing. So if you give it away cheap prepare for it to be treated as cheap and easy to replace.
Family and close friends are one thing, co-workers are another. I did a bunch of linen embroidered work for a church at cost and learned my lesson on perceived value....
Last edited by Trippgal; 12-29-2013 at 08:41 AM.