Someone asked me the other day (she's only an acquaintance) in a FB message if I'd make a quilt for a friend of hers who wanted it fir his granddaughter. Queen size. By Christmas.
After I read the request and wiped the coffee off my screen from coughing it out, I wrote back. "It'd be $1300 and not this Christmas . Maybe next." She messaged him and got back to me. "He asked if that figure was a typo or did I mean $130 ?
Nope, 1300, I restated. Waited for his/ her reply. "Okay, he says he can't pay more than $200 so he'll pass."
BTW I borrowed that figure from someone on here. It's scary high enough to drive away the requestors.
and it educates them in the value of time and materials. We quilted have to value our skilled labor. So far I've never quilted for $$ and doubt I ever will.