Business Question
Last year I started a sewing business. Recently I was hired to make a quilt for a church friend. I gave her an estimate based on the hours I thought it would take to piece the quilt and we agreed on a price based on the hourly rate I have for quilting. But the quilt is taking longer to piece than planned. I'm not sure what to do. I want to be honest and fair. I've told her that it's taking longer and she said OK, but I haven't told her how much longer it's taking or that it means that the price would go up because of the hours I have invested into the quilt. I'm not sure what to do. I've thought of a few different ways to handle the situation, but I'm not sure what is the best way of handling it.
I could just leave it as is, because I did stress in the beginning that this was only an estimate.
I could charge her just my sewing hourly rate ($12) as opposed to my quilting hourly rate ($15).
I could give her a percentage off of the price, but I'm not sure how much percent to take off.
I could just comp her the price for the actual quilting price ($150/King sized) and just charge her for the piecing, or charge her for the quilting and not the piecing.
I could just comp her for the extra hours that were not included in the estimate.
I'm really not sure what to do here. Any thoughts? What would you do, or what would you expect if you hired someone to make you a quilt?