nanac

I live near an Amish community. Their hand quilted quilts are often on display for $1500-$2000. There is always something new, so I presume the others were already sold.
When I retire, my goals are to handquilt ONE quilt just for me, and to make a CW . I assume that both of them will take me a really long time.

Grace creates

Good Luck. I think someone who takes on hand quilting a queen size quilt either does it as a token of love, or a token of love plus a hefty wage.

stichinluvr

You might check with a local church. Sometimes they have ladies that quilt.

palmetto girl

Check with your local senior center, if you have one. Our local one does that for people . I don't know the coat my sister had one done there before I started quilting.

cactusmomma

P-BurgKay: That sounds more reasonable. I hand quilt and I wouldn't do it for any less. People do not realize the time involved in addition to the work and skill involved.

Dina

Thanks everyone. I have passed on the comments to my aunt, and I am just going to suggest that my aunt consider long arm quilting. I think she mainly wants it completed and just thought hand quilting would be the best way to complete a quilt that was hand pieced.

Dina

coopah

I had to laugh at this, because I just finished hand-quilting a queen sized double wedding ring. The cost to me was sitting from 8 AM in the morning to 9 PM at night and stitching. I did take time to eat and do those type of things. I started after the 3rd Thursday in January and finished yesterday. My mother had the quilt over 1/2 stitched before arthritis made her give it to me for finishing. Her stitches are beautiful, and mine are...well. Oh, another cost was callouses on fingertips...I can’t use a thimble, but the plastic pads worked fairly well. So I had to laugh at thinking about the cost. :-)
I had Amish do a couple of queen sized quilts and was charged by the amount of thread they used. I thought it very reasonable, considering all the work.