quiltingbuddy

Purple Passion, where do you find fabrics for $5 per yard?

JustAbitCrazy

quiltingbuddy, there is a website called fivebucksayard (I've bought from and recommend), and there are also inexpensive quality fabrics on etsy, you just have to search for them. I'm sure others will chime in with other websites I'm not familiar with, that have fabrics for that price. I just don't shop online very much.

pastorpatti04

Mennonites are not a less strict sect of Amish!! http://www.mennoniteusa.org/about-us...he-mennonites/
Go to MCC.org and read about quilt auctions and what they raise $ for. Please don't make uninformed statements.

pastorpatti04

Just FYI most quilts auctioned at an MCC sale are at least hand quilted, many are hand appliqued. Our church, as well as many Mennonite and Church of the Brethren churches has a quilting circle. It's fun to quilt together.

cookiemonster

Yes, I volunteer to quilt for Mennonite Central Committee, the calculation in $ is based on labor/time.. The ingredients to make quilt are donated.. So your right your quilt higher if you buy your own fabric. P.S. I'm not Mennonite, but joined to learn how to calculate my quilting.

Bneighbor

Craft people are artists, hence the "starving artist" quote. If we had to live off what we made, most of us would starve! If you enjoy what you do, and do it for fun, then what you charge for you craft is just icing on the cake... Fun and a paycheck too! But most of the public do not see our craft as art, it's "homemade, so therefor not professional. I used to make wedding gowns, and loved it. But I got serious and decided that the hundreds of hours I spent to make someone else's dream come true was not helping me gain MY dreams of a new seeing machine (top dollar one). I re-figured my pricing strategy, and my first 3 years of new pricing came in at a very fair price and the brides were happy. But I had a bride bring me a picture of a $12,000.00 dress for me to copy. When my price came to just under $9,000.00, she almost fainted. She demanded I cut the price. My suggestion was to go to the salon that had the dress and demand THEY cut their price. She said since it was "homemade" how dare I think is should be paid a "professional rate". I escorted her out, thanking her for considering my services and closed the door. I got a call a few days later, she said she was "going to let it go"(whatever that meant) and let me "try my hand at a designer gown" (uh, that is what I do, DESIGN and MAKE the dress). I apologized and told her my services were no longer available and suggested she buy the gown. I am now out of the gown business, after 25 years. I now sew, piece, quilt, embroider, and play. My sewing room, my machines, my time, my rules. Don't like them, go someplace else.
We are artists and we should not apologize for being one, and we should be able to charge a reasonable price for our goods.

pumpkinpatchquilter

I have wall hanging quilts that have more than 150 hours in the quilting alone. "Time" is relative to the piece and the maker. We all work at different speeds, using different methods, and creating work with different degrees of intensity.

nabobw

It would be nice to have that pamphlet when some one asks you to make them a quilt and you then tell them how much it is going to cost.

LITTLEOLDME

Jan ,that's a good cost list, I'm saving that for my tax man to use.

litacats

WOW Jan I could be a zillionare I just nead to be trained and skilled in this craft. LOL