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$15 each at boutique. Seems fair.
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Love your fabrics. Where did you get the football fabric? Is it cotton?
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if you buy fabric, $12.00 to $15.00. most people think of paying only $5.00 for anything!
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Even Wal-Mart sells the kits for $8.00 each. Depending on the fabric you could be looking at $20.00 a piece.
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I would say 15.00 is a fair price. I love making those tube pillows!
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Hi Cindle...I heard Martha Pullen say that you should get as much as you can for what you make! I love to sell the stuff I make and I like to get 3-4x the cost of materials. so if the fabrics cost $10.00, try to sell the sewn article for $30-$40. I think we tend to undervalue our work.
Karen in La. |
but if the pillow material costs lets say 7.00 who is going to pay 28.00 t0 36.00 for a pillow case...
Originally Posted by smockingRN
Hi Cindle...I heard Martha Pullen say that you should get as much as you can for what you make! I love to sell the stuff I make and I like to get 3-4x the cost of materials. so if the fabrics cost $10.00, try to sell the sewn article for $30-$40. I think we tend to undervalue our work.
Karen in La. |
Well, The seamstress can always sell for less... that is where the undervaluing of our work starts. We do save money by sewing for ourselves, but ordering a custom-sewn article is no way to save money! If the prospective buyer wants a low price, she should sew the pillowcases herself! It is not our job to make cheap stuff for penny pinchers! ;-)
Karen in La. |
This penny pincher has no 0 balance on credit cards, paid off morgage and no car loans...I love being thirfty...I can spend more on other quality items (such as LQS material/sewing machine and travel//I buy quality but look for the best deals and don't buy things I do not need (mostly...LOL)...and love having NO debt...; ) My wedding cost $50.00 I did not want my parents to be in debt over a simple cermony...been married for 29 years and saved the money that would have been spent in a day for a house down payment. So many people I know divorce over money issues...that is one fight we have never had. ; ) and yes...I do spend alot on large purchases...but do not spend alot money on the little stuff that adds up such as clothes. (I wait for the sales) : ) Now if I only could teach my grown kids the same...LOL...
Originally Posted by smockingRN
Well, The seamstress can always sell for less... that is where the undervaluing of our work starts. We do save money by sewing for ourselves, but ordering a custom-sewn article is no way to save money! If the prospective buyer wants a low price, she should sew the pillowcases herself! It is not our job to make cheap stuff for penny pinchers! ;-)
Karen in La. |
Hi Carol! Me, too...No debt here! But I sew to save and make money. I think the seamstress deserves to make some money!
Karen in La. |
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