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I charge by the inch. I do NOT trim or square up a quilt. For my personal quilts, I leave the backing and batting untrimmed until after I have the binding stitched on the top. Then I trim. I find it helps make less puckers in the backing that way. I fell that the customer may have her own way to add the binding and they can do the trimming too.

I don't charge a setup fee, but I do have a minimum charge for small quilts, which is essentially to cover the loading time on something that only takes an hour to quilt.

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Originally Posted by kristakz (Post 7271611)

I don't break my fee out - I think X per square inch is pretty self-explanatory, and easy for customers to understand. I also don't charge for thread, but do have additional fees for backing & binding if they want anything done there.
I did institute a minimum fee, to cover the loading/unloading for smaller quilts. Anything under 50x40 (200 square inches) hits my minimum.

This is how I did it, when i was for hire......no complaints from anyone either.......although I do know of some who itemize.....my question is how does one figure thread cost?...can't not use thread and do the job!

Thank you Ghostrider. Great info.