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The problem is a lot of people(read: family) want me to make quilts for them to give as gifts. I have already made quilts for everyon for their B'days. My sister wanted me to make 2 quilts for her goddaughters. I said materials would be around 125 to 150 . I was going to charege $1.25 per hour for labor. Well she hit the roof...expected me to do it for free and she thought the materials were too high. She wanted twin sized quilts.
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Originally Posted by Jan in VA
I found this 15 years ago on the internet. It really makes one think about the value of ones work when put in this context. I'm sorry for the format of it, it doesn't translate well when pasted from my documents.
What It Really Costs To Make a Quilt QUEEN SIZED, MACHINE PIECED, HAND QUILTED MATERIALS: Fabric 12-16 yards @ $9per yd. $108 - $144 Batting $25 - $40 Thread $8 - $16 Total $ invested $141 - $200 LABOR HOURS: Piecing 20 to 60 hours “Setting” (designing your quilt) 10 to 20 hours Quilting 100 to 750 hours Total hours invested 130 to 810 hours TOTAL COST Paying $1 per hour (Would you do this type of work for $1 an hour?!) Materials $141 - $200 Labor $130 - $810 Total $271 - $1070 Paying minimum wage $7.25 (by law in 6/2009) Materials $141 - $200 Labor (130-810hrs) $942.50 - $5872.25 Total $1083.50 - $6072.25 Paying skilled labor wage $20 per hour (Don't you consider yourself trained and skilled in this craft?) Materials $141 - $200 Labor (130-810hrs) $2600 - $16,200 Total $2741 - $16,400 (Found on the Internet 1995; unknown author) Jan in VA I think that is a pretty good estimate. |
Here, hear.
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Originally Posted by bearisgray
YUP!
Still wonder how some stores can sell any sized "quilt" for under $100. They are made in China with crap fabric and rotten thread and slave labor..... |
Non- quilters don't appreciate the work or cost that is involved in making a quilt. There are some quilts that I have given that I wished I had kept. :-)
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I keep all my quilts until the room is full hahahahhaha
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When we used to sell at craft fairs, if someone made rude noises about the price of a bed quilt, we would say,
"you should go to Kmart, I'm sure you will find something you like there." Well we thought about saying it.... |
A girl I work with said to me "I should get you to make my sons king size quilt for his bed, I already got the material for it. How much would it cost me?" I said for a king you will need at least 500.00 down and she liked to have a coronary, she said, I guess I'll just have to do it myself. This was about 5 years ago, I asked her a couple of months ago if she had ever gotten to it she said it was to time consuming and she never did get past "cutting out the pieces." hard-e-har-har!!! She actually asked me last week to make her a comforter for her new grandbaby, I had to tell her I don't make comforters, she said "well I thought a comforter would be fairly cheap compared to a quilt"....Some people
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Before I started quilting I had no idea how much a quilt cost. But the fun is worth the price.
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Jan, I just thought of something. You mentioned that machine quilting would be less of course, but then the price of the LA??? YIKES :D
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