You are doing a lot of work. If you were paid $15/hour, then calculate it out. It would seem important to consider the hours it takes to do a project and yet make some money.

Long Arm Quilter.

I love to do binding especially the hand sewing I often offer to do it for others

[quote=Old hen][quote=LeslieFrost]After seeing and hearing quilters complain about binding, I'm thinking of offering a binding service locally. But, how to figure out the charge?

Per running foot of bound quilt seems like a good place to start. What would you think of 15 cents per running foot? That would be $30 for a 50" by 50" baby quilt. Hmm, seems like too much. Maybe a dime per running foot, which would be $20 for that dimension baby quilt.

Is there any other quilt binding service that anyone knows of?




I get 10-12 cents per inch. Includes cutting fabric, pressing strips, and 1 side machine sewn, back side hand stitched.

Me, too. I love the hand stitching part of the binding, too.

I think you meant 10 or 15 cents per inch, not foot, right.

I usually do my own binding(by hand) but for some reason I just didn't feel like doing it so I had a local quilt shop owner do it for me.....I supplied the binding,had it already cut at 2.5" to which she tells me that she only does 2.25" bindings so she said that was fine she'd cut it down and the charge for binding it(by machine) was $30.00. So when I picked it up & went to pay for it I saw she had charged me for cutting the binding down to the tune of $5.00 !!
Seriously????? she could have told me she was going to charge me to do that....then I could have taken it home & saved myself $5.00!! Lesson learned....my this is long winded isn't it? Sorry ladies....
So my answer is no....

I don't know where my message went, but our LQS and most people charge 16 cents per perimeter inch just to hand sew down the binding to front or back. The twin size I just turned and sewed for me took 6 hrs. THere is a separate charge of 4 to 6 cents per perim inch to sew on the binding to the quilt...and another 4-6 cents per perim inch to turn and machine sew down the binding. It is a 2 step process: attach binding, turn and sew binding.

Whatever they asked because I HATE, HATE, HATE to bind a quilt. It is not that I can't do it and do it well. It is only that it takes me FOREVER to do it. I am definitely not speedy with handwork. When someone says that they can bind a baby quilt in an evening. It takes me 4 evenings. It takes me longer to put on binding than it does to piece the top. I machine sew on front and hand sew the binding on the back. I've done some bindings totally by machine and do not like the results.

With that said, my thrifty side would kick in if I had to pay very much.

I love hand-stitching the binding. But that would be a good service for those who don't like that part of quilt making. I think the fee would depend on if you're making the binding and sewing it on from start to finish.