I noticed that too.

The people that are in the factories making them are doing good if they're earning $2 per DAY. That's why.

They are made in China and the people who do the sewing(including children) get paid almost nothing for their labor. Plus the materials are very low quality.

I bought many of these before I learned to make my own. They don't last a year on the bed before the seams come undone and the fabric wears through. Very flimsy fabric compared to what we buy for quilts.

You know, I used to think that quilts were expensive, but that was before I started quilting. Now I understand. But what can beat a home sewn quilt!

I was in China several times and once visited the 'labor camps' where these cotton products are made. The dorms that the workers live in you wouldn't let your dog stay there. The workers are paid only several dollars a day. It is truely horrible. And.......that goes on thru out the whole far east, India and many other third world countries.
I just heard a radio program today: the guest speaker was a member of congress. He has started a web site so you can discover what products are made with child and SLAVE labor. He said jewelry, cosmetics and cotton goods are the hardest to track the sources. I'll have to see if I can find the site and post it.........!

I completly agree. My sister ask me how much it would take to make a quilt with horses on it. Her MIL wanted to pay me for it. I told them it would be at least 100 $ for material and she said OH really that is alot. I said. Have you ever priced a Amish made quilt?? They are usually at least 700 around here. Needless to say they have not been pursing the idea.

I hope you do, I'd be very interested to see it!

I like homemade verses store bought any day. I want something that no one else has. I frame my own photos as art and work on my own quilts. I am not always good with patterns with patterns but they are mine.

Cheap is cheap!

I can't look at these without thinking of the conditions in which they are made. Man's inhumanity to man.