SELLING QUILTS?
03-15-2011, 01:33 PM
#21
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Originally Posted by nycquilter
I will rarely do a commission nowadays for the same reason. I'd rather gift with love than feel that I'm being taken advantage of! However, when I do take a commission now, I ask for the price of the fabric and a donation to my friend's ACS relay for life. That way, more than one person wins!! in fact, we all win. I get to make a quilt (of my choice) for someone, making it with love, my customer (typically a friend) gets a lovely quilt, and ACS can use the money to help find a cure. I love a situation where there are no losers.
03-15-2011, 01:43 PM
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my sister in-law asks me everytime I show her a new quilt "why dont you sell them". I tell her everytime "I dont think people will pay the money that I feel their worth". I make quilts as gifts for family and for my home to leave a little part of me when I'm gone.
03-15-2011, 02:26 PM
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[quote=mimom]my sister in-law asks me everytime I show her a new quilt "why dont you sell them". I tell her everytime "I dont think people will pay the money that I feel their worth".
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Show her a qullt and quote her a price and ask HER to sell it for you. She'll get a nasty shock when people tell her they can get one for almost nothing at Walmart.
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Show her a qullt and quote her a price and ask HER to sell it for you. She'll get a nasty shock when people tell her they can get one for almost nothing at Walmart.
03-15-2011, 02:37 PM
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just think, with the new prices of fabric, soon a queen size quilt will cost $800-$1,000.00 with minimal quilting on it!
Pattern makers like Judy Neimeyer will have to make more table runner patterns. I just priced the fabric to make the Celtic star(the 90" version), and even on sale just the fabric for the top came to $300, then there is backing, binding, thread, batting, the countless hours to make it and paying for quilting!
For a grand, I think I will have to pass on it!
Pattern makers like Judy Neimeyer will have to make more table runner patterns. I just priced the fabric to make the Celtic star(the 90" version), and even on sale just the fabric for the top came to $300, then there is backing, binding, thread, batting, the countless hours to make it and paying for quilting!
For a grand, I think I will have to pass on it!
03-15-2011, 04:56 PM
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Oh, yes. And nobody seems to get the expense in making them or the time it takes. I think that folks who don't know the craft have no appreciation for the effort and consequently don't have a clue about what it costs.
03-15-2011, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Dollysquiltingmom
I have had people ask me if I would sell quilts, I just smile and say "oh hun, I could never get paid the amount that I have in them" LOL then they just have to ask exactly how much do you have in them and I smile and say in a range of $150.00 to $200.00 not including my time then I get the fish face look you know the mouth wide open. LOL Needless to say I don't have any customers LOL. Quilting is a hobby for me something I enjoy doing if I had to make quilts to sell I would not like it. LOL
03-15-2011, 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by darlin121
[spend any where from $200-500 a month on quilting related items and to not recoup that money i'd be broke in no time.
How do you find folks that are willing to pay for materials + your time? LQS told me a few of my quilts were worth $700-1000 I don't think alot folks have that kind of $ for quilts.
03-16-2011, 01:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Kat Sews
I sell when the price is right. One quilt paid a years worth of car and house insurance, property tax, and filled my propane tank for the whole winter.
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