Hard to figure really accurately.
As someone else said, it depends on wether you are doing for a customer or yourself.
For a customer who has a certain type of fabric in mind, here is a guesstimate of the actual cost, minus labor.
Queen size
pattern: Eye of the Storm (Quilt Almanac 2009, by the editors of Quilt magazine, page67).
24 fat quarters (6yards of fabric)
1-5/8 yards of print 1
3/4 yard print 2
that comes to 7-1/8 yards for the top.
Backing 8-1/2 yards
15-5/8 yards of fabric at, let's say $10.00 a yard = $156.25
Batting (80/20 cotton/poly) Queen size $27.00 retail
Thread 18.00 (C&Clark for assembly, King Tut for quilting).
That comes to $201.00 not counting needles, wear and tear on machines, labor.
When I did upholstery, we charged 15.00 per yard labor (in 1978-82)...we rounded to nearest full yard...so 16 yards labor x 15.00 is 240.00, just for the assembly of the quilt top.
Another 122.00 for simple meander quilting, double that for semi-custom.
Originally Posted by justflyingin
Anyone want to comment with an estimate of how much you spend (not counting your labor) for various sizes of quilts you've made in 2010 or 2011?
In the other thread with this title, we discussed the cost of making a quilt, but no one answered this question--that I noticed.
What are you all really spending on a quilt? Can some of you share what you are spending..and if you pull the fabric from your stash, it doesn't count as "free"--it counts at the price that you paid for the yardage--unless it is truly a scrap quilt of from your used clothing that you were going to throw away.
I think it might be an interesting experiment if some of us would actually keep track of 1. money spent/invested, and 2. hours spent on some of our quilts this year and then compile the information.
Does anyone have this information from your own data...and once again, unless someone else GAVE you the fabric saying that fabric from your stash is "free" isn't playing fair--it's what you paid for the fabric when you put it there--not market value now. :)
It would be an interesting study.