How much would you charge for an applique quilt like this in queen size?
03-08-2011, 06:17 PM
#181
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Moot point now -------- I for one am glad she decided to go simpler as I didn't feel that this was a quilt that you really wanted to do (no matter what the charge). You'll have fun shopping for fabric with her and she'll get to see (and hopefully understand) what all goes into the making of a beautiful quilt.
03-08-2011, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by carolaug
http://www.amishquilter.com/amish-qu...ique-c-74.html
link to some Amish quilts.... http://www.amishloft.com/amishloft/quilts.html (this site has beautiful quilts)
Cutting and piecing the Amish quilt together - Labor time 400 to 700 hours to make just one handmade Amish quilt.
A high quality Amish quilt will usually have between six to eight hand quilted stitches per inch or more than 50,000 stitches throughout the entire quilt, depending on the size
I think they get the price also because of what it symbols...A different lifestyle.
link to some Amish quilts.... http://www.amishloft.com/amishloft/quilts.html (this site has beautiful quilts)
Cutting and piecing the Amish quilt together - Labor time 400 to 700 hours to make just one handmade Amish quilt.
A high quality Amish quilt will usually have between six to eight hand quilted stitches per inch or more than 50,000 stitches throughout the entire quilt, depending on the size
I think they get the price also because of what it symbols...A different lifestyle.
03-08-2011, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Eddie
I have a customer that I made 3 quilts for them to give as Christmas gifts back in December. Two of them were simple patterned lap size quilts, and the other was a full size rag quilt. She wants me to make them one for their guest room now that will be queen size and like the pics shown below. The quilt shown below is a lap size one that I did and she wants basically one exactly like it, except in queen size (92 x 98) . The leaves are all fused on and machine appliqued using a blanket stitch, and it's all done in batiks. I quilted it on my longarm as the quilting shown. I don't believe money would be an object, but I really have no idea how much to charge for something like this - it is labor intensive because of all the appliqued leaves, but I don't really know what would be reasonable and fair to charge for something like this.
What do you think?
Edit to add: She also wants two matching queen pillow shams made to go with it, same design on them as well.
What do you think?
Edit to add: She also wants two matching queen pillow shams made to go with it, same design on them as well.
The quilt is awesome, love the colors, but don't have a clue as to what would be a fair price.
03-08-2011, 07:00 PM
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I think that the word awesome is over used EXCEPT in this case. This is awesome. I think that $1200 is fair, depending on the cost of fabrics in your area, considering the 2 shams in addition to the quilt. Certainly, no less than 4 times the cost of materials PLUS the normal charge for longarm quilting. It also depends on how much you want to do another quilt like this...That is a lot of hand cut leaves and applique. Good Luck to you on getting the best possible amount of $$$ for your beautiful work!
03-08-2011, 07:11 PM
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The lady wants the quilt, it is an exceptional quilt, labor intensive, I agree with $1200, maybe $1500. She can decide if she wants it after you give her the price. It is not a matter of how much I could or would pay, it is what the quilt is worth.
03-08-2011, 07:40 PM
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For the quality of work you do, $3.84 per hour is way, way too cheap.
Originally Posted by Eddie
By my calculations, the fabrics will be about $210. I figure it will take about 30 minutes per leaf, and there will be about 80 leaves on the quilt, and about say 10 on each pillow, so about 100 leaves - so that's 50 hours. Plus the time to make the top itself and then about 30 hours of quilting. So if we say 80 hours, the price that I was thinking of asking comes out to only about $3.84 per hour in labor - I just don't want to sell myself short.
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