goosepoint

I may print this out and put it with every quilt I have and send it to my 3 girls whom already have 2 a piece. When I am called 'home' one day they can look back and maybe appreciate my 'hobby'. I commented one time that it was cheaper therapy making quilts than it was going to a 'head' doctor and taking Xanex and Valium. I just maybe wrong about that.

Kim Bohannon

lol and i wondered why no one in my area will buy quilts! and no one charges what they are really worth! boy... we could all be rich if we could selll our 'hobby' quilts at $20/hour for labor alone.

TonnieLoree

By brother keeps telling me I should sell them on E Bay. Um, I don't think so.

sueisallaboutquilts

Yikes!!

SuziC

That is very interesting, but i have never made a quilt for profit at least not yet. I make mostly gifts and donations. Every one is "one of my babies" and that to me is priceless. Maybe we should all post this in the local papers and maybe then non-quilters will appreciate the craft more.

cindysew

And I have customers complain about $.03 per sq. inch to machine quilt. Amazing.

Peckish

I don't make quilts for profit either, but it galls me when people ask me to make a quilt - AND say they'll pay me for my time - but the price they want to pay won't even cover the cost of the fabric.

I made one as a gift for my MIL, it was huge and beautiful and took a long, long time. She made light of it until my wonderful, sweet, darling husband told her to insure it for $7000, because that's how much it would cost to replace it. He did not pull that figure out of the air, either - he added up the cost of my time plus materials.

klc

That is why I do not make anything to sell. I only make items as gifts of love. I like what Goosepoint wrote: "I may print this out and put it with every quilt I have and send it to my 3 girls whom already have 2 a piece. When I am called 'home' one day they can look back and maybe appreciate my 'hobby'." I totally agree!

GwenH

In Canada we pay 16.99 and up per meter of fabric, so they cost a lot more than that here. I have been working on a King Size Quilt for the past year and I wish I would have kept track of how much it is costing me for the fabric, plus not to mention the backing, as I only use flannel on my quilt backs and it costs for that cotton. I've had people ask me about making them a queen size quilt and I told them it would cost at least 1000.00, and maybe more just for the fabric, and then add another 300.00 or more on because I would have to send it out to a long armer to be quilted, cause I can't do one that big myself.
I don't do quilts to sell, as I know that no one would want to pay what they are actually worth, I only give them away to people I love and know that they appreciate them.

GwenH

Cindy, that is a beautiful quilt!!