Comments on: How to Price Your Quilts - Part Three http://www.quiltingbusiness.com/how-to-price-your-quilts-part-three/ How to Start a Quilting Business Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:09:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Don http://www.quiltingbusiness.com/how-to-price-your-quilts-part-three/#comment-161 Don Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:18:46 +0000 http://quiltingbusiness.com/?p=31#comment-161 Fran, what kind of quilt do you only charge a hundredth of a cent for? It costs more than that to put it on the machine! Fran, what kind of quilt do you only charge a hundredth of a cent for? It costs more than that to put it on the machine!

]]> By: Fran Gurka from Knob Noster MO http://www.quiltingbusiness.com/how-to-price-your-quilts-part-three/#comment-144 Fran Gurka from Knob Noster MO Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:58 +0000 http://quiltingbusiness.com/?p=31#comment-144 I have met people that want a quilt made for them, with personnel requirements. I have givent them a price from high to low, I explain, the cost of the materials, the time spent designing the quilt, or if a quilt block pattern is used, the layout of the pattern and materials, shopping for the materials and then putting the quilt together. I do provide in detail the cost of materials, number of hours spent cutting sewing and quilting and time for desing or layouts. What do you do if they baulk at your cost? They seem to always figure the low figure is their cost. They do not hear about all the expenses that are involved. Then they say, "I can get his quilt at Wal Mart or Targe really cheep." I have a machine quilting business and I am always explaining why the quilting is so expensive. We usually charge between .01 cent per sq inch to 2.25 cents per sq inch. In my area this is about what the other machine quilters are changing. How do you explain the actual time and work that goes into the quilting, these figures are not high. I can go on about his for ever. I do not understand people that want a quilt but do not want to pay what it is worth. I know they would want their time paid for. What do you say? Thanks Fran from Knob Noster MO I have met people that want a quilt made for them, with personnel requirements. I have givent them a price from high to low, I explain, the cost of the materials, the time spent designing the quilt, or if a quilt block pattern is used, the layout of the pattern and materials, shopping for the materials and then putting the quilt together. I do provide in detail the cost of materials, number of hours spent cutting sewing and quilting and time for desing or layouts. What do you do if they baulk at your cost? They seem to always figure the low figure is their cost. They do not hear about all the expenses that are involved. Then they say, “I can get his quilt at Wal Mart or Targe really cheep.” I have a machine quilting business and I am always explaining why the quilting is so expensive. We usually charge between .01 cent per sq inch to 2.25 cents per sq inch. In my area this is about what the other machine quilters are changing. How do you explain the actual time and work that goes into the quilting, these figures are not high.
I can go on about his for ever. I do not understand people that want a quilt but do not want to pay what it is worth. I know they would want their time paid for. What do you say?

Thanks

Fran from Knob Noster MO

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