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Ok - need to remember everything

supplies = $200

piecing @ $10 = $300

Quilting (13,216 sq in. x .04) = $528.24

binding (224" x $.25) = $56

total = $1084.24 which really doesn't account for any mishap which I generally have - don't ask why - just me............... I have always thought I should raise my piecing prices............. but since I am not in business and do very!!!!!! few quilts - don't want to bother and most often I charge a song and not what is listed above............ The last quilt I sold - appraised at $1600 & gave it away for just over $300 - time involved - about 45 hours. Am I cheap or what?????

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Okay here's my guess.......$1892.50 but that doesn't include a label, so add another $15.00 for a grand total of $1907.50. I can't wait to see what the actual charge was. And since you have to give this gorgeous quilt away I think you should charge her another $500 on principle alone.

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i would charge $2250 minimum.

break down:

materials $200

labor $25/hr = $750 (i didn't forget cutting)

quilting (all that premarking and ruller work) .06= $800

binding by hand and a show sleeve: $500 (i wouldn't bind by machine- keep it 'heirloom')

i would ask for the right to enter it into some shows...

can you tell i've done this before? :) i tell people wanting to commision a quilt start to finish: "it's cheaper if i teach you how to make your own"

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Piecing - 30 hours @ $12.00/hour = $360.00

Quilting - 118" x 112" = 13216" @ $.03/" = $396.48

Material Cost = $200.00

Total (without binding) = 956.48

Binding - 118" x 2 + 112" x 2 = 460"

460" x $.25/" = $115

Grand Total (with binding) = $1071.48

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Ok, I'll estimate...........

set up fee $ 25.00

Thread fee $ 25.00 likely to be more

Batting $23.50/meter $ 70.50

Fabric $ 200.00

Binding $25/linear meter @ 11.7 meters $ 292.50

Custom Heirloom @ $80/sq meter $ 684.00

Cutting/pressing/farta$$ing around time 2 hrs $ 55.00

Sewing 32.5 hrs @ $27.50 $ 893.75

Total $2,245.75

In Australia we would pay a lot more for the fabric so I would estimate conservatively another Aus$288.00 on top of this price. The likelyhood is that the fabric would add another $300 to $400 depending on the quality. If custom quilting might as well go for the good stuff!!

Intersting topic.

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I'm probably too cheap on this one, but guessing $1252.80 with binding completed and a promise my name would appear on the label and rights to enter shows with it.

This quilt is very lovely - get your price whatever you decide.

This is why I'm not doing custom quilting anymore, people just don't want to pay you for the time and effort. I do it for a few select friends and myself but that's it. Hard decision, but I can finish simplier overalls and pantos and make up the difference in the hours it takes for a custom!!! That's my 2 cents.

Good Luck!

Sharon

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I'm guessing about $1800 to $1825. Like Joyce I'd probably get half of that!

I just had a customer for whom I added blocks, sashing and borders. Total with quilting was $436. I supplied the batting, backing, and extra fabrics. I also did the binding. She was upset with the price!!!:mad::mad::mad: The quilt was 99" x 99".

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In Canada........ we pay way more for our fabrics, probably double, but I think our custom quilting rates are less...I was involved in a heirloom project, The other gal did the fabric, piecing, and all finishing binding etc., I did the quilting.......End price...............$1500.00. That project was a king size quilt, so slightly smaller, 110" sq.

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Okay, I wanna play!

Fabric $200.00

Piecing 30 hours at $20/hour: $600 (I try not to do anything for less than $20 an hour)

Quilting 30 hours at $.05 (at least) per si:$660

I'd charge at least $1500...of course, no one would pay me that, unless it was Monopoly money:P:D

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I would say a minimum of $2000 but I doubt that is what you get. The piecing is wonderful and the quilting really sets everything off. Very few people understand the time, effort, and skill involved in doing a total quilt.

Someone asked me to do a king size quilt for him. I told him he couldn't afford me.;)

Pamela

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