Wednesday, August 31, 2011

A quilt's cost

To Anonymous: it depends greatly, but $400 sounds excessive unless it is a king-sized bed quilt requiring detailed, specific, line-by-line quilting. (Though for handquilting...all bets are off. I used to pay $75 for a small-twin that my mom's church group quilted)

I get the quilts I make quilted with an "allover" pattern (not following the seam lines of the piecing). I think the last full-sized quilt I had done, a couple years ago, was on the order of $120.

I paid $80 for two slightly-larger-than-crib sized quilts ($80 for both) that will go to Project Linus.

Not sure what this one will cost exactly; I think she said roughly $90, but that was with a different batting and a tighter pattern.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for replying to my query. I have several old quilt tops rescued from yard sales and junk shops over the years. For the most part, they're not fine and wouldn't be worth handquilting, but they're too nice to cut up and perhaps too fragile to tie. Ideas?