How Quilting Makes Money
Nationally, quilters receive an average of $135 in fees for quilting a simple queen-sized quilt (90" x 100"). And that doesn't include markups on batting and materials.
Finish just 2 1/2 quilts every week and you'll earn $17,400 the first year, enough to pay off the cost of the premium APQS Millennium. Other APQS machines pay for themselves even faster.
Plus, where demand permits, you can stay as busy as you'd like. Some APQS quilters finish over 300 quilts per year... learn more here.
Return On Your Investment - They Look Like This:
Average queen size quilt is approximately 90 X 100 inches.
The average price for machine quilting* with a design that is fairly simple (by no means heirloom quality) is approximately .015 cents per square inch.
At this price, that queen-sized quilt would bring you approximately $135.00 in labor costs alone.
When you look at these figures in terms of your investment in the machine, it breaks down like this:
It would take approximately 128 quilts to pay of our top-of-the-line Millennium at $17,400. This would be an average of 2.5 quilts per week for the first year of your business. Wow! That really puts it into perspective.
It would take approximately 114 quilts for that first year to pay for a Liberty at $15,400. Average: 2.1 quilts per week.
For the Freedom, all decked out with lots of optional equipment at $11,650: It would take approximately 90 quilts with an average of 1.7 quilts per week for the first year.
And the Discovery would take even less time and fewer quilts!