I can't help with the price on that, but I'll tell you something else on pricing.Mockingbird wrote:Alright, legitimate question here guys:
How much should I charge per hour if I'm sewing something for someone? She bought all needed materials and had me go with her to the craft store to give advice and steer her towards stuff and accessories that wouldn't be as expensive, but not cheap enough to look and behave like cheap fabric does.
Most seamstress contracts I've found online have the seamstress listed as at least $20 an hour--and that's just for their time. Materials had to be customer provided or additional money had to be given to the seamstress to cover the materials. I'm, uh, definitely not skilled enough for $20 an hour.
Would $10 be a good hourly rate?
Speaking from my mom's experience as she's been sewing for people for more than a decade in her free time, I say it's important to take into consideration the dificulty of what you're making. That's what's actually priced - along with the quality of the final product, not the actual sewing time. Because you can sew the exact same thing in let's say 2 hours and 4 hours with having the same result if you're a slow or a fast worker or if one person is more skilled than the other.
Not to mention that if the person gives you a deadline of let's say 2 days you can charge more than if you have no deadline. If you charge by hour, in this case, you will work the same amount of time and the price will be the same. If you price by dificulty and time available, then the price is higher - in case of a deadline.
Then you should take into consideration the quality of fabrics and everything you need in the sewing process. Because some fabrics are harder to work with than others.
But you probably know all this if not most?
Anyway, I hope this is at least a little useful.
Here's a question for you. How will you prove to the person you're sewing for that you worked x amount of hours?
