[sricks3]

My wife is a quilter and has mentioned the same thing. It's hard to sell a bed-sized quilt for $1200+ when people don't understand the work that goes into it (and even the materials are more expensive than I would have guessed). She's started writing quilt patterns and has a few that will be featured in upcoming publications and subscription boxes. She's about to set up an e-commerce system to sell digital patterns on her website, but she has no interest in selling physical quilts at the prices she'd need to in order to just break even.

[massysett]

The only way a quilter in a rich country could sell profitably is to approach it like art. Get the quilt into a gallery and sell it as a wall hanging. The instant you sell a mere bed covering, you’re competing with factory labor in poor countries. Their labor is way too cheap to compete with.

Many sellers of handmade items will have the same problem.