i knew that i had worked on it for 100 hours and spent $200 on the supplies. i would only be making $300 for the 100 hours, not a very good wage at all. but then i would ask myself, would i rather have the $500 or that particular quilt? the answer might be that i'm not all that attached to the quilt, and the joy was in making it, not keeping it. that $500 might go toward the cost of more fabric, or patterns, or sewing machines, or it might help out in a more practical way. so the quilt that cost $200 to make might even go out 