For quilters

Your stash, finally on the books.

You buy fabric in yards and fat quarters, batting by the roll, and thread by the spool — and somewhere between the flimsy and the longarm, nobody wrote down what that quilt actually cost. Your stash is real money sitting on shelves. MadeKeeper counts it, costs it, and tells you what each finished quilt made you.

The app is live. Free during the pilot. Founding rate $19/mo, locked for life.

No card to start. Use it free through the pilot, and lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.

How MadeKeeper maps to your sewing room

Fabric by the yard, precuts by the pieceLog bolts in yards and fat quarters as fat quarters. Each quilt's recipe pulls the right amounts down, so the stash count stays honest — and a destash gets priced from what you actually paid.
A recipe per quilt, cost per finishTop, backing, batting, binding, thread, and the longarm bill if you send it out — set it once and every quilt of that pattern carries its true cost the day you finish it.
WIPs are inventory tooA flimsy waiting for quilting is money already spent. MadeKeeper knows the difference between a UFO on the shelf and a finished quilt ready for the fair table.
Booth, Etsy, and commission in one ledgerA quilt sold at the guild show, one sold on Etsy, and a T-shirt quilt commission all land in the same books — with the was-this-show-worth-it math on every fair.

One throw quilt, to the penny

Say you finish a 60" × 70" throw:

  • 9 yds quilting cotton (top + backing) @ $12.99/yd$116.91
  • Throw-size batting$14.99
  • Piecing and quilting thread$4.50
  • Longarm service, 4,200 sq in @ 2.5¢$105.00
True cost of the quilt$241.40

Price it at $425 and you kept $183.60 before fees — a real number to hold up the next time someone at the fair asks why a handmade quilt isn't $80.

If you make baby quilts, MadeKeeper keeps the materials and batch records that CPSIA paperwork asks about — in the app instead of a binder.

Straight about what's live

Materials and true cost per piece, products (in bulk or one-of-a-kind), sales that drain stock, the was-this-fair-worth-it event math, mileage, expenses, and the year-end tax packet — all in the app today. Etsy and Square sync, your own storefront, a booth card reader, and shipping labels are building, shaped with founding makers. Nothing above describes a feature that doesn't exist without saying so. See the full live-vs-building list →

Questions quilters ask

Can MadeKeeper track my existing stash?

Yes. Enter fabric in yards or fat quarters at what you paid (or a fair estimate for the mystery pieces), and every quilt recipe draws it down from there. A destash sale logs like any other sale, so the money comes back onto the books.

How do I handle longarm costs?

If you send tops out, add the longarm bill to that quilt's recipe as a line item. If you longarm your own, log thread and batting as materials and your machine time stays your labor — visible in the profit-per-hour math on every sale.

Does it work for commissions like T-shirt quilts?

Yes. Log the commission as its own piece with its own recipe — including materials the customer supplied at zero cost — and MadeKeeper shows what the job actually paid you for the hours it took.

Ready to see your real numbers?

The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.

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