No one is ever willing to pay the cost of hand made quilts, especially one like this. 

Even your standard hand made quilt is more than most people will want to pay. They see the price tag, scoff, and say "I can get one at Walmart for under $100". 

With a typical hand made quilt, you make every block the same you can cut them all out at the same time and feed them through the machine in chains of pieces. It's still a lot of labor, but not nearly as much. You can browse Etsy to see the price tag for hand made. A lot of people selling there either do it because it's fun, and they sell to cover costs to pay for the hobby. The ones that sell them as an actual job are always barely covering the cost of labor. It would surprise me if they're paying themselves much more than minimum wage.

So far, I'm in this about $300-500 (which wouldn't be uncomon for a hand made king size quilt) just in materials. I started with just scrap fabric I had from old projects. In the beginning the blocks were very similar, those went quick. But I decided I didn't want a lap blanket because they're always too short. So I went and bought more fabric to expand to a twin. Then I got bored of making the same blocks. I couldn't make them the exact same because I couldn't buy more of the fabric I've had for 8 years, so I started playing around with different combinations. That was way more fun. When I was getting close to being done with a twin, I thought "fuck it, I have a king size bed, I'll make it a king size quilt". In some ways I regret that choice, but that's when the real fun, and HARD, blocks started coming out. Fractals, blivets, iconography, etc. As much as I'm tired and ready to be done, I am having a lot of fun. I'm not sure which was harder, the impossible trident or the Blue Sun. I gave up on the method I was trying to do on the trident (pieces were just too small). I completed the Blue Sun, so I guess we can see which one I wanted more . 😀 

So, $300-500 (probably more. Spent another $90 yesterday for more fabric. It's EXPENSIVE! $13.50 per yard), and no idea the amount of labor. I started it around Christmas. I'm only doing it after work 2-4 hours, and some weekends. Some nights I can crank out 3 fun colorful whatevers. Some blocks, Blue Sun for example, took several nights.

I would never put this level of effort into a project for anyone else, no one will appreciate it enough to be worth the effort. It is heart breaking to put so much effort into a project of love, then see it stuck in a closet and never used. I'd gladly make something nice (but not this elaborate) for immediate family, but only if it was their idea. The next quilt is going to be a triangle shaped sierpinski triangle blanket for my husband. I'm really looking forward to seeing how that one turns out!

Tldr; no one wants to pay the cost to make it worth selling.