Yesterday, I attended my granddaughter's Highland dance class, at the invitation of the teacher, who wanted to meet me to discuss a potential job. DD and DGD had told her of my sewing skills, and she needs some costumes made. I came home with a commission for three "Nationals" skirts (fairly simple dirndl-type skirts, not kilts, those might come later) and matching scarves.
Last night I trued the fabric for two scarves (simple 36" squares), and sewed a narrow zig-zag stay-stitch an inch in from all the edges. It took me all of about five minutes for that. BUT! Sitting watching TV, it took almost two hours to pull the threads for the one-inch-all-around fringed edges.
Now my question: Since I'm doing this gratis (bartering at my sewing price for dance lessons for DGD), would it be ethical to have my granddaughter do the actual fringing, and include the time on my invoice? It just seems to me that this type of unskilled work is not the best use of*my* time, but I don't think DGD's time should be free to the teacher, either.
I'd love everyone's input on this, please.
Beverly Ickes BEI Design