Does she
pay for the fabric or is that coming from you?

The problem that Cea mentions is that the customer is paying for the fabric,
and the designer is marking it up. So a 20% discount of the fabric is not as
much skin off the designer's nose as the same discount would be off Cea's
service price.

You get the picture? It's not fair, really, for the designer to ask this, IMO.
Apparently, she doesn't "get" the whole concept of making a profit--unless it's
the concept of herself making one.

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati