Crocheters Thread

[Sally PB]

Have any of you crocheters/knitters out there had success with selling your work either in person or in online markets? If so, what types of items were sellers?

I had a spinning/knitting business for awhile. I washed, dyed, hand spun the yarn and knit one of a kind, original sweaters. I made a lot more money selling fiber and supplies to other spinners than I ever did selling yarn or sweters.

I am grateful that, back when I had both a steady & decently paying job, I took part in our state's Farm Show sheep to shawl bidding on competition shawls.

Way cool!

That is absolutely amazing and certainly worth the $ for the conversion work and the time - what detail!

That is gorgeous!

I think $300 is nowhere near enough. The $525 + cost of yarn is still a pittance, compared to all that work.

 

[Sally PB]

Back in the 90s, I actually had a woman ask me this question when she was looking at my sweaters:

"Why do you charge so much? You like what you do."

I think the (handknit, original, one-of-a-kind) sweater was the blistering, absurd, astronomical price of $150.

I had another woman ask me how much to knit a sweater out of her handspun yarn, for her to sell. She thought $60 was "way too much."

The people who will pay what the work is worth are few and far between.