A lil' thing from Instagram!! I made these to wear for the Chicken Run sequel, but honestly I think making some chimkens im general was looong overdue.
Any opinions on Dawn of the Nugget? I've got mixed feelings about it... 💭
Seeing crochet clothing being 'in' now is always kind of frustrating as someone who can actually crochet for shit (evidence attached) because as much as I'd love to be able to maybe sell some of that work, ultimately you can't compete with that store (machine?)grade shit. A crochet maxi-skirt made from granny squares is selling for AUD $60. AUD $60 wouldn't even cover the cost of the materials (in a nice, wearable quality yarn). :/
Well at least when I make something I know it's not gonna be basic bitch shit -
Sorry to just drop into this, but another thing to consider with handmade good and the ‘overpriced’ idea is that you also have to factor in how much stock might sell at any given time.
For example, if you make 100 pairs of earrings in a month but might only sell 30 (because you need to give people options etc.) then the profit from those 30 should reasonably cover the time you spent making all 100.
Also, it should pay for the time you spend at craft fairs, replying to any commissions/ purchase requests, packaging time and going to the post office, any online marketing you might do (tumblr posts etc).
Peolle don’t often factor these in when thinking about the value of crafts they buy, which is a bit unfair.
yes there are other overheads but the thing is. basically all of those to some extent also apply to fibre arts
but sure. to be thorough. i spend 10h a week at my market stall and an hour... let's say 2 be generous with it... updating the shop
if i made 50 pairs of earrings and sold 15, the "materials" cost of 1 pair, to cover their unsold breathren, goes from 42p to £1.40
earrings are far from the only thing though, and account for less than half of the sales. so. we can say that about 5h of stall/shop time is covered by those
(plus the hour it took to make them)
sale price - materials cost but split over 6 hours of labour instead of 1.5 is still £12 an hour
I'm having a closing down sale on the Etsy shop - 75% off all orders over £20 until the end of May. Due to the abundance of dropshippers and the changes they've made, its not worth it for me anymore. I may move to another platform, but I will see how things go.
Don't mind me, I'm just throwing another ad for my Etsy shop into the void. Some jewelry, some keychains, some crochet accessories. Everything handmade by me.
I also take custom orders for crochet.
The shop is called WidgetsApparel (I named it after my cat). There's a link in my pinned post, my blog description, and the notes of this post.
After literally months of procrastination, we have finally decided to start posting stuff!
We will not immediately be accepting commissions, but we are very excited to share all of the creations that have already found their forever home/were commissioned in the past, our project plans and other small trinkets.