This question has always bugged me. I aways give my blankets and projects as gifts. Im not a fast crocheter, but i love it and have considered possibly crocheting items to sell. I do think most people i know would not pay so much for a blanket, though, which means it would not come out as profitable between materials and time. Thank you for attempting to help answer this question. Its tough! So, for now, I'll just keep making things as gifts!! ~Liz
I will probably end up lowering my price on this as I do have a vendor show coming up and would like for it to sell. Sometimes you’ll get that one person that just loves it and understands the handmade nature of it, so they pay the higher price. Other times you really have to get a gauge for who your audience is and go off of that.
That’s a great question. I feel like the blanket has to be something unique and different… or maybe the blanket is a personalized crochet image of some sort… My thinking is that Simple granny square or similar blankets, even like mine, won’t get attention like something more unique or personalized would.
Where do you live?! 19$ an hour is a LOT for a part time job. Someone else made a video and said the minimum wage were they lived was 16$. The minimum wage where I live is 7.25$. I worked a part time job and only made 9$ an hour.
Right now I’m only making $12.50 an hour at my part time job but when I made this video, I was making $19 an hour. So it certainly does vary for everyone. $19 definitely isn’t the minimum wage for my state though. I think we really just have to base our pricing off of cost of materials and what we feel our time is worth to us.
Thank you for sharing! I didn’t have a tennis ball, but I was able to stick a hook through a stress ball. It’s taking some getting used to but I do feel like it has relieved a lot of the strain and pain that can come with crochet.
Check out the pattern here: www.etsy.com/listing/1459791698/crochet-mug-rug-pattern-easy-mug-rug?click_key=4eac6a8d75d0def80cbd69f695c2ef89ac5bebfb%3A1459791698&click_sum=47577faf&ref=shop_home_active_1&pro=1
