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How much would you hypothetically pay for this?

ï¿½13.50 and not a penny more

21%

[ 3 ]

ï¿½16.00

35%

[ 5 ]

ï¿½18.00

[ 1 ]

ï¿½20.00

28%

[ 4 ]

ï¿½other suggested below

[ 1 ]

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toggle

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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 9:33 am Post subject:

jema wrote:

You simply can't play the pile it high game with crafts, and I think you would find that if you relax about selling quickly and build up a well presented inventory of craft items that can be presented on a decent web site, then sooner or later the items will sell.
The math is clear.

item material cost ï¿½8.

Sell 3 at ï¿½12, profit ï¿½12.
Sell 1 at ï¿½20 profit ï¿½12. work load 33%

exactly.

tahir

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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 9:39 am Post subject:

toggle wrote:

jema wrote:

exactly.

Yup

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 9:48 am Post subject:

gil wrote:

Have you thought of doing the same thing with a hat kit ?

I already do an 'acorn cap' kit, and I'm planning on a pixie hat/pointy hat kit too (really really wild colours in a feltable wool and a choice of two patterns in the same kit)

You are all wonderful, I'm slowly starting to get my head around this

toggle

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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 9:51 am Post subject:
another thing to consider is a felted slipper kit, make an oversize sock, felt it to make a slipper.

gil
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 9:53 am Post subject:
Matching hat and socks set for the more experienced knitter ? Hat with earflaps and a pair of boot socks (outdoor, rugged; either bright red or sludgy, earthy, neutral) Nightcap or other hat for wearing/posing indoors and a pair of slipper/indoor socks

Stacey

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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 10:00 am Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

[You are all wonderful, I'm slowly starting to get my head around this

Good!

dpack

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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 11:58 am Post subject:
other ,on practical grounds materials for 2 pairs good socks and a hobby ï¿½15 or , supa funky hobby ï¿½ how much cash have they got, his n hers sock knitting needs proper thought and marketing as a must have maybe ï¿½30 nice wool

bernie-woman

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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 12:12 pm Post subject:

Definitely needs to be priced around the ï¿½20 mark I think - or even a little more - I bought an Opal sock knitting kit for my first pair of knitted socks which came with 100g of wool - enough to make a pair of socks and it also included the pattern to make a little gift pouch with the remainder (which I never made but appealed to me at the time

) - it had a pair of metal knitting needles (nowhere near as nice as wooden ones) - all for ï¿½12.00 and that was 2 years ago

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 4:28 pm Post subject:
what about a bag like this? Would look pretty with the wool in it I think bag

Stacey

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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 4:41 pm Post subject:
Very nice - I like that

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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 4:42 pm Post subject:
am getting a sample sent through so I can work out if the pattern needs folding in bizarre origami to fit, but its looking the most promising so far, I like th emix of nice eco wossname jute plus a window so you can see whats inside.

lottie

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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 8:22 pm Post subject:
That looks good---when you said cotton bags earlier I wasn't keen 'cos I think you need to see it but that's great. Wish you'd got them now because it'd make a great pressie for my youngest daughters birthday in a couple of weeks---she likes making things---if you do a kit with longer socks and I have to miss smallholders 'cos of housemoving are you thinking of doing mail order?

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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 8:34 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

am getting a sample sent through so I can work out if the pattern needs folding in bizarre origami to fit, but its looking the most promising so far, I like th emix of nice eco wossname jute plus a window so you can see whats inside.

Ok, I'd be concerned that the material of that would be coarse and catch on the yarn and cause little pulls in it. Also, would a fine sock needle go through the material, it's coarse woven. Although your dpn's for aran won't be that fine, i'd like to use a nice bag for sock weight needles, 2-2.5mm ones. It looks like a lovelly idea, but is it practical? please test it for that.

If you do get those bags, make up some as samples, but keep a lot of the yarn out so it's colours can call customers over to it and so knitters that shop by touch can feel it.

i'm a by touch shopper, I tend to impulse buy only when i get to hold and stroke a yarn. dosen't even have to be anything particularly soft or special, bog standard yarns get this treatment as well, i just have to let it talk to me, tell me what it wants to be made into and whether it wants to be with me. I've walked away from stalls before when there wasn't yarn I could feel out on the table, it was all packaged up in kits and the assistants uhm'd and aaahh'd at me when i asked to feel it. When you know you have me is when I start to cuddle it like a kitten.

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wellington womble

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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 8:52 pm Post subject:
Definitely yarn is a touchy thing! I like the bags though - never even thought of praciticalities!

lottie

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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 07 8:54 pm Post subject:
I'm sure the bags will be fine---they look a great idea

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