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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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sally_in_wales
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 5:34 pm Post subject: Pricing help again please, sock kit

Just developing a sock kit for the smallholders show. You get a choice of wool in roughly 200g skeins like this (enough for two pairs of socks)

a set of handmade walnut double pointed knitting needles and a pattern, end result looks something like this.

Was thinking of ï¿½10 a skein for the wool (100% wool, superwash, aran weight in hand dyed shades 200g approx), but how much for a kit? Does ï¿½13.50 sound reasonable given that it makes 2 pairs of adult chunky slipper socks?

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Stacey

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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 5:37 pm Post subject:
Stop guessing and work out yer hours woman! It's about 11 quid for a kit that gives 100g Opal and bog standard bamboo dpns. Yours has enough for 2 pairs! Hand dyed! Handmade needles! ï¿½13.50 is not enough.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 5:42 pm Post subject:

This one is hard though, the wool came ready skeined, so I just had to dye it in that 'hang it in the pot and go and do something else' way, the needles are batch made and we normally charge about ï¿½3.50 a set, and the pattern is a very basic beginners one that I tweaked for this yarn. I want it to be cheap enough to tempt lots of sales (I have about 35 skeins of the stuff!) I normally charge ï¿½2.50 for 50g of chemically dyed pure wool yarn, so ï¿½10 per hank is sort of right except this was hand dyed whearas my normal range that I sell to the re-enactors is bought in dyed and rehanked for them. Just trying to find the hapy medium between that and the 'sell lots' mark

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 5:43 pm Post subject:

Stacey wrote:

It's about 11 quid for a kit that gives 100g Opal and bog standard bamboo dpns. Yours has enough for 2 pairs! Hand dyed! Handmade needles! ï¿½13.50 is not enough.

Ok, thats useful, maybe ï¿½16 -ï¿½18 would be better?

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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 5:45 pm Post subject:
This one is ï¿½16 for 100g of wool similar to yours https://curiousyarns.co.uk/sock_kits.html There's happy medium and there's working yourself into the ground for jack. Sally, there's no 'just' about what you do. Your time and skills are worth charging properly for. Last edited by Stacey on Mon Apr 23, 07 5:47 pm; edited 1 time in total

Stacey

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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 5:46 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

Stacey wrote:

It's about 11 quid for a kit that gives 100g Opal and bog standard bamboo dpns. Yours has enough for 2 pairs! Hand dyed! Handmade needles! ï¿½13.50 is not enough.

Ok, thats useful, maybe ï¿½16 -ï¿½18 would be better?

For 100g but then you'd have to reskein it I guess.

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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 5:49 pm Post subject:
ok, turned into a poll for a broader idea of what might work

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 5:50 pm Post subject:

Stacey wrote:

you'd have to reskein it I guess.

I wondered about that, I know reskeining makes it look much funkier but the added time adds cost, and I really want these to be 'must have' show buys

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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 5:52 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

Stacey wrote:

you'd have to reskein it I guess.

I wondered about that, I know reskeining makes it look much funkier but the added time adds cost, and I really want these to be 'must have' show buys

I didn't mean for the colours , I meant that you'd have to reskein to get 100g - the colours look lovely as they are. I wonder if people would want 2 pairs of socks in the same colourway.

Personally I don't think price has too much influence over what makes a 'must buy' at shows. If you sell it too cheap people will wonder what's wrong with it. It's hand dyed, hand made needles, made in wales etc etc - being sold by a striking looking couple.

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sally_in_wales
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 5:54 pm Post subject:

Stacey wrote:

I wonder if people would want 2 pairs of socks in the same colourway.

Was going to pitch it as 'his n hers' knitting, is that too corney?

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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 5:56 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

Stacey wrote:

I wonder if people would want 2 pairs of socks in the same colourway.

Was going to pitch it as 'his n hers' knitting, is that too corney?

I don't think so - I think that would be a good selling point.

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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 5:59 pm Post subject:
Took me one gentle evening to knit the sock, so I'm hoping it will appeal to relatively novice knitters who like the idea of doing socks for the family. The pattern is basic and simple to follow, so I was going to set it out as a 'fun socks for your loved ones' package and really push the 'socks make great presents' aspect.

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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 6:29 pm Post subject:
As long as you don't miss out the fact that it's a luxury kit for beginners. Most beginners start on a ball of acrylic and some metal needles. I can't come up with a price and I think what's throwing me is the fact that it's 200g of (very pretty) yarn. You need some input from the coven.... errr... sockmakers - where are they all?

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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 6:45 pm Post subject:

Silly question probably, but thinking presents and thinking women and thinking men. (I mean normal people, not us obviously) Women would probably like to knit socks for the men in their lives, most standard men won't wear pink/blue/yellow socks. So do you do browns and greys and creams etc?.

Also, If I were going to knit a first sock, I would probably want to knit a longer one, so could you scale a kit to do one pair of longer boot socks or two pairs of short socks? Perhaps just adapt the pattern a bit?

Hope that helps.

From a price point of view as a buyer, I would think..how much would I pay for a pair of handmade socks? ï¿½5.00 or ï¿½6.00? So if I'm buying the kit, I would probably not want to pay more than that, as I'm supplying the labour. I know it's Sally's time, but we all know how wonderful her stuff is, the average punter will just look at price. I think ï¿½13.50 is maybe what a punter would pay, but it's still a lot for an impulse purchase.

MarkS

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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 07 7:48 pm Post subject:

Stacey wrote:

Stop guessing and work out yer hours woman!

It's about 11 quid for a kit that gives 100g Opal and bog standard bamboo dpns. Yours has enough for 2 pairs! Hand dyed! Handmade needles! ï¿½13.50 is not enough.

The marketing & business courses going well then ?

My oh says that steiner somethings sell kits for children at exorbitant prices - although they are 'beautiful'.

Apparently

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