How much should i charge for hand-knitted scarves?
I have made quite a few of those fun-fur scarves and i was thinking about selling them at a craft fair. how much should i charge for them? they are 3-4 feet long and it took 2 balls of yarn for each scarf. again, i used lion brand fun-fur. i am going to be selling in pennsylvania. any experience?
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first you charge for the materials
then you pay yourself for every hour you knitted
then you add thirty percent, thats the profit
or
twenty bux
if its a craft fair
sell water and potato chips
and scarves
i wouldnt go lower than twenty.
and
fun fur is sort of had its hey day
so try to look at rowan patterns for more up to date
stuff that way you wont knit for naught
get it
lol
Rule of thumb for pricing is 3 times the cost of the materials.
Dear Amy,
Thanks for your great question! I have sold hundreds of scarves since I started selling the scarves I design and knit in August 2007.
My scarves use the same amount and price range of yarn you use, and retail for $40-48 each. At craft fairs, I often sell my designs for $30 each for one, $25 each for more than one, so it’s a discount.
You can see examples of my work at http://cricketscreations.etsy.com/
Please note, it’s the talent, not the time or materials, that people are happy to pay for. A scarf that uses more than one yarn in an artistic way is likely to bring in more than a scarf with only one stitch or one type of yarn. I have seen scarves that are all Fun Fur, with the same stitch throughout, go for $15-20 at craft fairs.
I hope that helps, please feel free to contact me with any further questions.
Celeste (Crickets)
you need to think like a customer, first off if it cost you only lets say $10 to make the scarf minus the number of hours. would you actually pay over $40 just for a scarf when you can make 3 or more scarfs for the same price?
the answer is no way in this solar system, you need to price the scarves so that they actually sell, so people will want to buy them. my thought is that you price the scarf the cost of material times 1.25 that is more reasonable then trying to sell the scarf for over 40 to 60 dollars.
You will NEVER get paid for the time it took you to make the scarf. There is a woman in my area that makes afghans and is selling them for $30.00. Figure out the amount of material and time she had put into making just one. The suggestion of the material times 3 sounds like what you will get. You do know you can put a price on it and lower it but there wont be too many people there that will bargain with you. Sorry I have been with this and tried to sell crochet doilies and only sold one item and overheard “My grandmother used to make them”. I am very sincere when I tell you I hope you will do exceptionally well.
I work in a yarn store and I have to tell you, fun fur and all the other furry and eyelash yarns are out of style. The supplier tries to tell us it’s coming back again soon and it’s still big in California but we don’t sell any of that anymore and have not sold any in a year. Although we still have it on the shelf, it just had it’s day and we can’t even sell it for half price now.
Lace is big now, lace shawls and lace scarves sell like crazy and you can get good prices for them. And they are fairly easy to knit.
But you still need to get rid of your old fun fur. Maybe you’ll find some teens or little girls who like them. They like fuzzy stuff. If you’re at the craft fair anyway, put them up and see what happens. I wouldn’t charge more that $15-$20 maybe you can sell them at that price.
Look around craft fairs in your area and check out what other sellers offer and at what price. That will give you a good idea of what the market is like and if you can sell your scarves.