I'm getting that a lot lately too -- several people who saw the Shetland Tea Shawl said I should make stuff and sell it.
And I just laugh. The border alone on that thing took me 35-40 hours. Even paying myself minimum wage, I'd have to sell that shawl for well over a thousand dollars to make it worth my time -- and I can't imagine someone paying more than a couple hundred at best. If money's the goal, it'd make more sense for me to take a second job flipping burgers.
Now, if someone wanted to buy something that I'd made just for the fun of working with the yarn or trying out the pattern, and if the price they offered covered the cost of materials and wasn't a sheer insult to the complexity of the project, I could see selling my work. But knitting with the primary goal of selling it -- nope.
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And I just laugh. The border alone on that thing took me 35-40 hours. Even paying myself minimum wage, I'd have to sell that shawl for well over a thousand dollars to make it worth my time -- and I can't imagine someone paying more than a couple hundred at best. If money's the goal, it'd make more sense for me to take a second job flipping burgers.
Now, if someone wanted to buy something that I'd made just for the fun of working with the yarn or trying out the pattern, and if the price they offered covered the cost of materials and wasn't a sheer insult to the complexity of the project, I could see selling my work. But knitting with the primary goal of selling it -- nope.