Somebody at work asked me to crochet her a poncho; she asked me how much I should charge her and I was not sure. Somebody else told me maybe I could just tell her its up to her since she is trustworthy. I do trust her, but if she still would like me to give her a price, what should I tell her?
She told me she would buy the yarn for me, so I am not paying for that.
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It would depend on the pattern. If it’s a difficult pattern or one that’s time consuming (if it’s made of all sc, for example), I would charge more than $40. If it’s an easy pattern, probably $35 or so.
Just to give you some ideas, here is the list of ponchos on Etsy. Some of them aren’t ponchos, but wraps or caplets, but it should give you some ideas.
http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=category&category=crochet&search_query=poncho
set a price on your time and keep track of the number of hours you spend making the poncho and charge that much for it.
Yeah, I know our talents aren’t worth much on the open market, but you can deal with starting at the current minimum wage and always go down from there.
I charge 300 for a rather simple shawl crocheted from hand spun wool. Some people will pay it and some say “I can get a better price at Walmart!” Uh! no they can’t because this is american, hand spun, hand crocheted and I am not Korean! I charge more than .25 per day!
People will try to get away with as little as possible for hand-crafted items. They will buy the yarn for you (usually crappy yarn as well) and then expect you to do it for free.
The cost of yarn is a very small part of the cost of any item that you make. You put far more hours into making something than the yarn is worth. Consider it as a job, and that you should get paid at least minimum wage. How many hours does it take you? At the minimum, what does that come to? Too high? Do you want to work for less?
What you charge is up to you, but don’t undersell yourself. When you charge this little for one, you will find yourself having to charge the same for everyone else, and that is not fair to you. If she thinks it’s too much, offer to teach her how to crochet and she can make it herself. See how far THAT will go!
Unfortunately, our time is very valuable, and we can’t afford to give it away for nothing. The Asian/Indian/African/Caribbean countries are very poor, and people will work for a few pennies an hour, but that is slave labour.
depends on how complicated the poncho is and what size yarn you use and how big the poncho is.
People don’t want to pay what a crocheted item is worth. You’d probably only end up making $1 an hour by the time you finish. To avoid any conflict I’d tell her that I couldn’t do it.
Or you can teach her to crochet her own poncho and charge her for the lessons.
I’ve knit samples for knitting stores before. It does really depend on the pattern and the yarn. I’d say no less than $100, but if it’s a complicated poncho pattern, or the yarn is really hard to deal with, maybe $150 or $200
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