I was given the 5 balls of yarn to knit with but have to buy the knitting needle since I don’t have that one yet. The blanket is 46×36 and is a baby blanket. They want it by Thanksgiving weekend. I wanted to charge $150, which would be like $3.75 an hour for work. I just wanna know I am charging the right amount because my boyfriend said that was too expensive. I think he is wrong though.
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That sounds like a lot to me. How fancy is this blanket? I would expect to pay the cost of the needles plus $50 max but that’s just me. I wouldn’t really consider an hourly wage so much since it can be done in the car and while watching TV.
I’ve been charging $2 an hour for friends and $3 an hour for strangers for my crocheting.
Good luck on getting that kind of price! I do very intricate crocheted afghans and the best offer I’ve ever had for one was $80 (I provided all materials and tools).
You should get the price straighened out before you do the work. Unless your work is absolutely perfect and the pattern is very unusual and complicated, the labor cost for a baby blanket would be more in the $25 to $50 range.
Well, 150 divided by 3.75 is 40. That means you figure it would take you 40 hours to knit something that’s 3 feet by less than 4 feet. That must be a very complicated stitch! Even if it is, you have to go by what a baby blanket would reasonably cost, not an hourly rate, unfortunately. $50 seems like a reasonable fee if you do exceptionally fine work, but make sure you discuss it with them before you start.
Unless you are able to sell in a High-End Boutique or Specialty Baby Clothing Store you will never be able to earn a decent hourly wage knitting. Keep your baby blanket pattern simple, use the biggest needles possible (you can’t charge for needles if you are going to craft for a living, after all you are going to keep them when you are done) and be happy with $10/skein.
ALWAYS make sure you and your customer have agreed on a price BEFORE you start any project.
Most people that do handcrafts usually get paid about $.25 an hour. That is why many of my friends will not do commission work. People just don’t want to pay for handwork.
Charge whatever you think you can reasonably get from the client. But be sure you have settled on the price before you start! You must be very new if you don’t even have the needles yet! Better get started on this one, because you don’t have that much time left.
I wouldn’t do it.
But I don’t knit to sell. It doesn’t pay off.
When you knit to sell, you are allowing someone else to pick a pattern, a yarn and, usually, a timeframe. This is annoying and cumbersome for several reasons:
1. There are some knitting patterns I do not want to knit – they are usually those picked by people who do not knit and therefore don’t know the time/difficulty of a certain project.
2. Some yarns suck. They split, they’re a pain to work with and, like the knitting patterns, are usually only picked by people who don’t knit and don’t know any better.
3. Knitting is a fun thing. When someone else puts you on their timeframe it automatically becomes less fun because you have to do it. And you have to do it now. Or it won’t get done.
4. You can never charge as much as you should make.
I offer to teach people to knit things themselves but I never, ever knit for pay. If someone requests something and I love them lots, I will knit it for free. But, as soon as money’s involved, there are expectations involved, and it’s a recipe for disaster.
Now. All that said.
Most of my friends charge through the nose for what they knit. Usually, they take the price for one skein of the yarn they’re using for the project (say the yarn is $5.00 a skein/ball/hank) and multiply that by the number of hours they work on the project. So, for forty hours, that would be… $200. They keep track of their hours, though, when they know they’ll be selling a piece. They don’t just count up an estimated number of hours.
You can give someone an estimate before you start a piece, but I would tell them that it’s only an estimate and, like with a car repair, you won’t know the actual price until all labor is completed.
So, no. Your boyfriend is not right. You do deserve much more than 3.75 an hour.
But I doubt you’ll get it from anyone. No one wants to pay 200.00 for a baby blanket.
I hear crocheting is a lot faster, though, you could try that….
It’s true that a lot of handcrafters are underpaid, but that won’t change unless some take a deep breath and charge what they’re worth. A handcrafted baby blanket should not be around the same price as a mass manufactured one. It is handmade, and therefore worth more! I would charge between $20 and $50 an hour for craft work if you have the skill to make high quality items at a reasonable speed. Of course, if you’re slow, you actually have to charge less (say $10 – $15 an hour) because your lack of reasonable speed is a technical ‘deficit’ when making/selling handcrafted items. One thing, if you’re charging more per hour, is to use high quality, durable materials wherever possible, so the price is justified by the longevity of use of the item, and/of added beauty of the better materials.
Wow wish i could get $20-$50 an hour, i work for 2 very well known wool companies and a well known pattern designer and they only pay that sort of money if it`s a complicated pattern, or a lot of work needed to complete the item. I would be looking to charge about $50 for a baby blanket unless its a very complicated pattern.
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