Selling Your Goods?

Yea Chey, same here. Several years ago I worked on the school bus as an aide with the special ed kids. I always had my crochet bag with me and would work on things while at the bus garage, and on the bus when we weren't dealing with kids. Someone always wanted what I happened to be working on. Unfortunately, I don't have any contact with 'real' people anymore outside of the internet.

thank you so much for the kind rating, ldy!

Thank you for the kind words. I try to stay away from the same old thing everyone else does. I can't do the fancy patterns like some, so I try to vary the colors and width of the stripes, etc. It works for me, and I've never had anyone NOT like what I've done. Hospital gift shop is a GREAT idea! I may have to check that out, thanks ...

Sweetie, it's basically a store with fixed prices, there is no bidding or auction. I've done quite a bit on eBay in the past, but most of this sort of thing doesn't really sell well. Etsy is all handcrafted items, so only people interested in that sort of thing would be looking.

Thanks, Tink. Its very cheap to list (if I read it right), so I will probably go ahead and give it a try.

I did go ahead and sign up and its a fairly simple process to put up a listing. I have two baby blankets up and will probably list another baby blanket and two afghans today. Deea, go ahead and take a look. It's free to join and only .20 to list an item and it's good for four months. You don't pay anything else until/unless it sells, and then it's only 3%, which is good. What kind of crafts do you do? My store is at MACrochet.etsy.com if you want to take a peek at what I've done. If you do sign up, use MACrochet as the one that referred you (I don't think there is any referral bonus or anything, but it might show that I'm an active member helping the site). Let me know what you do!

The items I make aren't very intricate and are very simple to make. I don't like to do the very elaborate patterns, I like to be able to crochet while watching TV, in the car, waiting at Drs office, etc, and it's hard to do if the pattern requires you to keep count. They're pretty easy to do, but I've always got compliments on them.

Your blankets are very pretty. I do them also. I have some on consignment in a specialty store but the problem I have with the blankets is how to price them and make any money!?! The yarn costs so much most of the time to get the nicer yarn for baby blankets that you would have to charge so much. I do make them for the hospital, we had ordered some baby yarn mill ends and got them for a good price, so we are using that yarn for the charity donations but the place has recently gone out of business.