"Knitting for fun, not profit" - Mary Mooney, K2TOG
" I'm knitting away on a pair of Harry Potter socks* when it happens. A nonknitting friend sees my work, admires it and says the "S" word. As in, "You could sell those!"
And I flinch, because I know what's coming.
"People would definitely pay for those!" she says. "I bet you could get $15 a pair for them!"
And that's the point where I explain that the yarn alone costs about $12, that the socks take me around 20 hours to make and that it's really hard to get excited about an hourly wage that rivals that earned by a prepubescent slave laborer in a country most Americans can't find on a map. Only I say it nicely, because I realize she means well; she just doesn't understand knitting economics. "
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And I flinch, because I know what's coming.
"People would definitely pay for those!" she says. "I bet you could get $15 a pair for them!"
And that's the point where I explain that the yarn alone costs about $12, that the socks take me around 20 hours to make and that it's really hard to get excited about an hourly wage that rivals that earned by a prepubescent slave laborer in a country most Americans can't find on a map. Only I say it nicely, because I realize she means well; she just doesn't understand knitting economics. "
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I get those kinds of comments too. I have just decided that I would rather not turn my hobby into a job, it would only ruin the enjoyment of my hobby.
My MIL says the same to me. I know it's a compliment so I don't even discuss the copyright infringement of selling work from other people's patterns, lol! I actually tried coming up with original patterns thinking I'd want to get into designing but it felt so much like work that it wasn't enjoyable.
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