scenario number one: my cook. She asked me the other day for me to make her MIL a hat, she saw the crochet hat that Hermione Bagnold made me in round 1 of the duel, and thought a warm hat like that for her MIL would be good since where she's from, it gets rather cold.
I said ok... she offered to buy me new yarn, but i just said, i'll see if i have something suitable in my stash, i'll just make it from that. I think in the end I'm going to give the hat that Hermione made to the cook's MIL because I can only wear one hat at a time, and honestly hats make me itch... so if said hat wants to go with the MIL, then go with the MIL it shall. Plus I hated making that hat.
Scenario number two: the other day, I was sporting my toast at work, and the "other mary" came by my desk and asked me to make a pair for her. I said that she should just make a pair her self, and that it would be easy. I didn't offer to knit a pair for her... She had said she was going to buy me some yarn and to knit it... I just said, she can knit them herself, even though she doesn't know how to knit.
i think the thing is that i only like to knit things when i want to knit them. I don't want to feel like i'm on a deadline so much... it takes all the fun out of knitting really... like when my mother had asked me to knit her a phone cozy. I did so because she's my mother, and she even helped me wind the skein into a center pull ball, but it did take me a real long time, like a whole month to finish a tiny phone cozy... it's not that i didn't want to knit for her, it's just... i didn't want to because she had asked.
Knitting for money: At the craft store last week, I saw some scarves that the store was selling for around $299-399 a scarf... yes it was on what seems like larger needles and such, but it's really still not enough money in my opinion... What would I charge for the Malabrigo scarf that I made? the yarn was $18 bucks x 3(labour) = $57 USD. Ok, maybe i'll dumb it down to two times the cost of the yarn, $36 USD since it was a fast crochet... but what amount of people do you think would pay for that?*
I should really not devalue my own valuable time.
*V just told me that Nords had a similiar scarf for $34 USD... interesting...
