What would make you excited enough to want to buy that hand spun hand dyed yarn?

Question

I am a fiber artist and would like to know what would grab you and make you have to have that hand spun hand dyed yarn. I work with exotic fibers like alpaca, bamboo, camel, hemp, llama, silk & of course, merino. Is price really factor when getting something this extravagant or is it about yardage? When checking out something really expensive would you rather have (80-200 yds) rather than none?

Answer 1

I myself am not much of a crafter, but my mom is a knitaholic.
If she sees something she really wants she will buy it even if it costs a bit more.

Is it possible to put your product with a pattern or instructions on how to make something with it. Kinda like a kit. For me, because I am not that creative, kits attract me because it is all together and I don't have to come up with an idea of what to make,

Answer 2

hi.
Well, you have to look at it like this. You are selling a specialty product. It's definitely okay for you to price in the higher ranges. Remember, though, you want to look around for similar products being offered, not just any old yarn but other peoples handspun/dyed, and try to price similarly or competitively.

I'd say that with handdyed things at least some part for me is how many yards in a skein/hank. Mostly because of the large variations you can get between the colors of handdyed things.

The biggest thing that gets me is the colors. Some of the natural colors (camel, alpaca, llama) can be just absolutely fabulous. Also, with a lot of peoples handpaints. Like I've been looking for sockyarns. And even in the plant manufactured yarns I've been having trouble finding solid colors that I like.

Answer 3

I'm a tactile shopper when it comes to yarn, the texture has to appeal to me, The colour draws me in, but the way the yarn feels in the fingers is the big thing for me. At the yarn shop they tease me and say I have eyeballs in my fingertips because I say let me see the yarn, then i touch it. I often shop with my fingers. I prefer to buy yarn in larger quantity balls rather than tiny little 50gram balls. I guess for me it's a combination of colour, texture, uniqueness and quantity. I personally would rather buy a larger ball for a bit more money. Larger hanks of yarn can also mean more consistency in the dyeing. Handmade yarns are always worth the extra expense, at least for me. I can make one of a kind items with one of a kind tarns. Yarns speak to me, they tell me what they want to be knitted into. BTW-I love alpaca and silk yarn. I have an old shetland lace book and that combo knits up into wonderfully soft shetland lace scarves. I've just started a sampler with bamboo, it's quite unique!

Answer 4

the clarification why i do no longer purchase hand spun,hand dyed yarn isn't through fee. it is through fact it is non repeatable. Hand spun ability the yarn heavily isn't a typical stress so till I knit a stress swatch i won't be attentive to how plenty yarn i visit desire. If i assume incorrect and desire extra i does no longer be waiting to get extra from an identical batch.

Answer 5

I am a spinner, dyer, and lifelong knitter. An hand spun, hand dyed yarn has to have colors that grab my tastes, enough yardage to be useful, and a hand that feels right to me for the given project. It needs to be clean, well skeined, appropriately labeled for washability, fiber content, grist, and yardage. Pricing depends on fiber content and how well dyed it is. I am not going to pay top dollar for soft drink powder dyed yarns, nor would I pay top dollar for Romney. Merino/silk, yak/merino, especially superwashes, would catch my eye and my purse.

Answer 6

My mom is a knitter and she will buy any yarn that has a pattern with a pretty picture next to it. She's not one to look at a yarn and then visualize a project. You have to show her a finished object or a picture, and also she has to be able to buy the instructions along with the yarn. I don't know if she's typical or not.

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Answer 7

Its color, it's beauty, its uniqueness and its texture. In that order.

A set, limited edition of the yarn would make it more special and desirable to me.

Marketing ploy: make little tags that tell all about how it was made and end with a statement about how it is a limited edition and no more will ever be made exactly like it again.

Answer 8

No. Try using commercial skills. Like if someone in that commmertial was skinny ansd then other people would think iff they tried that they would look skinny.