If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
I’m a crafter. I knit, I crochet, I sew, I make my own note cards. Over the years, I have heard a lot of people tell me I should sell my stuff. And believe me, I thought about it. I even bought one of those Complete Idiots guides. It was all about selling your stuff on Etsy. There was even a list I made of all the things I could sell and who I would have to give credit to. Since I don’t design my own patterns, I looked at the patterns I’ve used to see what the designer says about selling things made from their pattern. Most of them are fine with it as long as you acknowledge where the pattern came from.
These are some of the things I though about making to sell:
I had this grand plan during the years I was a teacher. But then I realized that I would have to spend my entire summer making things to stock my shop. I wouldn’t have time for it during the school year. So I never did anything with this idea.
Even now though, when I have more time, I don’t want to do it anymore. Making things to sell would take the fun out of making things. Truly. I make things because I want to. Doing it because I have to (i.e. I have an order for it), would just ruin the experience.
I do, however, think it would be fun to have a table at a craft fair or one of those makers markets. Just once. Put my stuff out there and see if people like my items enough to buy them. Pricing my projects with a number that is both appealing to a shopper and fair to the time and effort I put into making it is a whole other story though.
A market would still be fun I think. And it wouldn’t be something I would have to do repetitively. Unless there were other markets I wanted to sign up for.
Ultimately though, this is realistically never going to happen. Well, probably not. It’s fun to think about it though.
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