[Nfb-krafters-korner] button holes and baby sweaters

[Henry Osborne]

Hi Joyce and Cortney, this is a sad but true fact about trying to sell your 
craft items. people just don't consider how much time, effert or cost it 
takes to make even a simple scarf.
Terry and I try to buy our supplies as low cost as we can to try to get back 
something from the total cost that we put out.
We have nothing against churches or craft fair venues taking a share in the 
total sales of all of the vendors, but, that also cuts into our profits.
Henry and Terry

-----Original Message----- 
From: Joyce Kane via Nfb-krafters-korner
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2016 5:11 PM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Cc: blindhands at aol.com
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] button holes and baby sweaters

Honestly, I knitted up a bunch of baby sweaters and put them up on EBay.
Now I had Halloween sweaters, little boy and girl sweaters and I knitted
them all the same and just used different color solid color yarns.  My
uniqueness was I searched all over for unusual buttons.  Examples:
Jack O Lantern buttons, John Dear buttons, flower buttons, Castle buttons,
Giraffe buttons, teddy bears, sail boats, race cars, dump trucks,monkey and
banana buttons, You get the idea.  I sold more of these sweaters to people
at fairs for dolls to wear then for babies.  Ebay was a real bust and
putting them up for auction I didn't even make enough money back from a sale
to pay for the 3 buttons, never mind the yarn, shipping, and fees to EBay.
So I just gave the last baby sweater to a friend to give to her sister's new
baby girl[expecting any day now.

People don't appreciate nor want to pay for your time at all.  The world has
changed a lot in the past 30 years as far as craft shows, even church fairs,
etc.

Joyce

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Courtney Fulghum Smith via Nfb-krafters-korner
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2016 11:36 AM
To: List for blind crafters and artists <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Courtney Fulghum Smith <cmfulghum at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Knit sweater class

>
> A tip I've heard concerning buttons on a baby sweater is to sew on
> buttons & then on the button band sew on snaps behind the buttons.
> Tadda, no button holes & you can still use all those cute buttons. I
> see no reason why this can't be done for adult sweaters.


Another suggestion for baby sweaters, use them for doll clothes. They don't
fuss about them not fitting correctly or being to itchy.


--
Courtney
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