As a relatively productive spinner, meaning I make lots of yarn, I've been told a few times that I should sell my yarn. I've had this discussion with myself many times over. I've built a big cartel website and put my babies up for sale. There's a few problems with this.
* Spinning yarn takes time. Especially when you process it from a raw fleece like I do. Lets say I make a skein of yarn that takes me a week from start to finish. About 5 hours a day over 6 days. This means washing the fleece, dyeing the cleaned locks 4 colors, combing those locks into a heathered combed top, then spinning those locks into a fingering weight yarn, navajo 3 ply. Please take a look at the photos to get a glimpse at the process.
* Lets say I try to pay myself minimum wage for said yarn so around 8 bucks an hour. So that's $8 dollars times 30 hours total... That would be $240 dollars. I love yarn but not even I would pay that much for a hank of yarn. There's no way.
You have to sell your yarn at a competitive price or you won't sell anything. But how do you do that when you have people who are willing to price their items so low just to make a few bucks? I'm not a person who believes in undervaluing my work. I know what it's worth. So I had to make the choice to stop selling my yarn. It's not worth it.
Let's say I decided to sell that same yarn mentioned above for $5 and hour? That's still $150. Doesn't work for me. I'd rather use my time to make yarn that I love and will use and cherish and show others how to do the same thing.
Hence the new premise of my very neglected blog. I'll be taking my sharing on FB and Instagram and putting all of my processes in one place for anyone who wants to learn about processing fiber and spinning. I'll still continue to share on FB and IG but you can come here and see everything explained in detail with more images and videos.
