Fall of Leaves shawl
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It sure has been quiet – but I’ve been busy

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Over the last several weeks, I’ve been taking a class offered through the American Crochet Association – called Crocheting for Profit. This has been a REAL eye opener, especially after the two less than stellar experiences at the craft fair. What I’ve learned so far through this class is that I’m really not charging enough! Imagine that. There is a lot of discussion about making a “fair wage” for your handcrafted items and I totally agree with that. But yet at the same time, how difficult it is to compete with someone who charges basically for materials and a few bucks in their pocket or the cheap mass-produced stuffed animals that you can buy at Walmart.

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Bookkeeping & Accounting in Your Yarn Related Business

Your Yarn Related Business – Let’s Talk About Your Stash

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In reality we have two types of of inventory:
1. our raw materials
2. our finished objects
Both of these have value and we must record or track this value (cost), not only to report on our business tax returns but also so that we can also calculate the sales price of our finished item.

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Bookkeeping & Accounting in Your Yarn Related Business

Bookkeeping & Accounting in Your Yarn Related Business

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Over the last year and a half as I’ve been S-L-O-W-L-Y launching Fanciful Things I’ve read a lot of articles, listened to a lot of webinars/podcasts and taken some classes on starting a yarn related business – I’ve gained a lot of useful information but the one area that seems to come up short is bookkeeping and accounting for your yarn related business.

Brooke's Column of Leaves Scarf detail
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My First Knit Project-Brooke’s Column of Leaves Scarf

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All in all, the Brooke’s Columns of Leaves Scarf is a very lovely pattern – perhaps not something a beginner such as myself should have attempted – but hey, I’m an over achiever 😀 It was very well written and my only problem was that for the life of me I couldn’t figure out how to do the p2tog tbl stitch – so throughout the entire scarf I p2tog. At least I was consistent!