Another week flown by! I blinked and Sunday is here, yet again. This week has been fairly productive. I've managed to get two new reclaimed yarn listings up on etsy. The first being a vibrant Shamrock Green 100% cotton listing and another a reclaimed and bulky Lambs wool-Angora blend which is just a beautiful golden ecru color. I'm a complete sucker for natural fibers!!!
This weekend I've been researching ways to increase viewability and get sales. While I know that these yarns are great quality, it doesn't do a bit of good if I can't get it viewed and sold. One thing I am in the process of doing is calculating yardage to break up the bulk listings into one listing that features the individual cake or skein sizes. Right now, each listing is basically for the full amount of yarn salvaged. I wasn't aware of how to calculate yardage based on size, so I've now learned to do so. I've calculated the quantities of each cake and skein for each of my postings based on WPI and bulkiness if the yarn. I suppose my mind needed the workout, but once I figured out the approximate yardage per ounce, it's easy now. I will be creating a master yards per ounce template for each type of yarn bulkiness from dk/sport to extra bulky. I intend to share that for free here on the blog to save others the time. If you find my calculations to be off, please correct me, though I feel confident in the approximates.
Long story short, this makes the listings a little more customizable to the needs of the buyer. I'm also price checking competitors and similar items so I can create my own master formula for price per yard, per yarn quality. I'd like my prices to be comparable, and also not short change myself or the buyer. Reclaiming yarn certainly is not a huge money maker in consideration of time and being unable to manufacture the process. It is very much a one woman operation here, lovingly spending hours deconstructing sweaters for yarn on the sheer principles of being consumer conscience, Earth healthy, and eco-friendly. Ok, ok, yes...I'm on over-doer....but once I set my formulas, pricing will be a breeze. ;)
Otherwise I'm working on a new listing of this acrylic yarn. I thought it was a self striping yarn of the green, blue and purple range. Turns out to be two seperate self striping yarns. I crocheted a small swatch to show the colors in seperate rows, and then combined. I may do two seperate listings, not certain yet.
Well, it's off to one more episode of "The Last Alaskans" on Hulu. Something about remote living in COVID19 days is soothing to me as an escape from the negativity on social media. Have a great week and stay crafty!
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