Craft Business
Pricing Shipping Into a Handmade Product Without Losing the Sale
A maker can price a handmade piece carefully, account for materials, time, and a fair margin, and still lose money on the order...
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Every project note we have published, newest first. Finished pieces, failed attempts, and the occasional argument with advice that sounds tidy and falls apart at the workbench.
Craft Business
A maker can price a handmade piece carefully, account for materials, time, and a fair margin, and still lose money on the order...
Sewing and Textiles
A skipped stitch, a pulled thread, or a seam that puckers no matter how carefully it is pressed usually gets blamed on the...
Games
Pixel art has a strange reputation among people who have never tried to make it.
Craft Business
A quilter I know spent eleven hours on a custom commission, a queen-size memory quilt made from a client's late father's...
Tools and Workspace
I spent two years cutting and sanding wood in a corner of a bedroom with a single window that faced a shared courtyard, which...
Games
A surprising number of hobbyists who sew, carve, or bind books also lose whole evenings to a cozy farming game, the kind where...