Why are crochet items priced so high?

There are two main reasons for this.

1. Crochet items cannot be produced by a machine. Every item we produce and sell that is crocheted, is made entirely by hand. Humans must be paid a living wage. We try to pay 10 USD per hour for crochet items.

2. Crochet takes TIME. Of the crocheted items we offer, the time each product takes to make ranges anywhere from one hour to thirty hours to produce. This means that we must pay someone for every hour of work required to produce an item.

If you are paying department store prices for a crochet item, you are supporting slavery.

Tobi uses the following price formula.

Where h ( time in hours),  m (materials cost), p (item's price):

10h + m = p

This means that an item priced at 80 USD likely took around seven hours to make and ten dollars in materials.

Why don't you offer [item]?

Most of the time, it's cost related. We cannot offer them at a reasonable price.

Blankets take more than fifty hours of work and often 100-200 USD in yarn to produce.  The base price would start at 450 USD, and most people simply aren't willing to pay that much.

Scarves are offered seasonally, usually in the fall/winter period (Northern Hemisphere). Prices start around 100 USD.

Bandanas are simply more time consuming to make than they sell for. On average, they take about four to six hours to make, and most people are not willing to pay 60 USD for them.

What is a "test piece" and why is it so cheap?

This is an item that was initially created to try out a new pattern, technique, or colorway. These items may not be considered a success and are often sold at reduced prices to account for that. This helps move them from our inventory more quickly.

Tobi's pricing formula is changed to the following for test pieces: 7.5h + m = p