Fiber Arts for People and Places

The price of a piece is based on the cost of the yarn, plus time/intricacy of the piece.  Acrylic yarns are typically much less expensive (and have easier care requirements) than natural fibers.   As for time, intricate knitted pieces can take dozens or hundreds of hours compared to straight-forward crochet.  When you're looking at a hat and a blanket and wondering why they are both $40, its yarn plus time.   The exception to this is "The Yarn Hoard" (see below).

When I'm buying yarn now, I'm inventorying exactly where and when I bought it, how much it cost and taking the care instructions from the manufacturers' label. You'll see that information in the product description and it factors into the price of the piece.  But before I started Sir Knits I would  "cake" the yarn (put into a ball for easier storage) and the label identifying the manufacturer is gone, so exact instructions for care are not available.  For these reasons I do not include the cost of the yarn in the price of the item and cannot guarantee the care instructions.

You are buying a piece of useable art.  I cannot make things "perfectly" to a machine-made standard.  I am transparent about the cost of my materials, where I find my patterns and where the yarn was purchased (when possible). Everything I make is one-of-a-kind, made by hand to the best of my ability.  

I rarely do custom pieces.  There are so many variables that making something to order -  that I would be proud of and you are pleased with - well, it would frankly make me very anxious.   If you have ideas of things you'd like to see (say,  a green and blue cable knit hat and scarf set or a Crocheted "Rocket" from Guardians of the Galaxy ) you can contact me with your idea and if I make something like that I'll let you know and you can have first dibs on it.