New and coming

Here's a few more items coming to the shop soon!

The Ribbed Bonnet with Flower:



This is now available for pre-sale on Facebook!

Breezy Brimmed Newsboy



Will be available for pre-sale tomorrow on Facebook!

Fuzzy Wuzzy:



Will be listed soon for pre-sale!

Lace and Picots:



Available soon!

Still have the apple and cow hats to list as well (from my previous post). We're definitely keeping busy!

New products

I'm a little slow in posting this, I need to get in the habit of doing a blog post every time I post a pre-sale.

Here are a few of our newest products:

Amelia Cowl:



This cowl is SUPER comfy. It's like cuddling with a cloud. It measures approximately 30 inches around, and is 12 inches high. The height is great, and allows you to arrange the cowl in many different ways.

The texture of this cowl is perfect, bubbly and nobby, and provides more interest than just a plain ol' cowl. I am in love with these!





Can be made in almost any colour you'd wish for!

*this product is now available for sale on Etsy HERE

Pattern by Cute and Crafty Crochet: http://www.etsy.com/shop/Cutecraftycrochet

Emily Headband:



This headband has quickly become a favourite in our house. Super comfy, and provides warmth on a cool or windy day. With the same texture as the Amelia Cowl, this headwrap is just gorgeous!











It has a button closure to allow for quick on and off, as well as more adjustability in length. Also allows for you to put it on and off without messing up you or your child's hair (always a bonus on the way to school/work).



This headband is available in baby, toddler, child, and adult sizes.

This is available for pre-sale on Facebook HERE.

Pattern by Cute and Crafty Crochet: http://www.etsy.com/shop/Cutecraftycrochet

Coming soon:

Weekend Projects

This weekend, I'd like to do the following patterns.... here's hoping I get some extra crochet time:

Source: ravelry.com via Tamara on Pinterest

And 2 of these (one boyish and one girlish)

Source: etsy.com via Tamara on Pinterest

Hopefully that's not too ambitious!

Test Pattern

I just finished a test pattern for Sweet Kiwi Crochet for her new cupcake hat (will be release in the next week).

It's super cute!





Isn't it adorable?! You can buy it soon at Sweet Kiwi Crochet. While you're there, check out her other designs! I LOVE her creativity and her hat patterns. I own quite a few of them and love how easily they work up!!

We do have a similar cupcake design in our shop already:



There's numerous differences, but since we have a cupcake we won't be listing the "new" one in our shop.

Sweet Kiwi Crochet's is really cute though, and I really enjoyed working it up. I HIGHLY recommend her patterns, she writes them very clear and they are easy to follow. I love testing patterns... it forces me to do a pattern up quickly, with few distractions. :) WTG Kandice on your new design, I love it!!

Changes in pricing

After some thought recently, we decided to change our prices on hats a little bit. Some went up, some went down.. and we're also introducing some lower priced hats to keep options for you open.

We put much thought into just how long it takes to make our hats... some of our hats take 5+ hours... and we were selling them for only $22??? Does the math add up on that?

So our Frog hat, Racoon Hat and Thomas hats all take the longest amount of time to make (4-6 hours).




If we charge $22.....

We then pay $2 in fees for Etsy and Paypal (22-2= $20.00)

Then cost of supplies... say we get them on sale - $5 ($15.00)

Then there's the overage in shipping that we don't charge you, the customer -$3 ($12.00)

Then there's administrative overhead, such as business cards, domain costs, shipping supplies, hang tags, etc ... estimate that to $2/hat... could be higher, but we're being conservative there ($10.00)

Then it takes us 4-6 hours to complete... so that's about $2/hr. Would you work for $2/hr?

And this breakdown doesn't factor in the time it takes for us to photograph, edit, list, promote our items... or factor in the giveaways we do on Facebook.

We've now up'd our most time consuming hats to $28, mid-range hats are $24, and we're introducing $18 hats. Most $28 hats take us 2 evenings to make (if we're uninterrupted by children, and other commitments), mid range we can complete in an uninterrupted evening, and $18 hats we can complete 2 in an evening.

I know that $28 for a hat seems like a lot, but when you factor in our expenses, our time.... (and the fact that we are now only making slightly better than $3/hr) we don't make much. Its because we've raised some of our prices, that we are introducing the lower priced hats that we can make quicker. It gives you the buyer, options on how much you would like to spend.

If we were to raise our prices higher than $28, we know we wouldn't sell any hats, and so we do have to stay competitive in order to sell anything at all. I hope you all can appreciate how much work goes into our hats, and we are glad we have such wonderful customers.