I think it depends on the yarn too, my shawl I blocked back in July and though there is some rolling at the neck, it looks remarkably well, like I just pulled the pins out and picked it up.
It’s not folded up either. It’s been my go-to for a scarf this winter since I can wrap it around me if I get chilly at work. So it’s been wrapped around my neck, shoved under my jacket, bundled up and tossed on my desk, in my desk, on the car seat beside me…
My next shawl will be Torreyana in the largest size. Starts with using Judy’s Magic Cast-on for 463 stitches over two needles so you don’t have to pick up stitches from a provisional cast-on later.
I’m still daydreaming about the perfect sky blue lace yarn to add to my assortment of mostly pink laceweights so that when done it will look like a sunrise on a slightly cloudy day . . .
But I’m not excited about the casting-on process. Especially given how often I find myself recasting projects on after discovering that I misread something (or misremembered something–like which rows are right side and which ones are wrong side) somewhere before row 3.
On the plus side, I’ll get to knit (or purl) the soulkillingly endless rows sooner.
The garter border keeps curling under the stockingnette section. Apparently other knitters also have this problem and have suggested going up a needle size?
I posted pictures of this on my Facebook page, and I’ve got two people saying they want me to make them one – and will pay. What should I charge? I think it took me about 10 hours to do (I knit while I’m watching TV, and I’m trying to remember how many episodes of my current BBC series I watched 
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I’m thinking $25, which would be $5 for yarn and $20 for labor … enough that I wouldn’t feel totally exploited [though obviously well below minimum wage], but not so pricey that people aren’t willing to pay.
Has anyone done knitting to order like this? What do you charge?
Never knit to order like that, did once do a needlepoint piece for a friend–she had the canvas (and didn’t even know it was needlepoint) I bought the supplies, and when she offered to pay me, I told her I’d spent twenty dollars on supplies, which she was welcome to pay me for, but she couldn’t pay me for the time, she gave me fifty (I can’t recall now whether that was total or in addition to the twenty), and I took it.
I think 25 is reasonable for the hat you describe–it’s not a fair wage for your labor, but you can’t charge a fair wage and expect to get it. So if you’d enjoy knitting another hat, and getting a few dollars for it, go for it.
No, I definitely wouldn’t tackle a big project on order like that – I’d start getting resentful way before the end of things – but this took maybe a week and a half and was fun.
I would start with $25 like you’re thinking, and see how it feels. After doing two “for hire” the shine may be off and you’ll want to charge more. 
To me, it’s a hair low, I would say $30, but its such a small difference.
I’m surprised you can make that hat with $5 worth of yarn. It’s very attractive. Can I have one?
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(JOKING!!! as a crocheter the one thing I have plenty of is hats!!! But not joking about the attractive part)
I decided to say $30, to cover yarn and postage, which should be under $5 each, and both people bit. As you say, I can see how I feel about it after doing those two – that may be enough for me.
My latest completed project - stuffed taxicab. It’s for my nephew.
There’s a minor error in the “checkerboard”… see if you can spot it 
Forgot to come back to this thread for a while… Very nice hat, twicks; I can see why your friends wanted one too.
Love all the shawls, too, although I think I’m still too impatient to knit a very complex one. I’ve knit Citron in a sockweight yarn (I don’t have pictures of my own; really need to upload some) and improvised a plain rectangular one, but don’t think I can make myself knit something really large in lace weight yarn. Yet.
As for the Saroyan scarf, I’ve knit two of them and find that they both curl a bit. I’ve decided to treat it as a feature. 
The one I knit in sock weight yarn curls much less than the worsted weight one, so yarn weight may indeed play a role.
Am currently knitting handwarmers with the Saroyan pattern edge at the cuff (I probably mentioned these above); I’m on my 3rd attempt because my increases were too holey. I just tested a different way to make a stitch (it’s twistier than what I was doing) and it looks like that might solve my problem. We’ll see…
Happy knitting, all…
Yah - it’s never worthwhile. I knit a sock monkey for my son for X-mas and it took FOREVER!
The minute people see it they want them for their own kids with no notion of the time involved at all, let alone the cost of supplies.
One of my friends who makes her living as an artist had the nerve to be annoyed when I told her I would trade her knit wear for art. I mean, come on - her time and skill is valuable, but mine I should give away. :rolleyes:
I’m crocheting a blanket for my son, and after that…I really don’t know.
I have some Lion WoolEase that I meant to make into a scarf…I’ve started it three different times. It all started out with my mother in law giving me a ball of the stuff. She’d tried something with it, and it hadn’t worked out. There wasn’t enough there to make anything useful, so I went and got a ball of another colour that would work with it. Months (or was it years?) pass and finally I pull it out. I start in on the ball given to me, only to realize that it’s dozens and dozens of foot-long pieces, which she has carefully wound back into a ball. Sigh. I have absolutely NO idea what she had tried to do with it…but I kind of wish she had mentioned “oh yeah - I took the scissors to this…several times”
I have a gorgeous pattern for a shawl that I want to make for myself, but that will mean visiting Gina Brown’s, and I’m reluctant to do that because they are always so rude on the phone. I think they are the only place in town to get Sirdar. I know you can order it online, but I like to see things first
The gals at The Knitting Room are lovely and they have Sirdar.
OOH! Alice, where is The Knitting Room?
Hello Again, that taxi made me laugh - it’s adorable!
I’m close to the end of my HeelHead Scarf - finished one tail, increases, the hood part, and almost at the end of the decreases on the other side. I want to try the Willoughby scarf - it looks so pretty! but it looks like it’s going to take some extreme patience. I also want to try knitting a teddy bear soon.
Totally missed your post, Hello Again. Love the taxi.
Crowchild Square - it’s just off of 53rd Street NW by where the Crowchild Motor Inn used to be - by Varsity Estates.
What is it about us crafters that makes us want to point out minor errors in our projects we are otherwise pleased with–and that the viewers don’t neccessarily look closely enough to catch? like the cables here.
i’m very happy i finished the four pillows i made for friends this christmas. they look great!
i’m so happy with them i’m gonna try to make pillows for the family next christmas.
Seriously! Each time I find an error that’s too far down to fix but isn’t horrific, I’ll agonize over it and then say, “well, no one will really notice it on their own”… And then have to fight the irrisistible urge to point the error out myself!
I’m excited because I’ve finally finished up some projects. This was my first semester of grad school and I had NO time for knitting for at least two months. On this break I’ve gone on a knitting binge!
Finished:
Thermal sweater (from Knitty). This is for me and is a fingering weight sweater. If that doesn’t sound time-consuming enough, I knit the entire body (in the round) up till the shoulders… And realized it was too big. 
I had to frog the entire thing and start over. In fingering weight. I also converted it to be worked flat and seamed because I got better gauge that way (75% knit 25% purl instead of the 50/50 split when in the round. And of course NOW I’ve learned how to purl tighter. Arr!).
Cerus scarf (also from Knitty, I think). I highly recommend this pattern! Linen stitch is addictive. I made it for my husband, who asked if I could make him a scarf that was still warm while being less bulky*. I used Berrocco Ultra Alpaca Light in a light heathered grey. The right side of linen stitch looks woven and the wrong side looks like seed stitch. It’s fabulous! I want to make one for me with some obnoxious hand-painted yarn. Since Cerus is worked lengthwise and it has slipped stitches every row, hand paints that would normally be overwhelming are tamed.
fingerless mitts for a friend in Araucania Panguipuli. I got a leftovers ball from my LYS. They had used just under half a skein, so I got a bit more than half for $5. A skein retails for $18! It’s a super neat three ply where one ply is black and the other two do slow color transitions (in my color it was tans, rusty orange and purple. Definitely not my usual colors so it was fun to step out of that comfort zone).