Hand knit kilt hose... What would you pay?

[Arlen]

Just trying to get some ideas from you lot if you don't mind.

My fiance is an avid knitter. She's made me a few pairs of nice kilt hose in the past, both argyl and cable, and has recently started knitting to order.
(She done this nice cable hat, mittens/gloves and scarf set for a friend.)



Now, she does a lot of really nice knitting and wants to start doing kilt hose and Arran sweaters to order both online and for her local Scottish store in Boise.
We're both wondering, what would be a reasonable price?

She's thinking of charging about $10 an hour, which for average size feet and regular, nice kilt hose would be about $35-40.
She also wants to do custom stuff. Argyl, cable, intartia (Sp?) and the like.

So I'm wondering, what would most of you think was a reasonable price both for standard hand knit kilt hose and for custom hose?


Thanks for helping out.

[McClef]

That would be extremely good value when you look at how much hand knitted hose costs on commercial websites.

[Freelander Sporrano]

For a pair of Handknitted Hose That is far too cheap IMHO

[Arlen]

That would be extremely good value when you look at how much hand knitted hose costs on commercial websites.

*Smiles*
That's good. She really doesn't want to charge a lot because part of why she's doing it is to make it more acessable. So more people can have quality goods.
Thanks.

[Arlen]

For a pair of Handknitted Hose That is far too cheap IMHO

Thanks. I'll let her know.
Mainly she wants to make quality stuff affordable to more people, but perhaps she can do some sort of tiered pricing for the really high quality stuff.

[Freelander Sporrano]

Look here at these prices
http://www.scotclans.com/shopping/kilt_accs_shoe.html
Quality costs money in most cases
Handknitted Tartan hose can run at around 300 quid

[Big Mikey]

I think $35 -$40 dollars for standard is very good. Maybe $60-$70 for custom?

[O'Neille]

I'd like to see an example of the hose themselves and know what yarns they are knitted from. The cost of materials could add considerably to that figure. I do like the color of that set you show there. I would like to have a pair of hose knit in that color. O'Neille

[Arlen]

I'd like to see an example of the hose themselves and know what yarns they are knitted from. The cost of materials could add considerably to that figure. I do like the color of that set you show there. I would like to have a pair of hose knit in that color. O'Neille

What she did with these, as with most things, was direct the person to a yarn site, tell them to pick a yarn they liked and buy as much as they'd need and have it shipped to her. (For that set it was 6 balls of cashmere/merino at like $6 a ball as the scarf was 6 feet long)
Then she just tries to charge reasonably for her time.

She really just likes to knit and isn't too terribly concerned with huge profits.
I'm getting a lot of good info here, so maybe she'll charge more.

[Arlen]

I think $35 -$40 dollars for standard is very good. Maybe $60-$70 for custom?

That's great, thank you.
It's mostly pointing to that she can charge more if she wants to, but she's not really likely to.