I’ve been thinking a lot lately about crafting for fun and profit. And I think you need to be careful how you mix the two.
I want to make some crafts that can supplement my income. Don’t worry, I’m not going to go quite my dayjob or anything, but I just wanted something a little extra.
Thinking about that, the crafts I’ve done before, and thinking about the business mum had, I think that if you’re going to craft for profit, you need to enjoy what you do, but sometimes it’s a good idea if it isn’t your main craft. Now, ‘main’ may not mean the one you do the most (because if you have a business, you’re probably doing that a lot) it means the one you always go back to, your love.

I think I see myself making jewelry. Now, I really like doing fiddly tiny stuff, so that’s fine. I would never knit for profit. I tried that, with my uni craft fairs. I knit as a hobby, as a passtime, as something to relax. I don’t want to have to stress about deadlines. But say I started making jewelry, I could be doing that one Saturday, get frustrated or tired of it, and then I could go relax and knit. If something I was knitting for a show was frustrating me, I wouldn’t have another craft to turn to.

Knitting for me is relaxation.

Right now I need to find my perfect business craft.