It is hard to decide what inventory to offer and what your customers will buy, especially at markets. Since you typically don’t take orders at a market, you need to have actual items available for purchase, which makes planning essential for knitting manufacturers and sellers. In this article we’ll go through the best selling knitted items.
First, stock up
Whether you have an online business or you sell at markets, you’ll need to have something ready as soon as you make a sale.If you’re knitting as the sales come in, it’s not sustainable.
Most knit and crochet goods are bought in the cold weather months, meaning if you didn’t spend spring and summer stocking up for the fall you missed out on tons of potential sales.
You can only knit as fast as you can knit. Get your materials on sale, choose quick projects, and you’ll see the benefits in your first season selling.
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Types of Knit Items that Sell Best
There’s a reason you see a lot of the same things sold at craft fairs and online. They’ve done their market research to find out what sells, and they’ve narrowed it down to quick knits that can be easily replicated. One important thing to remember is that just because you’re selling knitwear doesn’t mean you have to design your own patterns.
Here is the list of knitted items you’ll definitely sell:
Hats
Hats is the obvious first category. Hats knit with bulky or super bulky weight yarn and a US size 10 or bigger needle take one ball of yarn and an hour or two to make. There are a ton of knit hat patterns out there that designers let you resell finished products from.
Headbands
Just like hats, headbands are quick and easy to replicate over and over again. Once you have your basic template for each size you plan on selling, you can design anything. You won’t even need to spend money on patterns, you can design your own and make it over and over again.
Scarves
Chunky knit scarves take just a couple of skeins. You can even knit them up, but wait to add pom poms or tassels until those orders come in. That way you don’t have four tassel scarves already knit, but are finding that pom poms are really in that season.
Boot cuffs
The cool thing is that boot cuffs only take about two hours to knit a pair. Similar to scarves, you can wait to add any embellishments for when those sales come in.
Home decor
Home decor pieces are easy to make because there are no size differences, which make them easy to stock.
Pillows and knit pillow covers: you knit for a 16″ x 16″ pillow insert, or whatever size you choose, and you can have a ton on hand.
Baskets and planters: There’s a whole world of adorable home knitting projects to sell if you can knit in the round.
Dish cloth: is literally knitting a tiny square. You don’t have to stock a ton of sizes like knitting garment sellers. Choose a style or two in a cohesive color palette.Then, package them up together, and you have an adorable dish cloth set.
Accessories & Small Items
This is a category you do not want to skip because these are going to be your best sellers. People most likely pick the cheapest thing on the table so they can have something they like but not break their budget. It’s a great idea to have some items like keychains, scrunchies, dishcloths, etc. that are quick for you to make and affordable for this type of customer.
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