By Joseph Paul Caparas

You can earn by selling your handmade products online. Since scarves and mufflers are essential to keep warm during colder days, you will need to learn a few tips how your customers will look and buy your products.

1. Some items are completely seasonal. If you plan on selling handmade mufflers and scarves, make your designs unique to help it stand out from the rest. Since a lot of people go online these days, you are not the only one who is selling handmade mufflers. So you need to make your range of your designs really wide if you want to earn more profit.

2. When selling handmade scarves, you will need to show specify the thickness of the material, where it is made and what is it made from. This provides your customers an idea of how thick the fabric is. Some use handmade scarves as fashion accessories rather than as an essential clothing for cold weather.

3. When selling online specify the number of days for shipping. You need to mention how long it takes for your scarves to arrive to your customers. Some handmade scarves cost more because of quality, design and material and your customers will pay a huge amount for it. As a seller, you need them to know how long they will get the product to avoid any confusion or trouble later on.

4. Specify that your creation is handmade. Since you are a seller, you will need to inform your customers that your creation is handmade. This makes them appreciate the value of your work. If your work is finely made and detailed, it will make your items more appreciated and stand out from the rest.

5. If you are selling handmade mufflers and scarves, to help increase your profit, make handmade mufflers that can be used by different age groups. You can come up with a size chart to make it easier for your customers to determine their sizes.

6. To make everything clear, if you wonder the difference between a scarf and a muffler, the answer is just plain simple: gender. Mufflers are for men and scarves are for women. Although anyone can wear a muffler or a scarf-it depends on the design sometimes and how the item is worn to pull it off.

7. Now that you are going to sell your handmade scarves and handmade mufflers, to add more appeal to your page, ask someone to model them for you. Use a good digital camera to take photo of the items and then upload them online. Then come up with a good write up about yourself and your designs to make your line of handmade products even more personal.

MadeItMyself is a rapidly growing, unique and fun artisan online marketplace that lets you post your handmade creations and share them with the rest of the world.

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By Charles Kassotis

If you are familiar with knitting and have some extra yarn laying around, why not turn it into a pair of warm socks for yourself or someone you love? Follow these steps to learn how to knit socks. This tutorial assumes that you know the following knitting techniques: how to knit, purl, cast on, and cast off. If you are not familiar with these terms, you will need to learn what they are and how to do them before attempting to knit your own socks.

Step One: Choosing Your Thread

Choose the thread you want to use to make your sock. Using a thick yarn will make a better slipper than a sock, so you want to be careful with your choice.

Step Two: Choosing Your Needles

You will need double pointed needles to work with this particular sock pattern. You will need five because the symmetrical nature of this pattern calls for four needles to hold the work as you build the sock and one needle to work with to build the sock.

Step Three: Cast On to Avoid Having to Sew the Toe of the Sock

Using two needles, wrap the thread around them in a figure eight shape. All of the loops you create here will turn into stitches of the sock later. If you are making a small sock, use eight loops, but for larger socks, use 10 loops.

Step Four: Adding a Third Needle

You will need to use a third needle to knit all of the loops on the first one. After you have knitted all the loops on the first needle, take it and knit all of the loops on the second needle. The end result of this step should show all of your stitches on the first and third needles. Don’t worry about the stitches being loose because they will be tightened later in the process.

Step Five: Building More of the Sock

With the third, or floating needle, follow the knit one, make one pattern until you have reached the halfway point over the needle. Now, you will want to add a marker to indicate the back center point of the sock.

Step Six: Adding a Fourth Needle

Add another needle into the mix and continue the knit one, make one pattern until there is one left, knitting the last stitch.

Step Seven: Continuing the Pattern to Build the Sock

Repeat these steps with a second casting on needle. If you are knitting a large sock, count on having six stitches on each one. If you are knitting a small sock, count on having five stitches on each one. Continue this knitting pattern until you have built the entire length of your sock. You should continue knitting until the sock is about two inches away from the back of the heel. Make sure to have foot measurements if you are making the sock for someone else.

Step Eight: Build the Heel of the Sock

Knit short rows, using only two needles. Using the knit and purl techniques, knit back and forth tightly to keep from building large holes in the sock.

Step Nine: Returning the Needles Back to Normal to Finish the Sock

Go back to your five needle stance to finish building the remainder of the sock, the area that goes around the ankle and up the leg.

Step Ten: Cast Off

When you have finished building the sock and done your ribbing of knit two, purl two, you will want to cast off loosely to ensure the sock is easy to put on and take off. If not, it can result in an uncomfortable sock.

Handmade socks make a great stocking stuffers, especially soft, fluffy warm ones! Learn how to knit socks at: http://howtoknitsocks.org/.

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