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.

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By Marjory Richmond

Learning new knitted hat patterns is one of the best ways you can grow as a knitter. Making a flat hat is the simplest hat project that will give you the feel of knitting hats and it’s also a fast way for established knitters to finish a project on the double. With this unique hat, all you need to do is knit using a garter stitch square knit up on the sides and gathered in an original manner at the sides, and viola! You have a nice, useful head-warmer.

You’ll need:

1. 1 skein or 34 yards of yarn

2. Scissors

3. 1 pair of size 19 US needles

4. A small quantity of smooth wool yarn in a nice color that will blend with your base yarn

5. Yarn needle

Gauge:

Two rows per inch and one and a half stitches in garter stitch.

Size:

Prior to sewing, the piece is approximately 15 inches long and 10 inches wide. A finished piece is roughly 15 inches around and 9 inches tall. It will fit any average sized person.

Let’s start!

1. Begin by casting on 15 stitches.

2. Knit every row until your project measures 15 inches.

3. Bind off, then cut the yarn.

4. With the smooth yarn, sew the bound off edge to the cast on edge.

5. Thread the smooth yarn through the stitches on one of the sides of the tube you just made. To make sure that there is no extra hole, pull tightly. To make sure that it’s extra tight, thread the yarn back through the stitches. Cut and weave in ends.

Marjory Richmond is a knitting expert. She spends her time consulting on knotty knitting problems and teaching others how to become proficient at knitting with remarkable speed. To learn more about knitted hat patterns and her finishing techniques for flawless products Click here.

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