Thoughts?

[bladespark]

I'm going to be selling plush, tails, ears, etc. at a local Saturday market. I figure mostly I'll bring Loonakits, but Loonakits run $20 a pop, give or take a bit. I suspect they will sell, but there's going to be a lot of people who have <$5 on them and would buy something if I just had something cheaper.

But honestly... what on earth can I make from fabric that would be worth selling at that price? I'm completely drawing a blank. Loonakits are about as simple as it gets. Any ideas out there?

Comments

[beetlecat.livejournal.com]

I've tried figuring this out too and it basically came down to a fuzzy ball with eyes. So yeah a loonakit. There is just nothing that can be churned out for $5. Even simple cat tail keychains take more time than that.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Braided dog tugs, (3 braided strips, 3' for $5 and 5' or with a looped handle for $10 is what they go for at the agility shows here) please! The faux fur ones are the BEST and when I find them in things otehr than solid colors, I buy LOTS. :)

[majy-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Actually hand made dog toys can be dangerous for dogs especially ones made out of fur. They can swallow the fur or ingest the fibers and get very sick or even choke on it.

Every time i hear fur and dog toys in the same post i think of the "Jesskitt incident"

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what you think the store-bought ones are made out of, then. Tugs aren't a chew toy, in any event.

[majy-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Those are very sturdy but then again i can't quite remember how those other ones were put together. I think they might have just been glued or horridly put together. They were advertised as chews made out of scraps but they were so poorly made. I don't know if they were braided or what but then again braiding would probably work if they weren't sticking out all over the place.


Actually im going to go see if i can find the other post.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

The ones that I've always used (and bought) are 3 single long strips of fabric- there's no stitching, they're held together entirely by braiding. Many, many, many agility and flyball people use these, and they're identical to versions sold at Petsmart except those are typically made of polarfleece instead of faux fur and made in Asian sweatshops.

[majy-the-dragon.livejournal.com]

Hmm something tells me that the ones i saw were sewn. Any way i think i've seen quite a few versions of those if i'm correct. I know we used to have the rope style ones that were braided for our dogs.

Sorry if im failing right now. I'm just really bad at remembering things that happened quite a while back.

[thrivis.livejournal.com]

My friend twinkle stah makes some cute little whimsical things out of felt that sell for like 5 and 10.

http://twinklestah.livejournal.com/

Maybe if you found some sort of thing to do with scraps that was more crafty than sewy?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmmmmm. That has some possabilities.

[derakon.livejournal.com]

Bookmarks, maybe?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I think fur bookmarks wouldn't mark books very well. XD Although I suppose I could do felt ones.

[viva-la-topknot.livejournal.com]

At my local market there's a girl who sells "book worms". They're strips of fur with goggly eyes, glued to a piece of card paper. The kids who buy them write the titles of the books they read on the paper, and when they read 50 books they can come back and get a discount on her other wares. She sells them for a buck a pop and they seem to sell really, really well.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

That's a really good idea. :) Although I've found something I like that works as well.

[viva-la-topknot.livejournal.com]

Art I meant FIVE books, not fifty. They're meant for little kids.

[bloodbeauty.livejournal.com]

miniature loonakit keyrings

[coyoty.livejournal.com]

Hand puppets. Pillows. Quilt squares. Fabric collage pictures. Mini plushie "rugs" (like beanies without the beans). Puppet-like potholders. Masks. Wristbands.