What goes into a crochet price
A crocheted item has three real costs: the yarn, your hours, and getting it to the buyer. The yarn is the obvious one — a blanket can take ten or more skeins — but the hours are usually the largest cost, and the one sellers most often leave out. A blanket that takes 12 hours at $12 an hour is $144 of labour before a single skein of yarn. Add the hook and notions, packaging, and the shipping you actually pay, and you have the true cost of one item.
Typical starting points (adjust to your actual yarn and speed — these are starting points, not market facts): yarn $8–$25 per item depending on size and fibre; labour is usually the biggest line, so time yourself rather than guessing; packaging $1–$3; shipping $5–$10. A small amigurumi and a king-size blanket live in completely different price worlds, which is why a flat "3× materials" rule misprices both.
Three pricing tips for crochet sellers
- Time one repeat, then multiply. Time yourself on one row or one motif, then multiply by the number in the piece. It is far more accurate than guessing total hours after the fact.
- Charge for the yarn you used, not the skein you bought. Weigh the leftover yarn and subtract it. A $12 skein of which you used half is $6 of materials, not $12.
- Do not compete with mass-produced crochet prices. Your buyer is paying for handmade. Price the hours honestly, let the calculator show the margin, and if the number looks high, that is the market telling you the item takes too long to sell at a profit — not a reason to work for free.
Price your crochet item
Load the calculator with crochet starting values — yarn, hours, packaging and shipping — then adjust them to your piece.
Open the calculator with the crochet preset →Fee rates checked 2026-11-12 against Etsy's Fees & Payments Policy. This tool is independent and not affiliated with Etsy, Inc. All figures are estimates.