Many here know that my wife is an avid knitter and one of the pet peeves of the knitting community is the hobby knitter who occassionally sells a piece at a ridiculously low cost. They are not relying on sales of their hand knits as a source of income, they enjoy it as a hobby, and so they just charge enough to cover the cost of the yarns and are happy.

The problem with this is that there are hand knitters who rely on their sales for their income, and those knitters who undervalue their own work actually end up hurting those who have to charge a fair price, because people think that hand knits ought to be cheaper.

My wife has had to deal with people who didn't even want to pay her enough to cover the cost of the yarn used in a project!

Oddly enough I have not had a single person ever question the amount of money I charge for making kilts, yet some of the projects I have seen my wife knit have taken her so much more time and effort, and she's only charging a fraction of what I do. And she's the one that gets people complaining about the cost.