Blankets are the heavy freight of crochet — nine or ten skeins each, hours in the double digits, and a market table where a $150 price tag gets the raised eyebrow. The yarn bill is real, the hours are enormous, and both belong in the price. MadeKeeper tracks the skeins and puts the hours on the tag's side of the argument.
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Say you finish a chunky chenille throw:
At $150 you keep $91.04 before fees — $6.50 an hour for the fourteen hours of crochet. Now you know exactly what the $185 price defends, and what a $95 'deal' actually gives away.
If your blankets are headed for cribs and small children, MadeKeeper keeps the yarn and batch records that CPSIA paperwork asks about — in the app instead of a binder.
Materials and true cost per piece, products (in bulk or one-of-a-kind), sales that drain stock, the was-this-fair-worth-it event math, mileage, expenses, and the year-end tax packet — all in the app today. Etsy and Square sync, your own storefront, a booth card reader, and shipping labels are building, shaped with founding makers. Nothing above describes a feature that doesn't exist without saying so. See the full live-vs-building list →
Each size runs its own recipe and its own history. Most blanket makers find the baby size sells three times as often at a friendlier price — and per hour, it usually beats the queen. Your ledger will say which end of the table to feed.
Every purchase logs at what you actually paid, so the blanket made from the 40%-off haul shows its true, better margin — and the one made at full price doesn't hide behind it.
A half-done blanket is work in progress — materials committed, hours accruing, visible on the books. The temperature blanket that eats a year stops being a mystery expense.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.