A sweater is the biggest bet in knitting — six skeins bought at once so the dye lots match, weeks on the needles, and a finished garment the market wants to price like fast fashion. Nobody hand-knits sweaters for the margin; the ones who sell them anyway need the true number in hand before they quote. MadeKeeper gives you that number.
The app is live. Free during the pilot. Founding rate $19/mo, locked for life.
No card to start. Use it free through the pilot, and lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.
Say you knit a commissioned worsted pullover:
At $340, the forty-two hours of knitting paid $6.34 an hour. That's not a reason to quit — it's the reason your next quote is $450, and the waitlist is the proof the market will follow.
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 →
Log the six skeins as one purchase committed to the project. The stash count shows them spoken for, so a hat emergency doesn't quietly break up a matched dye lot.
Swatch yarn is part of the sweater — log the full skeins against the project and the leftovers return to stash when it's done. The books stay honest either way the math falls.
Run three through MadeKeeper and decide from your own profit-per-hour, not from a forum argument. Many knitters keep sweaters commission-only at waitlist prices and sell hats for volume — your ledger will tell you if that's your answer too.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.