For indie yarn dyers

Every dye lot, on the ledger.

You buy undyed bases by the bag, dyes by the gram, and sell by colorway — where every kettle day mints a new dye lot and every shop update sells out (or doesn't) in its own way. MadeKeeper tracks base × colorway × lot without the spreadsheet gymnastics, and prices your skeins from what they actually cost to dye.

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.

How MadeKeeper maps to your dye kitchen

Bases as raw material, colorways as productLog undyed merino, sock, and DK bases at cost. A dye day converts base skeins into a colorway with its own lot number — the same skein, now worth what you made it.
Dyes weighed in gramsAcid dyes, citric, and soak costs are pennies per skein that add up across a 20-skein kettle. MadeKeeper spreads them across the lot so each skein carries its true cost.
Shop updates and dropsA drop that sells 40 skeens in an hour and a festival booth that moves 15 all weekend are different businesses. Log both and the event math tells you where your dye days pay best.
Wholesale and club skeins tooFaire orders, LYS wholesale, and sock-club subscriptions each get their own channel — so a wholesale lot at half retail doesn't quietly poison your margin numbers.

One dye day, to the penny

Say you dye a 20-skein lot of a new colorway:

  • 20 undyed merino bases @ $6.80$136.00
  • 38 g of acid dye @ 11¢/g$4.18
  • Citric acid and soak$1.20
Lot cost — $7.07 per skein$141.38

At $26 a skein in the shop update, each one clears $18.93 before fees — and when a colorway flops, you know exactly what the lesson cost.

MadeKeeper keeps the fiber-content and lot records that yarn labeling asks about — in the app instead of a binder.

Straight about what's live

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 →

Questions indie yarn dyers ask

Can MadeKeeper keep dye lots separate?

Yes — that's the point. Each dye day creates a lot with its own count and cost, so when a customer needs a second skein from the same bath, you know if one exists and which bin it's in.

How do I cost speckles and multi-dye colorways?

Log the dyes used on the lot in grams, at whatever mix the colorway took. The total spreads across the skeins in that lot, so a dye-heavy speckle costs more than a gentle tonal — as it should.

Does it handle festival prep?

Load-out and count-back: log what you brought, count what came home, and the difference is your sales. The event report subtracts the booth fee, the miles, and the weekend to a plain was-it-worth-it verdict.

Ready to see your real numbers?

The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.

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