About Our Prices

The Luxury of Handmade Items

Our prices may seem high, and that is mainly due to the high cost of wool. High quality materials just cost more. We consciously select high quality, natural fibers, and only use a small percentage of synthetics in blends where stretchiness is called for in a specific pattern.

Also we spend a lot of time and care crafting each item by hand. Handmade items are truly luxury items in today’s machine-made, mass produced, fast fashion world. The true cost of labor of handknit pieces is rarely reflected in the actual prices anywhere you shop. Here at Scottie Knits, we — on occasion — don’t even charge for the labor to make an item; but generally, it’s at an *extremely* reduced rate. That’s because we want to offer products at a price point that doesn’t exclude anyone from buying something even small. We’ve all had those days where enveloping ourselves in something that was handmade with loving care can make a real difference to our state of mind. This is the alchemy we are aiming for!

Other factors at play… Tariffs are now pushing the cost of wool even higher, so it’s probable that our prices may have to increase in the near future to keep pace.

But, sometimes, items are priced on the high side because we are just so chuffed with how something turned out (like the handwoven wall hangings made on a loom) that we aren’t quite ready to part with them yet. Ha! (Yes, detachment is a work in progress…)

We hope you can find something in our shop that meets the sweet point of being in your budget and meeting your heart’s content.

Woof! 🐾 🧶