How much do I crochet?

How much do I crochet vs how much time do I crochet?  Honestly, I'm really horrible at tracking my time and that includes the time I've spent making little plushies. I am fairly good at tracking what I'm accomplishing each day, so with the next steps I could calculate how much time I spend in a given day or week fairly easily.  

I was given advice by a fellow crochet entrepreneur, Camryns Cute Creations, to track the time it takes me to make an item and use that with a pricing strategy. She created a great "pricing calculator tool" that is available at a minimal costI'm not the fastest crochetor and I have tracked a few of my items - the snake for example is 40" long takes me about 2 hours to complete. I'll plan out a week of my crocheting and plan on crocheting a few smaller amigurumi items or take a couple days to complete a larger item.

Special shout out to Camryn for her pricing calculator! - check it out here. 

What I do love to know is what I've made in a week or a month and how many of them I've made. I have a cute little calendar that I track both work and personal tasks and using a few bullet journal techniques such as checkmarks, arrows for moving, Xs for oops didn't do; its fairly easy to manage. Each sunday I plan out what I would "like" to make and pencil them in on each day of the following week.  I then get to check them off - move them to a different day or just X them and perhaps choose them for the next week. If I make multiples on a given day I'll mark them with a number of how many I've made.

My holiday weekly planner (from Dec 18 to Dec 31st) was truly inspiring - I made 18 mini octos, 3 axolotls, 2 yoda bombs, a gator, 2 big pickles, 2 medium pickles, 5 chickens, a frog lovey, finished my trash panda, and started a dragon from Crochet Magical Creatures book. 

First week of 2024 I added a dinosaur lovey an elephant lovey, finished a penguin, 4 yoda bombs and a pink triceratops (following Nicole Chases Mini Tanner Triceratops pattern).

Looking back I find I crochet about 18 items a week; last week was slower since I was getting back to the 9 to 5 work shift and cleaningup/decluttering after the holidays, but still happily completed 9 decent sized items. If your curious this week is unicorn and sheep loveys, pocket triceratops, baby and medium possums....perhaps some fidget worms. Check out my patterns page for links to some of my favorite designers.  

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