Great Ways To Make Money Knitting

If you desire to make money knitting, you really do need to find a knitting niche ie create knitted products that stand out. No matter what Knitting money making strategy you choose to follow, in order to really make a good profit from your knitting, you should be a bit different, and stand out from your knitting competition and the general knitting crowd.

Ideally, you want to fulfill a need in the marketplace and provide a specific knitted product that a market of potential buyers may have and want -preferably desperately! Really, the trick to being able to make money knitting is to find this desperate market of buyers for your knitted products or services.

As an example of what I mean take a look at these two different niche knitting markets you could provide:

Knitted Wedding gifts – This is an ideal market to make money knitting especially when you first start out. You could knit a range of knitted pieces that would make a thoughtful and appreciated gift for a couple starting their married life. For example, 'His' and 'Hers' or initials or their names knitted into jumpers, scarves, pillows, hats, or blankets. Or his and hers versions of the same knitted item, such as beanies knitted in matching or complimentary colors. Maybe you could provide useful knitted household items like potholders or wash-clothes in white or silver. Use wedding bell or heart motifs.

Once you specialise like this, it makes it easier to find ways to sell your knitted products too. You could contact local wedding or bridal shops, go to bridal shows, find companies that specialise in wedding gifts or kitchen tea parties (there are lots online) and list your knitted products with them, or see if local gift shops would like to stock your knitted pieces in their shop. You can also sell your specialty knitted range through one of the many online craft malls. It's quite amazing how quickly word spreads when you have something unique to offer your knitting market!

Knitted Christmas Ornaments and Stockings – This is another ideal market to make money knitting. There are knitters who have fantastic success and more back-orders than they can handle for knitted or crocheted products related to the Christmas theme, especially Christmas ornaments and stockings. You could sell either the finished knitted items, or you could even look at selling the Christmas knitting patterns. It's obviously very seasonal but it's a wonderful time of the year to be selling your knitting! The internet is the ideal place to look for Christmas knitting pattern ideas – just look up “Christmas knitting patterns” in your search engine.

So there you are, some great niche knitting for profit ideas that will help you make money knitting.