Add a project
A project is one make, or a batch of identical makes. The point of filling it in properly is the number at the bottom: what this actually cost you, and what you should charge for it.
Start a new project
From your studio, choose + New Project. If you've made something similar before, open that project and use ⧉ Clone instead — it copies the materials, pattern and pricing so you only adjust what changed.
Fill in Pattern & Project
Item name is the only required field. Designer / Author, Pattern title and Hook / needle size are worth adding — the designer credit shows on your public look book, which is good manners and good marketing.
Status starts as Planned or In Progress; a make only appears on your look book once it's Completed, Sold or Gifted.Choose how you are counting materials
In Materials, pick Everything I bought (whole batch) or What one item uses (per item). This is the setting people most often get wrong: if you bought ten balls to make six bears, that's whole batch. If you're listing what a single bear consumes, that's per item. The cost per item depends entirely on which you picked.
Add your yarns
+ Add yarn for each one: brand, colourway, ply/weight, quantity and unit cost. If a yarn was on sale, put the normal price in Unit Cost and the discounted one in Sale $ — the suggested retail price is based on the full price, because the next one you make probably won't be on sale.
Used it before? 🧶 From my stash fills a row in from a previous project, price and all.Add everything that is not yarn
Under Other Materials: safety eyes, stuffing, wire, ribbon, tags, the zip. These are the costs makers forget, and they're usually the difference between a healthy margin and working for nothing.
Record your hours
Put the hours in, and set an hourly rate in ⚙ Settings. Craft Studio then shows what you actually earned per hour on each sale. Seeing "$6.78 an hour" on a piece you loved is usually the moment pricing changes.
Add photos
A Final project photo is what shoppers see first. Progress photos are optional and are only for you.
Photos are resized and converted automatically, so a 4 MB phone photo costs you a fraction of your storage.Set quantity and price
How many made? and How many sold? turn one project into a batch and track your stock. Asking price is per item. Tick to show the price publicly if you want it on the look book — it's hidden unless you say so.
Add a Store link (Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, your own shop) and a Buy button appears on that make. Craft Studio never takes a cut.Save
Create Project. Your costs, materials, hours and notes stay private — only the photos, name, designer credit, tags and optional price are ever public.
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