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#16 - Monique Boonstra @ Kantwerk on how she gets paid the right price for her knitted lace designs

Saskia de Feijter Season 1 Episode 16

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In this episode, I welcome Monique Boonstra, a very talented lace knitter and designer and general lovely person. She explains that her skills are part talent and part hard work and many hours of practice. She shares her practice with us and offers over an hour of insights and inspiration to knitters and (starting) business owners in the knitting industry.

If you have questions about how to calculate prices for your knitting and where to find customers that will pay the right price, Monique Boonstra gives us a masterclass in how she calculates the prices for her very intricate lace knitted shawls. Spoiler; she doesn't have an hourly rate but figured out a way to get a fair price and still she gets customers that order multiple (!!) shawls from her.

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