Last August 5, I received another batch of orders from a regular customer. That was her 3rd time ordering from me, which consists of 3 pieces of jump shorts, 2 of them with sleeves, and the other was just a halter type.
I was confident during that time that I could finish them within a month by calculating my speed and the trial and error phase since I hadn't tried this kind of design before. But I was sure that I could figure it out. What I loved about this customer was that whenever she orders a made-to-order crochet outfit, she immediately settles her downpayment (50% of the total amount) through Gcash. But the downside about her was that she ALWAYS asked for a discount, way too high, like less than 20-25%. Actually, there were 3-4 designs, as I remember that she asked me if I could lower the prices but couldn't accept it since it was way lower than my usual fee. So the next time, she again showed some designs, and finally, this one, which I agreed with only because I was short on my budget.
By the way, she also knows how to crochet, and she was selling those crochet items apart from wearing them by herself and posting them to her Fb Page to model the designs. She was a Filipina, residing in Dubai. And she orders crochet wearables not only from me but from other Pinay crocheters too. And that may be the reason why she asked for discounts since she had to pay the shipping fee in bulk to Dubai. I just shipped out her last order to her hometown here in the Philippines through my Shopee store.
After she had paid, I checked my yarn stash and was glad that I still had the red and neon pink yarn color from her last order. Her 3rd choice of color was mint green which I don't have so I ordered online.
Then, I started making the red jump short with no sleeves and just a halter type. I began on the upper top forming a triangular shape for each side going down the shorts.
I was working on this one when the classes started. During the 1st week of classes, I hardly had time to crochet. I have to wake up early in the morning, prepare their breakfast, their snacks for recess and prepare their uniforms and their things. After they'd gone to school, that was my time for cleaning the house and feeding all the birds, chickens, and ducks. And before lunchtime, I have to prepare their food and went to school to send their lunch. After they had eaten, I have to go back home to continue some house chores leaving me an hour or two to crochet if I won't doing laundry.
IMG20220927104044_01.jpgMoving forward, I finally finished the red jump short after 3 weeks! The longest time for this MTO to finish. Good thing my customer understand my situation when I explained everything to her and when I send her this picture, she liked it very much.
IMG20220825123723_01.jpgNow moving to the neon pink, I was confidently doing it, as I already have ideas on how to do it after making the red one. When I take this picture, I noticed that there is something wrong.
Can you spot the error here?
As I was staring at my work, I felt sad knowing I have to do it again. I can't send this knowing that she will eventually notice the difference. Yes, it's the color of the yarn I used. 😔 As you can notice, the left area is a bit lighter compared to the right side and the short area.
How it happened?
Well, I was confident that I'm using the same color of yarn knowing I ordered the same color before from the same seller. So I really expected everything was the same. I informed my customer about it and she's a bit discouraged knowing I would take longer than expected.
Solution
I have no choice but to start all over again. By the way, this neon pink yarn is a 12-ply polyester but she wanted me to use only 8ply since she doesn't want it to be heavy. Since we can't find an 8ply neon pink polyester online, I just volunteered before to separate the other 4ply from the 12ply polyester. That was easy before because my partner used to segregate the other 4ply as I crochet. But now that he was working whole day up to 9pm in the evening, that means I have to do it on my own and that makes me pause for a while, separate the 4ply, then crochet. This takes me more time to finish.
So after a month of segregating and crocheting, I was able to finish this neon pink! Whew! 2 down, and 1 more to go. And good luck with another segregating since that mint green yarn is also a 12ply thread! 😔 That would be the last segregating that I should be doing. And I would never ever try to do it again in the future as it slows me like a sloth!
Anyway, I am still glad with the result and that my customer loved it! It was a relief (for now) that I was able to finish this one. And now, I'm ready to deal with the third jump short. 😊
I'm trying to capture the perfect shade of neon pink color but I only have these. The unfinished jump short picture that I showed you above really captured its true color. 
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IMG_20220928_083121.jpgThank you for reading my post, 'till next time. God bless everyone.
Love lots,
@jonalyn2020 😘
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I wonder how long it takes to make crochets? and its a whole clothing! such craftsmanship! this should value x20 the work hehe ✨💯
Let's help build each other!
Usually it takes 3-5 days for me to make this one before.
How I wish all my buyers know the real value of these kind of craft as you do @sensiblecast. 🥰 Thank you for dropping by. Appreciate it a lot.
@jonalyn2020 I had never seen such beautiful work with crochet, many women here show their wonders with wool and needles, but it was fun to see such beautiful cloth made from crochet. You have also made the choice of color very sexy, wearing it, any girl will look very beautiful.
Thank you so much @fantom22. 🥰 I really appreciate your comment. God bless you. 🥰
What a wonderful work sis! I know how hard it it to be crocheting while separating the yarns.
more MTO for you to come and Hive too!
Have you done it also @yoieuqudniram? It takes you longer to finish the product.. anyway, thanks for dropping by 🥰
I do not accept MTO, for now, sis, I see that blogging income is more easy than crochet. I have lot of indophil yarns and it triggers my allergy. Im a crocheting fro fun nalnag ngayon
I'm thinking of that also sis. Cease fire Muna sa MTO siguro. Gusto ko ifocus yung flower bouquet, bali onhand lang. Pag may time lang.
wearables din kasi ang gawa ko dati sis tapos yung customer daming demads, gusto ganitong design, ganitong kulay ag barat pa ng bayad haha.
kay bo nalang ako, di pa sumasakit ang liko dko at yung rhinitis ko di umaatake
Di rin kasi ako makapag fulltime talaga s blogging sis, sumasakit yung mata at ulo ko at nahihilo ako pag ganung matagal na nakatutuk sa cp o computer. Kaya bihira ako nakakapost,.Minsan naiinis na din ako sa customer na demanding. Hahaha.. kaya parang 2nd to the last na muna to.since may natanggap akong Isa pang order na di pwede tanggihan. Hahaha
bak a need mo lang ng eyeglasses sis. haha.
oo minsan ganuntalaga nag mg acustomers kay adapat habaan nag pasensys, gawa ka nalang ng shopee account and sell there yung mga gawa mo,
Meron na din akong glasses sis.okay naman daw mata ko pero meron lang astigmatism s right side na eyes. I already have a shop. s shopee ko dinadaan magpa check out yung mga customers ko. Planning to make more flower bouquet at s shopee at TikTok ko ipost. Preparation for valentine's day. hahaha Ang layu pa. Pero gusto ko lang makapag start now para makilala ng mga buyers yung name at shop so easy nalang s kanila to remember where mag order ng flower bouquet.
It's quite hard but you did a beautiful result. So happy for you!
Thank you so much @mooontivated. 😍
Welcome Ms. Jona
Ay, Ms. Jona talaga. 😅🥰
Oi, welcome to Hive nga Pala di kita nawelcome dun sa intro post mo, Alfred. Hehe. I like it when you call some hivers their name. I mean just what you did now, calling me Jona. It's very new.
Beautiful project that you have done, they are fabulous pieces, I do not knit but I loved the model and I could do it in fabric because it should be beautiful to the body. I congratulate you for your work and your perseverance in finishing it because the details you went through were not easy at all. Greetings and thanks for sharing your work.
Thank you so much @mariela-b 🥰 I would love to see your version of this jump short in fabric. 🥰God bless you.
Is good has your customer reorder the dress and she will not stop to other more be the dress look So beautiful. I love it
Yeah, she's telling me she wanted to order another 10sets of wearables but I'm a little hesitant since she ask the price way too low.
Anyway, thank you @mosesessien for dropping by.
Hi @jonalyn2020, Wow!it turned out beautiful,the color I really liked is perfect; excellent work, how long did it take you to finish it?
Blessings!
Thank you @belkyscabrera.🥰 usually it only take 3-5days of working 1jumpshort. Well that's before when my partner cans still help do the house chores, but now that I have to do it alone, plus the kids that needs to prepare for school everyday, it took me 1month.😅
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Incredible, I can only say Waooo! it's beautiful, perfect, I love the color, everything is very well done.
Thank you so much @carolinacardoza. 🥰 God bless you.
Waooo, this suit is really beautiful.I love the color.
Congratulations because you knew how to take on the challenge and face the difficulties with the yarn and in spite of all that you obtained an excellent result.
Oh, my heart is full. Thank you so much @kattycrochet. 🥰 God bless you.
Your work is so neat @jonalyn2020! And the pieces are stunning. Crochet really requires patience. Sometimes, I get tired when I’ve spent a lot of time on a project. Kudos for completing your orders!