Call out for help! (Sair and Kitty mainly)

[gemfyre]

Is there anyone sewing-oriented down in Perth who would be willing to make a bunch of gaiters for us? I was thinking maybe Sair or Kitty would be able to do it for a quick days pay (around $100 - price is negotiable, depends on materials cost and stuff).

Gaiters are those little sock protector things. Just a bit of cotton with elastic in the top sewn together to pull over your foot and sit over a boot. (Kitty - your sister probably knows exactly what I'm talking about). I'm not sure about Perth, but Coles up here sells them for $2.30 a pop. If you bought one pair as a guide or borrowed some of someone to use that would work.

They're made of either cotton or cotton/polyester (reasonably stiff material). Greens and blacks are good.

I was thinking Sair may be most interested seeing she's one of the gainfully unemployed at the moment. We'd need about 20 pairs.

Anyway, if anyone's interested gimee a hoy and maybe work out how much they'd cost to produce and we can go from there.

Comments

[princessapphire.livejournal.com]

I hope I don't sound rude here, but wouldn't it be cheaper just to buy them outright? If they are only $2.30 a pair and you only need 20 pair, then you'd be spending way less than the $100 you'd be paying someone to make them for you.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

We're going to get a logo printed or embroidered onto them once they arrive here. And we may order more in the future (these are for sale in the little shop here at the Observatory). Hence keeping costs down is of the utmost importance.

[princessapphire.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it seems to me that it would be cheaper if you bought them outright? I'm adding it up and it comes to below $100?

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

I can prolly help if you have no other takers, but I have no idea what gaiters are...

But the poster above is right about them being cheaper from Coles, unless the $100 is meant to cover the logo and such as well?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Yeah I realised that. Not sure what the payment would be. I'll ask Ricki when I can.