Income to Expense Ratio

Last month is the first month in 11 months that the company has had more income than expenses.

This is because traffic to the shop through Etsy has increased resulting in 9 online orders. Additionally, only 2 of the orders came from Etsy’s Offline Ads program which incures an additional 15% fee for advertising.

Monthly expenses have dropped off now that the workshop and rope machine are mostly setup. Still have things to do but most of the materials required have already been gathered.

Soon I’ll need to build a winding machine and yarn inspection table which will require some hardware, a motor, a foot control switch, and a speed control switch. Hopefully I can build it for less than $500.

Just Right

Today I spooled some more yarn and ran it through the machine with a slight feed rate adjustment to the machine. People that buy Twisted Jute rope expect the rope to have a certain feel to it which is determined by the twist in the strands. The Twisted Jute 6mm rope has a rope lay of 21mm ±1.5mm.

As you can see in these photos the machine is properly calibrated…

The next step is to build a machine that will allow me to wind several spools at once while inspecting the yarn…