How to handle a commission?
I've only been making baskets regularly for the last few months. I started making them as gifts for friends to share memories through patterns and color that I was having trouble expressing through word.
This week, a regular at the cafe I work at asked me for a commission. Without thinking too much about it I agreed. Then it occurred to me, I have no idea how to do this. I'm still relatively new to this, so my baskets have a ton of imperfections. I dont feel comfortable charging professional rates for a potentially flawed product, but at the same time it's not like I can bust out a basket in a day.
For more background, he recently gifted my husband a small custom resin ring dish for my husband's birthday, free of charge. Obviously the amount of work that goes into these two things are different, but he did work on it. For people who have taken commissions, how did you figure out pricing? I dont want this to be a regular thing, but I feel committed to this.
Pic of my first 3 baskets for attention