Caydo

What to know about shopping at Caydo

Caydo splits cleanly into two halves, and knowing which one you are shopping saves a lot of scrolling. One half is machines — I-Cord knitting machines, yarn winders, embroidery machines, button-maker presses and screen-printing gear. The other is project kits and the consumables that feed them, including embroidery kits, diamond-painting and paint-by-number sets and beading supplies. The art projectors sit slightly apart from both, since they are a tool for tracing artwork up to size rather than a craft in themselves.

That split is the buying decision. A machine only pays for itself if the craft is something you return to, because the up-front cost is carried across everything you go on to make. A kit is a single finished project with everything included. If you are trying a craft for the first time, or buying for someone who might be, the kit side is the lower-risk place to start and tells you whether the machine is worth it later.

With the machines, the ongoing cost is worth thinking about before the purchase price. Knitting machines need yarn, embroidery machines need stabilizer and thread, button makers need blanks, and screen printing needs ink and emulsion. None of that is expensive individually, but it is recurring, and a machine with cheap consumables beats a slightly better one whose supplies are hard to source. Storage matters too, since most of these are bench tools rather than things you put away in a drawer.

On savings, shipping is free once an order passes $70, which is easy to clear on a machine and worth batching consumables toward otherwise. A membership scheme collects points on orders. There is no standing public code at the time of writing.

— MoneySaverCodes Team