Efficent Enchantment Skill-up

What is the most cost-effective way to increase enchantment? it seems too expensive to buy materials from vendors, and finding soul gems that have souls in them takes a while.

Solution 1:

These are all the ways to gain experience for enchanting:

• Disenchanting items
• Enchanting items
• Using Soulgems to recharge weapons (Soul Siphon does not count)

Personally the method I use is the one suggested in the wiki, which is to craft iron daggers, and then using petty soulgems to enchant them with a low level enchantment, and selling the daggers back to the shopkeeper.

This allows you to improve three skills at the same time: smithing, enchanting, and speech. The amount you make selling the enchanted items offsets the cost of buying the materials.

Just grab/buy every low level soulgem you come across and you'll level up enchanting in no time. Having a soul trap weapon will make this process much easier.

Solution 2:

I managed to find a weapon that has the ability to trap souls inside of soul gems - I disenchanted it to learn the ability, and applied the enchantment to my primary weapon. Now I just have to carry around soul gems and kill things as I normally would; they get filled automatically.

You should also note that while soul gems can be expensive, you can enchant trinkets that you find during your dungeon-crawling and sell those for an inflated profit.

Solution 3:

Buy the spell:soul trap and fill the empty gems yourself. Can be bought at the nearest spell book seller.