I've opened a Ko-fi shop. Come take a look!
hey y'all, just a shop update.
shopify is currently blocking my payments because they continually refuse my personal information for some reason. I'm not currently waiting on any funds, but if anyone purchases through this shop again I'll have no way to access the money. I was already planning to cancel my shopify subscription when it's up for renewal in June, so thankfully I had a back up ready to go. from now on I'll be selling through Ko-fi, which I'm excited about because for the first time since I started this shop I'll be getting every cent from my sales.
I have had one issue in moving platforms though. I store my patterns in my google drive and something strange happened that rendered all of the pdf files unusable. I was able to recover almost all of them from my long dead etsy account, but I did lose the pattern for the HP sampler. I don't plan on selling that one again (thanks for ruining everything jk terfling) but it was a lot of work and I'm really bummed to not have it in reserve.
moving forward, I think I'm going to shift the direction of the shop. cross stitch is a really time consuming medium and it's extremely difficult to ever have enough stock to fill a table at shows - which brings me to my next point: shows don't want me. I don't know if it's because they don't know where I fit in, or if they just don't like my work, but even shows I've done repeatedly in the past are denying me now. however in the past couple years I've taught myself to make vector images and made some stickers, and that seems to be a much more cost effective and marketable product. I'll still sew because I can't not do it, but I'm going to try to bring some new kinds of work in as well.
so for now, please buy through ko-fi if you're looking to sew some memes, and keep an eye out for some new stuff in the future.
-strom
