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@feystitches
I wanted to do one of those cute ‘stitch a manga screen cap’ ideas that I’ve seen in a couple of other places, but I didn’t quite leave myself enough room for as much detail as I wanted! That being said I’m giving this away (hoop/needleminder not included, just the fabric!) if anyone would like to just pay shipping on it! I live in the UK so I’m not asking for more than $4 just to cover shipping
The bi pride version of the big of heart / dumb of ass pattern that I started on for a friend back in April/May! Just a small patch rather than the full heart.
Strong of heart. Trans of gender. Dumb of ass.
@shitpostsampler
>@\shitpostsampler
People making Patreon money off of other people's content is not very mickey d's actually
I will say as a craft blog, if I make a pattern from someone else’s memes on tumblr I post it for free, but the strong of heart / dumb of ass is actually a very popular motif and I was asked several months ago to make a ‘big of heart / dumb of ass’ design and only recently published it. While this is similar, we should be wary of claiming content that has a popular motif and has been circling the net for a few years now.While this is a great trans representation concept, it’s definitely a play on words that has been changed and reinterpreted already for quite a while.
peace was never an option
oof been a while since i did one of these but
Made a small alteration to the quote for the sake of pattern fitting, but :V
New pattern available on my etsy here!
Knitters be like “I’m going to tie a knot so elaborate you can wear it as a fashion accessory.”
Everyone else be like “Yes, but will you do it for me for free?”
In my limited personal experience knitting* is viewed very differently to other crafts.
No one has ever looked at one of my cross stitch or embroidery pieces and asked if they can have it, or if I’ll make them one just like that for free.
But knitting. Knitting is different. It’s seen as being so simple and, presumably, worthless that people feel free to pass unsolicited comment on your work as well as ask if they can have one. You name a price for doing so and they look at you like you should be able to magic free, decent quality, wool out of your arse so how very dare you suggest charging them for a scarf, hat, sweater, whatever (at this point you don’t bother mentioning that labour would have cost extra)
The one thing that knitting and stitching do have in common is the amount of people who will say: “Oh, I could never do that. It looks so complicated.”
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BUT this isn’t just my experience of it.
My sister used to earn money making clothes when she was between ‘proper’ jobs. She never had any issues with payment or pricing with a sewn garment. She’d give them a price, explain how much the various fabrics, notions and labour cost and that was it. She only ever had problems with people wanting knitted items. They’d haggle over the cost, whine about how long it it would take her to make (knitting time was always given in advance), complain about the quality of the cheap ass yarn they’d chosen, etc, etc.
As time passed she just gave up offering to knit items for money.
Why has knitting become such a devalued skill for anyone who isn’t a big name knitwear designer?
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*I assume crochet gets much the same reaction but I don’t crochet so I can’t comment on that.
I wonder if it’s so devalued because so many people grew up with a family member who knit as a hobby. That and machine knitting making knitted items so much cheaper.
I wore this shawl to my grandmother’s funeral:
Yes, her funeral. My grandmother, who taught me to knit, was in awe of this shawl. It is beaded lace and took me hours upon hours to complete. That is a queen sized bed it was being blocked on. If I were to add up the hours and calculate federal minimum wage (which is much less than the minimum wage here in MA), people just might choke
One of my aunts remarked how lovely it was, and asked if I would ever consider making them for sale
Knowing she was moderately well-off, not rich but comfortably middle / upper-middlr class, I decided to ask what she would pay for it
Keep in mind, hand knit beaded lace, covers a queen sized bed, probably 48-60 hours of work (maybe more; i never counted), took me months and months because it was done in my spare time
Guess what she suggested
Go on, guess
Got that number?
Ok, good
She suggested the grand and exorbitant price ooooofffffff……
$50.00
I laughed in her face and told her the materials cost that much (ok, maybe I exaggerated a bit. I shop sales almost religiously XD)
The cluelessness of some people just amazes me.
I tell people now that my knitting is like sex, if I like you and want to you don’t have to pay me, but if neither applies you couldn’t pay me enough.
I’ve got to remember that last one
Don’t ask crafters and artists to make you things for free. Just don’t. If they like you and you are lucky, you may get a gift. If you are not getting a gift and you like what they make, just fucking buy it, for the price they are asking. That’s how it works.
People have a stupid notion that, if you are enjoying doing something, then it’s NOT WORK, therefore it should be free. UGH.
I had an experience like @arirashkae. I crochet and a woman at the laundry whom I’m friendly with asked me if I could make her daughter an afghan like the one I was washing. It’s a throw that covers the top of a full-size bed with a complicated ripple pattern. Now, I do a lot of crochet and I could have whipped that up in three days, so I wanted to be fair. I totaled up the yarn in my head and doubled it for the labor. $250. Her eyebrows flew up into her hair and she actually said, “you shouldn’t try to rip people off when you’re just doing a bit of crochet.” I told her that it must be pretty good for “a bit of crochet” if she wanted to buy it instead of making it herself.
People who don’t do craft regard it as no better than the crap pipe cleaner decorations that they do for Hallowe’en which is why you just can’t sell craft.
there’s an entire group on ravelry dedicated to thwarting these gimmepigs (and ranting about them).
I’ve seen some knit/crocheted objects for sale on Etsy and similar, and am horrified by how little people ask for them.
This actually happened to me with my roommate’s boyfriend
My roommates boyfriend constantly does this like he saw me meal prepping (where I cook enough food for every meal of the day for the whole week) and then he was like “If I get the food can you do it for me?” like, this takes 6 hours to do minimum you have to pay me. Then when I told him he would have to pay me he was like “wait so I have to pay you AND get the food?” Like, that’s literally how professional meal prepping works. I’m not working for you for 6 hours at something that is not going to benefit me in any way shape or form.
Then he saw me making myself a winter coat (still working on it) he was like “can you make me a winter coat?” and I was like ‘no’ because I have very limited time and his status in my life is ‘roommate’s boyfriend’ and I’m not giving you crafted things I made. Then he was like “but I’ll get the materials and I started laughing because this was such a ridiculous thing to even ASK and then he seemed to think that I was about to agree and commit myself to making a WINTER COAT for him and was like “see? now bc it’s me going to the store and getting it [the fabric] it’s good now” or something like buddy, going to the store is the relaxing part. you get to look at the pretty fabrics and touch them and feel them and match them with the thread, the buttons, other fabric, pick out a clothing pattern maybe, it’s the start of the project and it’s fun! You going to the store to pick up the material, probably not enough of it, getting the wrong material since you don’t know what you’re doing or looking for, probably not getting the rest of the material (buttons, batting for insulation, sewing thread), probably not getting material for lining and probably not getting zippers and whatever else the clothing pattern specifies is needed and what quantity of it because you don’t know how to read a clothing pattern IS NOT A GOOD STAND IN FOR PAYMENT FOR A CUSTOM WINTER COAT MADE TO FIT YOU EXACTLY AND WITH THE MATERIAL YOU PICKED. It’s insulting that you expect me to make you a coat with no payment. Then I was like (jokingly, since I will not be doing it) ‘you have to pay me’ and then he was like ‘how much’ and I said ‘I need to research what is a fair price’
THEN HE LITERALLY TOLD ME “no!! don’t google it! you’ll get some crazy number!”
YOU WANT A CUSTOM WINTER COAT MADE WITH FABRIC YOU CAN PICK OUT AND YOU WANT IT HANDMADE, NO SHIT IT’S GOING TO BE A ‘CRAZY NUMBER’ BECAUSE IT ISN’T A MASS PRODUCED FAST FASHION PRODUCT, IT’S CUSTOM.
long story short: stop asking us to randomly make you things for free, it’s insulting. be appreciative AND USE/WEAR THE THINGS WE DO MAKE YOU AS GIFTS, if you want us to make you something say ‘I WILL pay you’ and then either be happy with the price we give you for the item, or tell us ‘I’m really sorry but that’s not in the budget for me right now’ and move on instead of trying to get us to debase ourselves and devalue our work. if you want it for ‘free’ then learn how to make it yourself.
‘but it’s hard’ you whine. THAT’S WHY WE WANT TO BE PAID AND WHY WE SET ‘CRAZY NUMBERS’ FOR OUR PRICES. WE HAVE VALUABLE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS, WE DESERVE TO BE PAIR FAIRLY FOR OUR LABOR AS A RESULT, EVERYONE DOES.
I have a saying: If you want something hand made you either pay a crafter what they deserve, or you learn to do it yourself. That’s it, those are your choices.
A gift that I made for a friend! You can find the pattern for it here on my etsy: link!
me: looks away from cross-stitch for literally 3 seconds
me: where’s my needle
Cross Stitch Pattern now available on my Etsy here for $2.50! The patterns are small and very easy to do. Each letter is 50x50 stitches. There is NOT a pattern enclosed for them next to one another, the "LGBT" File is for preview purposes only, if you wish to place them side by side, you will need to do them manually. If you want another Pride Flag (aka Ace, Aro, Nonbinary, and any other representation) pattern, you can contact me here or on Etsy and I'll make you an individual pattern for $2! If you have a custom pattern made, I’ll also include any of the LGBT letters for free with the order if you have a personal identity that involves both.
god wouldn’t let me sleep last night until I made this
What is “random soft toys made out of fleece”
That is soft sculpture, code for plushies for theoretical adults. What does it mean if you are everything except lawful neutral?
I was just confused because I looked up soft sculpture and it was all a lot more involved.
Yeah, it can be, but it doesn’t *have* to be. Plus, given its role as a piece of 3D art, and thus a sculpture, and in a gallery, and thus clearly accepted as art, I could easily argue that your sacrificial lamb qualifies.
Well… I mean… But…
Oh no! You’re an artist!
I’m all over this chart.
I hate to saw this but if you think that cross stitching, one of the few arts here in which you repeatedly STAB something four times to make one small square, and as a result, stab a canvas several thousand times to make pictures, is the lawful good section here... I have news for you
A pattern I made for a friend during a round of Secret Santas! This was mostly freehanded at the time but I’ve finally sat down and converted it to a full pattern here on my etsy for $2! This is a small, 58x63 pattern that fits perfectly in 3-4 inch hoops for ornaments and small gifts. It utilizes 4 DMC colors if you wish to fill in the white sections. It's very easy and perfect for beginner cross stitchers! Will post other pride patterns using this format if requested! Since it's a design I can edit easily, I'll happily publish lesbian/gay/trans/etc pride stitches in this version to my shop if someone's interested in them.
Interested in promoing your channel in a new and interesting way? Try cross stitching your own subscribe button! The pattern is now available on my etsy. :D
I now have a gumroad! This is where I will upload free patterns that I cycle out from my Etsy shop for patterns that haven’t sold for 3+ months so keep my shop clutter free. I’ve got 3 cycled out patterns for free already! If you’d like to see more free patterns on my Gumroad, please consider paying more than the minimum amount so I know there’s interest there!
Available as a pattern for cross stitching on my Etsy for $2 here! This is a relatively small pattern, very easy for beginners!
This is a new pattern I’ve posted to my shop here! It’s available to cross stitch. :)
The pins came in!! I love how they came out, they’re so awesome!
I still have extra stock left over from preorders, so you can still buy them for a limited time before they sell out. I can’t promise they’ll be back in the future for another preorder run!
Buy them here!
As for preorders, I got quite a few so I’m going to start packaging them up for shipment this week! I’m hoping to have them all mailed out within a week or two, so they should arrive to most destinations before Christmas.
RB’s appreciated!
