I JUST SAW YOUR POST COMPLAINING ABOUT CHARGING FOR THE VALUE OF JEWELRY VS GETTING RID OF IT AND I FEEL YOU SO HARD I DO BEADING & CROCHET AND EVERY TIME PEOPLE SEE ME DOING IT THEY ASK ME TO MAKE THEM SOMETHING BUT THEN WHEN I GIVE THEM A PRICE ESTIMATE (just materials, not even including labor) THEYRE ALL ‘lol no im not paying that much wth’ LIKE YALL THIS SHIT IS EXPENSIVE I CANT JUST GIVE IT AWAY

unpretty:

IT’S SO MUCH HARDER WITH FIBER CRAFTS

my jewelry stuff takes up so much less room, comparatively, than my cross-stitch and yarn and fabric, but, god. with cross-stitch i’m just spending hours and days working these teeny-tiny little stitches and then when i’m done it’s like “well, i never want to see this again but i guess i have it forever now” (i give them as gifts but i just make tiny magnets most of the time because i don’t want my loved ones overwhelmed with cross-stitch canvases all over the place). like? does anyone who likes the cross-stitch aesthetic not just cross-stitch themselves? i don’t even know who my target market would be. people can make a living selling cross-stitch patterns but they have to be so good (or, on the other end of the spectrum, so bad because they just run art they don’t own through a cross-stitch converter and sell patterns en masse and make money off people who want to make fandom things and don’t care about the ethics of the pattern they’re buying). i don’t know if anyone out there is making good money selling finished cross-stitches but bless them if they can pull it off.

my mom used to make quilts but getting people to pay what a quilt is worth is such a fucking struggle when they can just buy a mass-produced quilt-like thing from walmart for $30. AND YARN. GETTING ANYONE TO PAY FOR HAND-KNIT ITEMS. CHRIST.

whenever i see anyone talk about how great it would be if people made things in real life instead of crafting virtual items in video games i just want to shake them like BITCH HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO SELL A SCARF. HAVE YOU EVER. BECAUSE I GUARANTEE YOU THE VIRTUAL PAWN SHOP IS GONNA BUY THIS VIRTUAL SCARF. NO ONE’S GONNA TRY TO HAGGLE ME DOWN ON THESE PIXELS, I ASSURE YOU. MY HOUSE IS DROWNING IN WOODEN HOOPS AND FLOSS AND FABRIC AND THESE ARE PROBLEMS I WOULD NOT HAVE IF I PLAYED MINECRAFT.