Here we are! No, I didn’t apply the blur, I blame whoever published the photo. My biggest cross stitch moment had to be when I met Grumpy Cat and got to present her with a cross stitch catnip pillow I designed and made. DMC is the organization/company that sells all the cross stitch thread (“floss”) and fabric. I did this for about 5 years, as well as selling kits, and made quite a bit of extra cash on the side.Ī few years into selling cases, 4-5 years into my cross stitching career, I became an official DMC Cross Stitching Mentor. I looked into importing the cases from China and becoming a US distributor and the finances made sense so I went for it. This is when I began incorporating some video game art into my repertoire. They took months to arrive and I loved them. Then I thought back to a few stitchable iPhone cases I’d bought from China a year prior. Stitching custom pieces was almost impossible to turn a profit on – it’s slooooooow going when stitching. I sold a few South Park patterns but it never amounted to much. What’s better than getting paid for a hobby you’re doing in your free time!? Patterns were an obvious way to make some money but I don’t own a lot of intellectual property so there was always that risk of copyright violation. The more and more I designed and stitched the more and more I tried to figure out a way to monetize cross stitching. Once I felt pretty comfortable with my skills I started doing some commission pieces for people on Reddit. I created patterns for a host of South Park characters and worked on those when I was remote. When I needed to get out and actually be around people, usually in a coffee shop, I took smaller projects with me. I usually worked on the big mural in my apartment just because of the size and infrastructure required. I began by working on a HUGE South Park mural. I was on a pretty serious South Park bender at the time and the art in South Park lends itself to cross stitching so a lot of my early work was South Park themed. Let me take you on a brief tour of my cross-stitching career!įor nearly 2 years back in 2011 I spent almost every evening and every weekend cross stitching or designing cross stitch patterns.
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