Glitch's Completed Projects - Updated 5/16/14

[glitch]

I love Cosplay. I'm envious of those with skills to create these masterpieces.

This is my stitch those that can:



One note, I don't think I've ever freaked out so much when my project was soaking. The white lettering disappeared COMPLETELY. I thought the water had eaten it until it dried. Than sanity was found.

[glitch]

Saw this on The Mary Sue blog and had to stitch it:



Original is here. I'm thinking either Tangled or Tinker Bell next...unless I get an idea for a Dark Brotherhood project that has been bouncing about in my head.

[Firehawke]

That sewing machine is so cute!!!

[mystikdreamer]

Aww! I love that cosplay one. It's adorable. I know a few friends who would appreciate that for a gift!

[glitch]

@Firehawke Thank you!

@mystikdreamer Thank you! Glad to hear that. Makes my confidence go up by a few points.

[glitch]

I'm going to be opening a shop soon, but I'm blanking on how much to charge for the completed cross stitch for these two patterns(I will note that these will be ironed out and shipped flat):



$20-$25



I have no clue....I bounced an idea off the hubby, $75-$80, and he looked at me like I had four heads...



Any help is greatly appreciated.

[samarin]

I personally have had zero success selling finished pieces on my etsy store - tho i haven't tried a lot of them. Going price for commissions on deviant art is about $1 per 100 stitches or so.

None of that is meant to discourage you, just to give you my experience and what information i have! Best of luck!

[StitchWitch]

Unfortunately you most likely will never get what the work is worth selling a cross stitch piece. As samarin said, going price is around $1 per 100 COMPLETED stitches, not fabric size (so if you have a 5x7 piece, you're not getting $35, but whatever the covered area equates to). No one that doesn't do the craft will pay for the time spent back stitching - or beading, or picking out wrong stitches and redoing them or any of the other thousand little things that goes into a completed work. People I know that sell their work tried to figure in a "wage per hour" for the time put into their pieces and by the time they were done they figured that they were earning around $0.02 per hour on some of the more complex pieces.

Again, as samarin said, I'm also not trying to be a downer or rain all over your parade. It's hard work to earn money off of a craft, no matter how awesome it is (the Lollipop Chainsaw piece is very cool and I've never even played the game.) I also wish you luck and hope you have success. I hope I have to eat my words when you come back on and post "well, StitchWitch, someone paid handsomely so take a long walk off a short pier."

Post more done stuff when you get it! It's fun to see what people can do.

[TigerLily]

I can't really give pricing advice since I've no idea how much time and effort goes into cross stitch. For my crochet and knitting I usually go by the idea of 4 times the cost of materials, but I don't know how much that would give you for your pieces.

I mostly came in to say that I love the Lollipop Chainsaw piece. That was such a fun game.

[glitch]

Thanks everyone for the advice. I've got it all stewing in the back of my mind and will figure it out at some point.

But in good news, I've opened my store.

And now back to playing with needles and threads.