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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

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yo what up, kinda forgot I had this sideblog but anyway here's 2 little triptychs I made for the show I'm at this weekend:

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i've decided to try out shopify for a little bit. all the patterns that were available on etsy have been moved over to the new shop. take a look and let me know what you think!

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Disappointed that it had to come to this, but unless Etsy makes some major changes in the way they treat the people paying their bills, I will not be using the site anymore.

Alternative webshop recommendations are gladly received. You can always get in touch with me by email, Instagram DM, or tumblr message.

Cheers.

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my local con started a virtual vendor page and i’m listed! check out some of my vendor friends as well, most of them ship worldwide!

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the classic "don't do coke in the bathroom" piece, but make it Eurovision

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so true to form, I did not finish this in time for the Supernatural finale.... although considering how things went, maybe that was for the best. let's get back back to when the show was good with a good old exorcism!

this pattern is up for free on my google drive! tiny.cc/CrapstitchFandom

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*insert spongebob joke here*

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older millennials first tik tok

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another new pattern!

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new pattern up!!!

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Added a new folder to my google drive of some free meme patterns! Currently includes Comic Book Guy, Got The Morbs, Yvan Eht Nioj, and 2 versions of Thursday the 20th

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happy thursday the 20th!

i remembered this simpsons meme at work yesterday and whipped up a pattern when i came home. unfortunately i won’t have time to stitch it for today, and the next thursday the 20th isn’t until september 2018, so have a free pattern!! (i personally think it would look amazing in metallics but i sure as hell don’t have the patience for that.) 

if you make one and post it please tag me, i’d love to see!

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idk guys can we all report this etsy shop for like, actively trying to further covid during a global pandemic. can we please do that. is that allowed

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Here we go! A PDF of free pride patterns, plus a couple Trans Rights patterns. Use as needed, please just credit me if you do! 

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hey all, i’m putting together a free pdf of small pride cross stitch patterns and i wanna get as many groups represented as possible. reply to this post with a flag you’d like to see in there?

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UPDATE JUNE 2020: I DO NOT support JK Rowling in her cruel and unjust prejudice against trans women (her TERF-ness, if you will). I am leaving this pattern up as a celebration of all the good Harry Potter has done, for me and thousands of others around the world, but urge anyone reading this to do your research as to why Jo is no longer a person worthy of your support.

alright, here it is, my fricken masterpiece: the Harry Potter sampler!

each line is a pictorial representation of the events of every book. the border is house colours. it measures about 16 by 20 inches and it took me a year to finish; 14 hours of which were just put in this past friday.

pattern should be up for sale soon!