Bear Man Xstitch

Full step by step photo tutorial on my crochet Fairy Lights Afghan is up on my blog! Link in my profile! 🧚‍♀️💗✨️

Check out this playlist featuring more crochet Square tutorials here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXwG-nU-M9Lr07cxLpoPLWs44Klsv0jVx

PI DAY 2026 LET'S GO

This year for Pi Day I'm doing a free cross-stitch stitch-a-long with a nonogram twist!

Every day from March 1st to 14th, a new nonogram will be released on mathysphere dot gay (with two nonograms released on the first day). Each nonogram is one part of a larger design; if you stitch them together into a grid, the full piece will be revealed!

Details on fabric etc after the cut----

Chase away, Saint George, evil powers from our doors.

For a little over a year, I've been using this app/website called FreeCash. It's yet another one of those apps where you download a mobile game through their link, play it, and get payouts for completing certain milestones. I've done SO MANY of these before and most of them suck. But FreeCash surprised me. In about a year I've made $1,430. Which yes, I play these games a lot. And yes, I do spend some on micro-transactions. But, personally, I would be doing that anyway.

I've posted on here before that my partner and I are in a SHIT financial position, so the two of us using this app does actually help out a bit. $30 from FreeCash has been the difference between getting groceries and not. Here's where y'all come in.

If you don't already use this app and you think it sounds like it would be nice for you, use my affiliate link.

https://freecash.com/r/3ba0049be4

The referral system on this app rewards you more the more money your referrals make. Right now, I get a kickback of 6% of what my referrals make. It doesn't take any money from you, it just rewards me for having referred you. Depending on how many people and how much those people make, this number can get pretty substantial.

So if you play mobile games and want to throw some broke trans people a bone, try playing them through this app.

For a little over a year, I've been using this app/website called FreeCash. It's yet another one of those apps where you download a mobile game through their link, play it, and get payouts for completing certain milestones. I've done SO MANY of these before and most of them suck. But FreeCash surprised me. In about a year I've made $1,430. Which yes, I play these games a lot. And yes, I do spend some on micro-transactions. But, personally, I would be doing that anyway.

I've posted on here before that my partner and I are in a SHIT financial position, so the two of us using this app does actually help out a bit. $30 from FreeCash has been the difference between getting groceries and not. Here's where y'all come in.

If you don't already use this app and you think it sounds like it would be nice for you, use my affiliate link.

https://freecash.com/r/3ba0049be4

The referral system on this app rewards you more the more money your referrals make. Right now, I get a kickback of 6% of what my referrals make. It doesn't take any money from you, it just rewards me for having referred you. Depending on how many people and how much those people make, this number can get pretty substantial.

So if you play mobile games and want to throw some broke trans people a bone, try playing them through this app.

The Mini Clown Possum Crochet Pattern has been released on my Etsy and on NichetCrochet.com!

The pattern includes plenty of helpful photos to guide you through your crocheting process. There are thorough explanations of the trickier parts, such as the feet and the ruffled collar. I plan on recording a YouTube video about how to sew this piece together!

These clown possums are perfect for your possum collection, especially if you've already made the regular one! Now your possum can have 13 baby clown possums 🤡

Get your pattern today using the link below!

So as many of you know financial stuff for my little family has been hard. One roommate moving out and leaving the rest of us with a lease we can't afford. Another roommate lost their job so I'm now the only income in a house with rent that was challenging for 3. Multiple people have undergone multiple serious surgeries with long recovery times. Appliances shitting the bed and needing to be replaced.

I've made multiple posts here asking for any help people can give through cross stitch commissions that I offer, buying from my Etsy store (https://www.etsy.com/shop/BearManXstitch), or tips to my kofi (https://ko-fi.com/bearmanxstitch). But I know money is tight for everyone and that's not something many can do.

That's where Twitch comes in. My partner has made it far enough in their recovery that they can get back to streaming. However, they aren't affiliate so they haven't been able to monetize it yet. They had to take 2 months off, so they're starting over on the rolling metrics (8 hours in 30 days, certain number of different days, avg 3 viewers), but they had those before the break and are on track to get them again. The big hurdle for them is the 50 follower mark. They're only 14 away and just need a boost to get over that hill. Then they'll be able to monetize their twitch and we'll have another income stream!

If anyone would be able to throw them a follow, or even pop into a stream, we'd really appreciate it.

Schedule:

MWTh - 6:30pm-10pm EST

Monday - Art

Wednesday - Video Games

Thursday - Knitting

Sun - TBD - Cozy Games

Update 1 - PeppermintLark made affiliate!!! That means their streams just got way more fun! Follower emotes. Sub emotes. Customer bit alerts. It's a lot of work to get it all set up and making money from it will still take quite some time, but they're on their way!

Update 2 - money stuff is more dire than ever. I don't get paid for another week and I genuinely don't know how I'm going to scrounge together money for groceries right now. I know things are tight for everyone, but if you happen to have something to help this queer AuDHD household afford groceries for the next week, I'd be infinitely grateful.

Do yourself a favor and check out Swanson's Fabrics! The physical location is in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, USA, but the online shop will ship to you!

I can't remember who first told me about Swanson's, but they're a textile thrift shop that collects and repurposes donations of unused sewing supplies. Their physical location, The Stash House, offers community sewing resources and a studio. For non-locals (such as myself), their online shop offers fabrics, patterns, and notions. The shop restocks on Thursdays, and they have a constantly-rotating collection of items. If you like thrifting secondhand craft materials, Swanson's is for you!

Via their official "about" page:

Swanson’s Fabrics and notions are gifts from retired sewing stashes. They are the fabrics and supplies that sewers and fiber-artists naturally accumulate. I had a suspicion that the reason we all collect so much is that we didn’t have a place “good enough” to take it. So I made the place. Turns out I was right, and thanks to my community (and yours) of makers and crafters, I can resell these fine materials at a low, approachable cost. ALL FABRICS ARE $5.00/yd, NO MATTER WHAT THEY ARE MADE OF. REALLY. I MEAN IT. I KNOW. UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE! As we come to grips with the climate crisis, interrupted supply lines, and our dependency on slave-labor in far away countries to produce our cotton and fiber goods, we need another way to approach the fabrics in our lives. We have a massive resource of textile goods in our country and it is time to tap into it. Our attics, basements, thrift-store donation bins, and dumpsters are brimming with discarded fabrics. It is time to start making and trading for the things we need, and stop buying so much new stuff we don’t. We need to see ourselves as trash-rich. Customers at Swanson’s can pay for goods and services with goods and services. I accept trade of sewing and fiber supplies/materials, and trade for help in the shop. I hope to inspire you to make your own clothes, to mend the ones you have, to shop second-hand and alter things to your taste. There is a lot of power in dressing yourself. Custom is king, and you can’t have a revolution in your master’s clothes…. ❤️💪🏻 -Kathryn

The CovidSafeCosplay blog and its admin are unaffiliated with Swanson's Fabrics, and are simply sharing the resource.

So as many of you know financial stuff for my little family has been hard. One roommate moving out and leaving the rest of us with a lease we can't afford. Another roommate lost their job so I'm now the only income in a house with rent that was challenging for 3. Multiple people have undergone multiple serious surgeries with long recovery times. Appliances shitting the bed and needing to be replaced.

I've made multiple posts here asking for any help people can give through cross stitch commissions that I offer, buying from my Etsy store (https://www.etsy.com/shop/BearManXstitch), or tips to my kofi (https://ko-fi.com/bearmanxstitch). But I know money is tight for everyone and that's not something many can do.

That's where Twitch comes in. My partner has made it far enough in their recovery that they can get back to streaming. However, they aren't affiliate so they haven't been able to monetize it yet. They had to take 2 months off, so they're starting over on the rolling metrics (8 hours in 30 days, certain number of different days, avg 3 viewers), but they had those before the break and are on track to get them again. The big hurdle for them is the 50 follower mark. They're only 14 away and just need a boost to get over that hill. Then they'll be able to monetize their twitch and we'll have another income stream!

If anyone would be able to throw them a follow, or even pop into a stream, we'd really appreciate it.

Schedule:

MWTh - 6:30pm-10pm EST

Monday - Art

Wednesday - Video Games

Thursday - Knitting

Sat - TBD - Cozy Games

So my roommate got fired .... Again. My pay isn't terrible but it can't support 3 adults and pay the rent for a house that was planned for 3 incomes by itself. I'm doing what I can't to pinch everything that comes in and find some extra sources on top of it.

So that's where this post comes in. I'm opening up emergency commissions. I can generate cross stitch patterns, stitch pieces of varying sizes for physical products, and do sample stitching for other pattern makers. Because of the high variability with material cost/time based on complexity of the piece, estimates are difficult to give for physical products, but patterns start at $5 for up to 3" x 3" font work and go up from there. All is open to discussion based on the product and the budget of the customer.

So my roommate got fired .... Again. My pay isn't terrible but it can't support 3 adults and pay the rent for a house that was planned for 3 incomes by itself. I'm doing what I can't to pinch everything that comes in and find some extra sources on top of it.

So that's where this post comes in. I'm opening up emergency commissions. I can generate cross stitch patterns, stitch pieces of varying sizes for physical products, and do sample stitching for other pattern makers. Because of the high variability with material cost/time based on complexity of the piece, estimates are difficult to give for physical products, but patterns start at $5 for up to 3" x 3" font work and go up from there. All is open to discussion based on the product and the budget of the customer.

So my roommate got fired .... Again. My pay isn't terrible but it can't support 3 adults and pay the rent for a house that was planned for 3 incomes by itself. I'm doing what I can't to pinch everything that comes in and find some extra sources on top of it.

So that's where this post comes in. I'm opening up emergency commissions. I can generate cross stitch patterns, stitch pieces of varying sizes for physical products, and do sample stitching for other pattern makers. Because of the high variability with material cost/time based on complexity of the piece, estimates are difficult to give for physical products, but patterns start at $5 for up to 3" x 3" font work and go up from there. All is open to discussion based on the product and the budget of the customer.

So my roommate got fired .... Again. My pay isn't terrible but it can't support 3 adults and pay the rent for a house that was planned for 3 incomes by itself. I'm doing what I can't to pinch everything that comes in and find some extra sources on top of it.

So that's where this post comes in. I'm opening up emergency commissions. I can generate cross stitch patterns, stitch pieces of varying sizes for physical products, and do sample stitching for other pattern makers. Because of the high variability with material cost/time based on complexity of the piece, estimates are difficult to give for physical products, but patterns start at $5 for up to 3" x 3" font work and go up from there. All is open to discussion based on the product and the budget of the customer.