The coronavirus. It's something that is affected all of our lives and for many of us it is affected us personally. Especially those of us in the United States Who have felt the repercussions of this virus in the forms of job loss or minimal income.
I'm fortunate that my husband is an essential worker and he still has his job and earns income however, a lot of the projects that he was going to be working on had to get postponed because of the coronavirus. this meant that he wasn't getting any of the overtime hours that he usually gets and our monthly budget started getting slimmer.
I'm now at a point where I may start making plans to seriously get back into making more patterns, taking on more pattern commissions, or finding ways to advertise my shop so I can sell more patterns. All in an effort to maybe boost our monthly income a little bit just to pick up whatever slack a husband isn't able to get through his work.
And I'm looking to you guys for ideas. For suggestions. What kind of things would you like to see or buy? What kind of things would you support? Are any of you interested in commissions for new patterns that you can work on during this quarantine?
The only way that I can think of as a selling point is that we are all stuck in quarantine, and we all need something new to work on! So many of us have so much time on our hands since we are home that we are probably running out of cross stitching to work on.
I didn't have any plans to really get back into cross stitching and making patterns for a bit because I'm still unpacking boxes, my office is still a mess and my desk isn't even set up or assembled, and there's so many other things and phone calls and mail and papers that I have to sort through.
But, I may need to get back into it sooner than I thought. I currently only make about 5 or $10 a month on selling patterns and I need to find a way to up that considerably.
But I'm feeling that it might not be very viable because I highly doubt I can make $200-300 a month on patterns and commissions. Maybe I'll take up a work from home job that doesn't require telephones... Because it never fails, the moment I'm on the telephone, that's when my 3-year-old decides to be her loudest.
The first, I'd like to see where commissions and pattern making take me. Or maybe I'll finally get out my sewing machine and I will make masks. I would rather try to make any extra income by doing things I enjoy rather than being a corporate drone in front of my computer.
