One stitch at a time

Are your kids back to school? Are you a stay-at-home parent who now has all this free time on their hands?

Now it's the perfect time to take advantage of my back to school sale! All patterns in my shop are 75% off now through the end of the month!

But I'm leaving it up to you all to share this around, reblog it, and spread the word. Because don't you want to enable your other stay-at-home parents to add more things to their pile so they have something to do during the day?

What's another reason I'm running a sale?

The obvious reason. Money is tight. And I'd like to have a little extra budget because I'm going to an out-of-state wedding at the end of the month and it would be nice to have a little spending cash.

And also, our mortgage went up. By 160 bucks. To some, that might not seem like a lot. When you're living paycheck to paycheck? Boy that is a lot.

You can show your support, when my money is tight. And remember that I have an Etsy site!

You love to cross stitch, and you know you want more. So go on and visit my Etsy store!

Link below:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/SturdyNerdyStitchery

If you still want to find ways to show your support in other ways, perhaps help contribute to my California fund ...you can check out my Kofi page and buy me a coffee. It's also where I keep all my free patterns. You heard that right. Free. 100%. You do not have to pay unless you feel it's necessary.

But here's your caveat. I don't want to hear you complaining about the patterns. You got them for free. What more do you want! If you donated to the pattern cause because you felt bad for them, then thank you. But you still shouldn't complain. You made the choice.

Find the link to my Kofi page below:

Plus, I want to try to make as much cash as I can beforehand because I've also got a picture in to help pay for the rental car that my cousin's getting.

You know you need more for less! 75% off can get you quite a bit of patterns. Think about how much you could get for $10, especially if you get patterns that are already discounted. I think I have a couple that are a dollar or less.

I've had some designers tell me I shouldn't do that but I've worked retail enough that sometimes you got to have a couple items or two that are on the cheap side for those that maybe don't have a big budget but they still want to cross stitch something.

‘My cat hates generative AI’ cross stitch pattern 😾😿‼️❌✨

…and so do I! 😐

GenAI is dumb, lazy, and evil. It has absolutely no place in any creative area and should never be used to replace human-made art. Also, it’s ugly af, and no one wants to see your weird AI slop flyer.

Supporting your fave small artists/designers is so important right now bc we’re all deeply concerned about our future as creatives. Besides, there’s no better feeling than leaving a kind comment, sharing someone’s art, or purchasing something from a talented small business. 💗

Also, my cat will scratch anyone who tries to upload a cringey AI cross stitch pattern onto etsy btw. Only losers use generative AI (and ChatGPT). 😾

my first bag ive sewn!! and hes a whale shark (or at least he’s supposed to be)

I purchased a pattern from a designer for a cross stitch to make a gift for someone.

I bought the floss in specified colors and had a huge “Ok, trust the process” moment.

The subject in the design is supposed to be a piece of toast. “Mana Toast,” to be specific. Ok, the blues make sense then. The browns make sense. The orange and yellow?

Trust the process.

Ummm… I’m getting more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vibes than Dungeon Crawler Carl…

Trust the process…

It looks like pizza to me. The angular slice and the brown spots read sausage pizza. The recipient likes the piece but I was going to make one for myself and I can’t get over the colors.

I have another project that has a cross stitch piece of toast (am I toast obsessed?) and I just purchased those colors today. The two on each end and two in the middle are the original brown on the left, I picked the ones in the middle and the right is the pattern I have. If I do it right those will look way more toasty to me…

Here’s where I have a question for you:

I’d personally be ok with it as long as they didn’t claim it’s a whole new thing they imagined up themselves. I’ve created a couple cross stitch patterns that I’ve posted for free on FB and I couldn’t care less if they’re manipulated.

But anyway. I’m gonna make the toast my way. It’s gonna be on the wall somewhere in my house where maybe three people in my life that would ever see it would get the reference.

Made this today to celebrate water and grace🦦🌊🐟

Free pattern ➡️ link below