Yeah, if I had a dollar for every friend/family member who are always like, "You should set up an online store and sell your stuff," I'd have... well, enough to buy several new skeins of yarn.
It's hard to get people to understand that - for the prices people are willing to pay for stuff and depending on your speed - you're making only $3 an hour or less. And that's before taking into consideration materials costs. And a lot of stuff only tends to sell if it's fandom related, and there's fandoms where selling physical stuff's okay but pattern's aren't, and others - like Homestuck - don't like you selling anything... ugh.
The thing that get's me about the Homestuck stuff is that I can understand restricting tshirts and merchandise that the shop already sells. But there's so many other things the shop doesn't sell (Nepeta cosplay hats always come to mind for some reason), and there are hoards of people willing to make them and hoards of people willing to buy them, but the only way to get them because of the sale embargo is to trade, and even that doesn't usually work since the main reason to buy something is because you don't have the time/skill to make it or something of equal value in the first place.
Bah. (Sorry that turned into a rant.)
On a more positive note, I've been thinking of making patterns for public domain characters/fandoms like Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz. It seems like the best merger of fandom/avoiding copyright.
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Yeah, if I had a dollar for every friend/family member who are always like, "You should set up an online store and sell your stuff," I'd have... well, enough to buy several new skeins of yarn.
It's hard to get people to understand that - for the prices people are willing to pay for stuff and depending on your speed - you're making only $3 an hour or less. And that's before taking into consideration materials costs. And a lot of stuff only tends to sell if it's fandom related, and there's fandoms where selling physical stuff's okay but pattern's aren't, and others - like Homestuck - don't like you selling anything... ugh.
The thing that get's me about the Homestuck stuff is that I can understand restricting tshirts and merchandise that the shop already sells. But there's so many other things the shop doesn't sell (Nepeta cosplay hats always come to mind for some reason), and there are hoards of people willing to make them and hoards of people willing to buy them, but the only way to get them because of the sale embargo is to trade, and even that doesn't usually work since the main reason to buy something is because you don't have the time/skill to make it or something of equal value in the first place.
Bah. (Sorry that turned into a rant.)
On a more positive note, I've been thinking of making patterns for public domain characters/fandoms like Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz. It seems like the best merger of fandom/avoiding copyright.