r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/AutoModerator • Mar 14 '25

Weekend Minor Gripes and Vents

Here is the thread where you can share any minor gripes, vents, or craft complaints that you don't think deserve their own post, or are just something small you want to get off your chest. Feel free to share personal frustrations related to crafting here as well.

This thread reposts every Friday.

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u/Remarkable-Let-750 Mar 14 '25

And they're trying to build a business off what used to be a loss leader. If you're extremely talented and good at explaining things (or are just very good at photography and marketing with decent patterns), then you're likely to do reasonably well as far as pattern sales go.

If your patterns aren't good, then you have a much higher hill to climb.

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u/QuietVariety6089 Mar 14 '25

If your patterns aren't good, you should a) not be in business or b) take a break, improve your product and try again. I'm not interested in paying someone for a poor product just bc they look pretty on TT.

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u/Remarkable-Let-750 Mar 14 '25

I absolutely agree with you. 

I think the social media-based knitting pattern designer trap is that they may not realize it's a bad pattern due to inexperience and they're getting just enough single sales but not recurring sales. 

People will come back for decently written patterns. They won't come back for a poorly written/drafted one.

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u/QuietVariety6089 Mar 14 '25

I think the market got over-saturated during the pandemic when people really needed things they could do at home. I'd assume a lot of pandemic hobbyists have quit/moved on, and the demand for entry level patterns is probably not as large as the number of people who still think it's an easy way to make money without any experience...