A new direction
I have done a terrible job at keep up with my friends list lately. All I want to do is lock myself in my apartment and make stuff. The idea of putting the effort together to leave my apartment is overwhelming.
For 7 years I have (in some form or another) made things to sell. A couple months ago, after I hit a "I'm just tired of all of it" breakdown of sorts, I decided to change directions and post tutorials on a blog and to sell patterns for download.
When I stopped worrying about making things I thought others would want to buy, I started coming up with things that people want to buy. At 28 years old, I was still trying to figure out who I was as a designer. In 2 weeks of making tutorials instead of products it became crystal clear what my design aesthetic is.
I have not had much luck in the past getting press for the products I created. Now that I am making tutorials of bizarre one-of-a-kind art-like pieces, I am getting almost too much press (too much because I don't have many projects posted yet and I've been very busy lately and not getting new projects posted as quickly as I would like).
I have decided to just ride the wave of people who are supportive and keep giving them what they want.
This brooch was included in a weekly roundup on Craftzine.com:
(I posted how to make this on howdidyoumakethis.com, too)
The people at Instructables have been wonderful to me (they even surprised us with food at Maker Faire when we were too busy to leave our booth). An hour after I posted my Applique Quilting a Map project on Instructables it was a featured project, they want to include it in an e-book they are compiling, and it was also featured on Craftzine.com
There is a lot going on and I am having a great time. I hope this is the tide changing to work in my favor.
For 7 years I have (in some form or another) made things to sell. A couple months ago, after I hit a "I'm just tired of all of it" breakdown of sorts, I decided to change directions and post tutorials on a blog and to sell patterns for download.
When I stopped worrying about making things I thought others would want to buy, I started coming up with things that people want to buy. At 28 years old, I was still trying to figure out who I was as a designer. In 2 weeks of making tutorials instead of products it became crystal clear what my design aesthetic is.
I have not had much luck in the past getting press for the products I created. Now that I am making tutorials of bizarre one-of-a-kind art-like pieces, I am getting almost too much press (too much because I don't have many projects posted yet and I've been very busy lately and not getting new projects posted as quickly as I would like).
I have decided to just ride the wave of people who are supportive and keep giving them what they want.
This brooch was included in a weekly roundup on Craftzine.com:
(I posted how to make this on howdidyoumakethis.com, too)
The people at Instructables have been wonderful to me (they even surprised us with food at Maker Faire when we were too busy to leave our booth). An hour after I posted my Applique Quilting a Map project on Instructables it was a featured project, they want to include it in an e-book they are compiling, and it was also featured on Craftzine.com
There is a lot going on and I am having a great time. I hope this is the tide changing to work in my favor.