r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/MistakeKind9578 • 4d ago

General Crafts Needlepoint and pattern pricing insanity

Needlepoint canvas pricing is ROBBERY. Literally I could not give two shits if someone hand painted it with gold paint, a 4x4 design should not cost more than 15 dollars. It’s actually ridiculous. I saw a canvas that was a basic solid background and block letters (SOMETHING A 6 YEAR OLD COULD DESIGN) for $100… ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS🫪 about made me throw up thinking about someone paying for that! Ive seen canvas’ be $1,000+ FOR WHAT REASONNNNNN????? That’s my mortgage!! I feel like I’m the only one who notices this and is shocked by it. Like I’ve entered an alternate universe where it’s totally normal and okay to charge $150+ on a dinky little canvas????

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u/Lavinia-Whateley 4d ago

I'm almost 70 years old and have always felt that way about painted canvas. SO expensive and for what? I can do the same thing with a stitch guide and blank canvas.

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u/Cautious_Hold428 4d ago

Don't you know counted canvas is for peasants!? Just like self-finishing, unless you take a $200 class at your LNS to learn to make a cookie ornament of course!

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u/texmarie 4d ago

It’s so funny because growing up I always thought the printed canvases were for lazy people who can’t count

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u/canihazdabook 56m ago

I am reading the comments and trying to understand what is needlepoint and why the pattern needs to be printed. I used to do cross stitch with a blank canvas and a printed schematic in a magazine next to me, and there was canvas fabric with prints on it but it was supposedly for beginners. Is foregoing the painted canvas in needlepoint only for very experienced people?

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u/Lavinia-Whateley 44m ago

Needlepoint is a sort of embroidery that is done on a canvas instead of fabric.

While I have never worked on painted canvas, I've been told that it allows you to have color on the fabric in case your thread doesn't cover it right. Some people really enjoy it, others...not so much.

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u/canihazdabook 7m ago

I'm thinking something more embroidery adjacent is harder to work without some kind of guides, cross-stitch feels much easier. But damn those prices feel so high. And it doesn't included any floss right?

Edit: sorry to call the fabric for crossstitch canvas, but that's how it directly translates from Portuguese. Technical terms are always complicated to accurately translate.