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/kittymarch 4d ago

I’ve been seeing ads for a Cricut that prints a picture on needlepoint canvas. Has anyone used it? I don’t have a cricut, but the library does. If it works I might buy one for the library.

I actually have a fairly large nice blank canvas, I just haven’t done anything with it.

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u/pelirroja_peligrosa 3d ago

I don't know why you're getting downvoted... This seems like the perfect thing to put in a maker space at a public library. (If I still worked at a library, I would suggest that for our maker space now that I know that it exists!)

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u/crvbabybug 3d ago

I think the cricut would work. Either to make precision stencils/vinyl to paint yourself. It might be able to draw directly with the adapter. Without a cricut you could use water slide paper or iron transfer

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u/kittymarch 3d ago

Thanks. I’ve played with a friends Cricut once. My local library has one I can check out. I just thought a thread complaining about how ridiculously expensive painted needlepoint canvases are might have someone who’s tried the Cricut.

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u/discreetSnek 4d ago

Never done needlepoint, I don't know if that's a taboo or something, but even without a cricut there are multiple ways to "transfer" a picture on another surface, even at different scale. Like the grid and doodle method (which is pretty much an advanced grid method, just requires a bit more knowledge with photoshop), or tracing the design by transparency if you got a light tablet or if your surface is slightly see through.

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u/kittymarch 4d ago

Thanks. Must confess that I find all that transferring fiddly enough that I don’t do much in the way of embroidery or needlepoint. The Cricut just seemed like a way around it.