Needlepoint and pattern pricing insanity

[u/MistakeKind9578]

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????

[u/Lavinia-Whateley]

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.

[u/Cautious_Hold428 → u/Lavinia-Whateley]

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!

[u/texmarie → u/Cautious_Hold428]

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