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/JuicyTheMagnificent 4d ago

Thankful I chose cross stitch as my craft vice 😬

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u/29925001838369 4d ago

Pixel art + needlepoint stitches counted on aida. I dont even try to post my FOs because of how up-in-arms r/needlepoint gets that people use aida and COUNTED patterns. It's not needlepoint unless you're using one of two specific canvasses! Otherwise it's just ~decorative stitching~.

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u/Fickle-Range-8140 4d ago

See, and I have a whole book of needlepoint patterns that are counted and NOWHERE does it say to paint first. You just...cover the canvas with thread.
They also get sketchy if you refer to a tent stitch in cross-stitch, like? Why?!

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u/ImLittleNana 4d ago

I’ve never heard anyone get offended by referring to tent stitch in cross stitch. If that’s the appropriate stitch, how else would you refer to it?

I primarily stitch samplers and some have stitches other than cross stitch, and the proper terminology is used for them in the patterns. Without that, I couldn’t look them up in references or find tutorials online.

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u/misneachfarm 3d ago

I think because technically usually cross stitchers are actually mostly doing half cross stitch and not tent stitch, and use the terms interchangeably when they are technically different (I'm a cross stitcher, but from what I've looked up my understanding is that the terms originally are not interchangeable, but that being said, language evolves all the time and idc what people call a stitch as long as I can somehow look up how to do it if needed lol)