Silver Seams

The obligatory 2022 beginning-of-year post

Fri, 31 Dec 2021

As past years have indicated, I am pretty incapable of following through well on plans. So Iā€™m not going to plan out the year, just next month.

One of my continuing goals has been to have more ā€œpassive income streamsā€ ā€“ the dragon factory does not pay enough per hour to justify being a full-time job, so I need to also be selling patterns/designs. This doesnā€™t mean Iā€™m going to start charging for the fun little free embroidery designs, or pull the free sewing patterns, it just means Iā€™m going to buckle down and make proper instructions for more complicated ones.

Hereā€™s what I mean: in January, I have a release planned every Friday. The first Friday will be a Spoonflower cut-and-sew French Bulldog, of which I somehow have no pictures from when I designed it, but hereā€™s an embroidery version of one of the early prototypes. The cut-and-sew version is the smiling muzzle, which I donā€™t even have a picture of in embroidery style, and all-white. Itā€™s the same body as the cut-and-sew pug, with a Frenchie tail instead of the pugā€™s cinnamon bun.

The second Friday will be an in-the-hoop passport cover freebie, along the same lines as the Mini Composition Book Cover. Itā€™s stretching the limits of the Janomeā€™s 20cm hoop, so itā€™s going to be limited to 6Ɨ10 Brothers and the like. Sadly, itā€™s a smidge too tall to pull off in the 5Ɨ12 repositionable hoop, just as the mini-comp is too tall to pull off in the 4Ɨ6.75 one that article also talks about. And yes, you can 100% just use Ink/Stitch to resize the SVG for the mini comp cover yourself to fit Moleskine Cahiers, Field Notes, passports, whatever. This is just me doing any trial-and-error for you.

The third Friday will be (and this is the big stretch) putting the beanie-style dragon design up for sale. There will be versions for the 4Ɨ4, 5Ɨ7, and 20cm machines, applique and embroidery eyes, and headknobs and full horns. I donā€™t think at this point Iā€™ll include the old-style short-necked version (as seen in the two smaller sizes here), but if thereā€™s demand I might.

And the fourth Friday will be a freebie, a simple in-the-hoop or conventionally-sewn sea otter. Itā€™s an old design I ran across while organizing the design files, and somehow failed to finish the instructions for and publish.

So thatā€™s a vinyl freebie, a plushie freebie, a Spoonflower fabric, and a pay-for digital design (plus any little ITH freebies I think of throughout the month). Thatā€™s the plan! Letā€™s see how it works outā€¦

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