Introducing

Butterfly Princess
She is currently available only at ETSY as a chart only.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/93251945/butterfly-princess-cross-stitch-chart

The distribution company that I will eventually go with has asked for at least 12 desings to make a collection of my works. That means a few more months work before Butterfly Princess will be available through them. So that's why I decided to offer it for a limited time at ETSY at a very special price. Once the distrubtion company takes the designs they will be about 30% more expensive.

Now I need to get REALLY busy stitching non stop for the next few months to create this collcetion.
I'll keep you updated on what I come up with.

Thanks for looking.

Whoo Hoo

I've been working hard today (didn't stitch at all yesterday). I've been beading and backstitching, and cross stitching the Butterfly Princess. I probably have a few more days of working on it. But I can already see it's the nicest thing I've designed so far. So ... let's hope the UK magazines will also think it is lovely and buy it.

It's hard that even if they do buy it, I won't be paid, or see it published for about 12 months. Luckily that won't always be the case. As I get better known and when I have the website up and running, I'll be able to release designs as soon as I've finished stitching them.

I think the next 12 months will be the hardest as I only have the designs I completed in the last 6 months of 2011 to rely on for income.  Well, I guess that's the choice I made.

But for now I can just enjoy the beautiful Butterfly Princess.
I can't post pictures of it here, but if you would like to see it finished, leave me a comment and your email, and I'll send you a pic of it.

October Sneak Peak

While 'sun' is still on hold (I'm just not sure it's right for the target audience yet), I've started work on another large project ... Butterfly Princess. I know she is the sort of thing the editors want.

This is just a quick peek at the design in progress. I'll probably stitch her on a green toned hand dyed fabric from stitches and spice that I bought for something special years ago. She has bead work and the fabric has a sparkle to it, so I think she will be lovely.

I think she may take up to 3 months to stitch (though I'm hoping only two), with my current teaching schedule. And I know I will be spending way too much time on her comapred to the amount I will be paid for publication ... however I figured this is a good time to do it, while I have another income and I can still consider my designing as a side line. Next year I won't have the time to indulge myself with this kind of project unless I can sell the pattern online as well as publishing. So I might as well enjoy the process of this one.