Life’s Tricky Situations

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My sister-in-law has a collection of more than 2000 vintage cross stitch patterns.  She stores them in a small room but now that her son needs the room, she needed to de-clutter.  But dumping the old patterns was not an option.  She wanted them to go to someone who would love them as much as she did.  She tried selling them at a flea market, but people were not interested and those who were only wanted to pay a dime.

She knew that there were other crafters out there who would love to have the patterns, she just had to find them.  That’s when I suggested putting up a blog to showcase her vintage patterns and start selling her collection online.  She started with a free blog and later on switched to her own domain and got her own  ecommerce web hosting.  Over several months, she netted more than a thousand dollars, way more than she did selling at flea markets.  She went from selling a handful of patterns a month to more than five a day.  Now she is not only concentrating on selling patterns, some of her customers are even requesting her to sell other cross stitch materials and finished products as well.