I haven't updated here in about a month. I haven't had much to post about though. I think I'm still a bit burnt out after all the summer sewing I did. The weather hasn't been great either. Even though it's warm inside my workshop I don't always feel like trekking through the rain or cold to get there. I'm actually thinking about bringing my sewing machine inside to make a new batch of cloth pads. I still haven't finished the sweatshirts I started, mainly because it involves re-threading the overlocker and I don't like doing that! I need to make an effort though because it's sweatshirt weather now.
I uploaded a few things to my shop earlier this week. It's always disappointing when you upload new stuff and it gets zero views. It might be that it takes a bit of time for the items to make it into the search results or something. I also uploaded some more cloth pads about two weeks ago. I've been selling a few things here and there, but overall, things seem quiet on Etsy. Views and visits are low. I really should do some advertising.
Hyenacart has been a complete bust for me. I haven't had a single order through there. I wondered about trying it for another month and maybe uploading some more things but I already paid $7.50 for last month, so I could end up throwing away $15 for nothing. I'd need to sell at least a couple of items just to get that money back. I can leave my shop sitting there though and I'm pretty sure people can still buy things, even if I haven't paid the fee. I think I have to pay $7.50 just to be able to log into my seller portal again but if someone buys something and pays through Paypal I should be able to get all their details from there. Apparently items time out after a couple of months if you're not active. My only worry is that if I sold something on Etsy that I already had listed there then I'd have to pay $7.50 to go in and delete it on Hyenacart. I'm not sure what to do yet.
Hyenacart doesn't give you any stats to look at like Etsy does. I think you can install third party stat counters on there but I didn't. I was able to see that two people (or maybe just one person) have marked two of my items as favourites though. Lots of people favourite things on Etsy but I notice that if someone favourites something, they rarely come back and buy it. But someone favourited something a few days ago and then came back and bought it yesterday! I think this is probably the first time this has happened to me! People seem to use favourites as a Pinterest kind of thing, like a collection of pictures of things you like. If I used Etsy to favourite things, it would probably be things I liked the look of that I thought I could sew or make myself...
These are the things I've uploaded recently.
A wolf embroidered pocket nappy. I wish I'd used a darker shade of grey for the wolf though.
Unicorn embroidered pocket nappy with two colours of PUL stitched together. I quite like the way that looks. I imagine this unicorn embroidery would look great on white too.
I'm selling this as a slight second because the embroidery isn't quite perfect. It's a pocket nappy. I don't think this type of densely embroidered design is very good for nappies because it makes them quite stiff.
Another pocket nappy. I love this design!
This is one of the AIOs I made.
Another AIO. I do like the way the black and white snaps look on this.
This is the inside, which we probably shouldn't talk about since it was so much of a nightmare to sew!
I uploaded a few things to my shop earlier this week. It's always disappointing when you upload new stuff and it gets zero views. It might be that it takes a bit of time for the items to make it into the search results or something. I also uploaded some more cloth pads about two weeks ago. I've been selling a few things here and there, but overall, things seem quiet on Etsy. Views and visits are low. I really should do some advertising.
Hyenacart has been a complete bust for me. I haven't had a single order through there. I wondered about trying it for another month and maybe uploading some more things but I already paid $7.50 for last month, so I could end up throwing away $15 for nothing. I'd need to sell at least a couple of items just to get that money back. I can leave my shop sitting there though and I'm pretty sure people can still buy things, even if I haven't paid the fee. I think I have to pay $7.50 just to be able to log into my seller portal again but if someone buys something and pays through Paypal I should be able to get all their details from there. Apparently items time out after a couple of months if you're not active. My only worry is that if I sold something on Etsy that I already had listed there then I'd have to pay $7.50 to go in and delete it on Hyenacart. I'm not sure what to do yet.
Hyenacart doesn't give you any stats to look at like Etsy does. I think you can install third party stat counters on there but I didn't. I was able to see that two people (or maybe just one person) have marked two of my items as favourites though. Lots of people favourite things on Etsy but I notice that if someone favourites something, they rarely come back and buy it. But someone favourited something a few days ago and then came back and bought it yesterday! I think this is probably the first time this has happened to me! People seem to use favourites as a Pinterest kind of thing, like a collection of pictures of things you like. If I used Etsy to favourite things, it would probably be things I liked the look of that I thought I could sew or make myself...
These are the things I've uploaded recently.
A wolf embroidered pocket nappy. I wish I'd used a darker shade of grey for the wolf though.
Unicorn embroidered pocket nappy with two colours of PUL stitched together. I quite like the way that looks. I imagine this unicorn embroidery would look great on white too.
I'm selling this as a slight second because the embroidery isn't quite perfect. It's a pocket nappy. I don't think this type of densely embroidered design is very good for nappies because it makes them quite stiff.
Another pocket nappy. I love this design!
This is one of the AIOs I made.
Another AIO. I do like the way the black and white snaps look on this.
This is the inside, which we probably shouldn't talk about since it was so much of a nightmare to sew!
I said I wouldn't buy any new fabric till I'd finished what I'd started (and sold it all) but the place I got my flannel from was having a 10% off sale, so I bought some more so that I could finish the cloth pads I have already cut out. It's the toppers I've cut out, so I needed the solid coloured flannel for the wing parts. At least I know that those sell, unlike nappies, which are very slow sellers. I have a different type of cloth pad pattern that I'm planning to try out too. It needs some modifications first though.
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