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so i was waiting for the fridge to stop
working to start filming this video and
then now my neighbors
started fighting or talking i don't know
what they are doing
so apologies for that but i just cannot
just wait forever here until you know
it's 100
calm so if you hear noises in the
background of people talking and
hopefully not screaming
then just yeah don't mind that so
welcome to another talking video and
yeah
i do want to share with you ideas
opinions what i think about and i really
hope that you
enjoy this kind of videos too and in
case you do just give it a thumbs up and
just leave me a comment and i will know
so probably as you have seen also from
the title the topic of this video is
mostly
etsy
i have been on etsy since 2018 actually
since i started
this youtube channel and um yeah i have
been selling their patterns probably a
lot of you here in my channel are also
crochet channels probably that you also
maybe have
a etsy shop
and
yeah i just want to talk about that and
just want to share with you my
experience on etsy and maybe it will
help you and
but i think um
everybody's experience is different uh i
don't think that what went well for me
will go well for you
or
probably
yeah what other things work for other
people doesn't mean that will work for
me so but i am really open to ideas
suggestions and i would really love to
know if some of you are successful on
etsy
and maybe have some strategies or
yeah
you just can drop a comment in the
comment section down below and
i would love to know what you do on your
shop and what makes your shop work
without talking too much
i just want to dive into it and first i
just want to
tell you about my experience on etsy so
since i opened this
youtube channel that i was doing
tutorials over here
and
i was crocheting mostly mozilla's with
the tapestry crochet technique and then
i started to
design these patterns which i did on
easy bits is a
program and
very old program and oh my god to design
a pattern over there
it takes ages
and
i was kind of
working a lot to make these patterns
they were digital patterns so people
just
download them so it is not a physical
item to sell
which is good because you know i don't
have the shipping and all that stuff and
that was good the problem i think was
that i was offering too much
for very little price
so
my patterns are still
priced very low but i am not putting any
more effort on it
because i don't know what i'm gonna do
in the future with um my
shop
so yeah i was kind of following the idea
of
small price
big quantity it doesn't really work for
me because you know um yeah i was kind
of not not so many shops were at that
time that were selling mozilla patterns
or tapestry crochet patterns but there
were also not so many people looking for
them so that was i think another one
main problem that
i was selling of course i was doing
sales which kind of gave me the the
drive at the beginning because when you
do the first sale and you are a
beginner at that you know that is
something huge
uh for you but then as the time passed i
just saw that
um
yeah people were getting
um a full set of four patterns for
four euros or so of course there were
not explanations row by row but to make
those patterns and another thing was
that
suddenly pinterest uh was
blown
and
was there and i found my patterns on
for free you know like people will just
buy the patterns probably
for four euros or three euros or that
was the price
and they will just make a screenshot
they will just post it on their
pinterest page
and that was all my work you know
i was spending hours and hours working
on those patterns and then
just my patterns were for free on
and also i did try of course to
report them to pinterest and also
instagram did the same thing with some
of my videos and stuff i tried to report
them and then yeah my report was not
wasn't going through
they just have so many steps that at the
end you just give up to report a page so
or a picture
which is yeah devastating
so i don't know what i'm gonna do for
the future because i think that my
patterns were
i priced them too low and they were not
because they were so low priced
though those patterns were not important
for people
so
i just want to remind
a new
etsy shop owner maybe if you're seeing
this video
watching this video i just want to tell
you to be careful with your pricing
because if it costs people will be
careful and will take care of it and if
it's cheap
they will discharge it very easy just
you know something
to put it out there
of course i am not a professional
pattern designer whatever that call is
called
because you know i haven't studied in
some school to make these patterns but i
think most of the people who sell these
patterns actually they haven't really
studied
so um
yeah
i did learn by
doing mistakes and then you know i just
did better and better and better
so yeah this is where i am at with my
etsy shop and with my experience on etsy
and etsy was very easy at the beginning
they did not have all these taxes
problems you know and in the last year
they are starting to give me trouble
sorry that's what i
that's how i felt
they are asking for
me to provide some tax information which
they already get taxes from the buyer i
don't understand why they need this
other
tax over it
so it's and i'm just not a business
you know this is just my hobby and
um
i don't know they just
are trying to make everything so
difficult and if i have to do all that i
have a website i can just very easily
put my patterns there and sell it why
would i put them on etsy you know
and um
yeah and i don't even on my website i
don't even have to pay uh to etsy for
payment
for transaction for uploading
uh
for them to keep my patterns over there
you know for everything i do pay a fee
and on my website i don't have to do
that so yeah it's it's kind of it's
becoming kind of complicated right now i
am thinking to take my shop out from
there
but
i haven't decided yet 100 percent
the direction that i'm going to take
with my pattern shop and
what am i going to offer there and what
prices am i going to offer there because
i do
think that
i work very hard to design those
patterns and i think people should
appreciate them and not just use them as
something with no value
um
yeah so
that is what is going on with my etsy
shop and i haven't
uploaded lately there
much
i am still thinking on how am i going to
develop
my shop in the future
maybe i'm just going to take get out of
etsy i would love to know your opinions
your ideas and maybe your experience
with etsy or no etsy maybe you are one
of them that you just sell on your
website and yeah maybe that works
very well so
i would really love to know and hear
from you just leave everything in the
comment section down below and um
yeah
i thought i was going to have a second
shop and i did open a second shop
selling physical items which at the
beginning which were my mozilla bags
that i was doing that was kind of
another disappointment
duh and i turned i closed down the shop
and i don't know if i'm going to do
another shop with physical
items to sell because
yeah i don't know if i have time for
that
so from the last time that we talked and
i showed you my projects what i was
working on
uh was actually this market raffia bag
that probably by now you have already
seen the tutorial i just want to show
you right now um
you know on my hands how they look like
but i did also two other items
which i think they are very cute and
with the same stitch but i haven't write
down the pattern yet and i haven't
filmed because you know there is already
a lot that is left without filming um
but yeah on the meantime i also use the
same stitch as the market bag and i did
two other
items i will show them to you
so first i just want to show you my
market bag uh you probably have seen the
tutorial of this one if you haven't seen
the tutorial you should because this is
a very very beautiful bag and i will
just put it up here and you can just see
it for yourself
so this is in orange and i think it's
very very beautiful and perfect for
summer and i did this in black too
and in black
also it's very beautiful in black i did
put a lining in it i just want to show
it to you that you can use it with a
lining or without lining
is still fine
it's perfect this has no lining and
another difference that the black one
has from the orange one is the side here
there is you know there is a square over
here
and the other one is just just like this
there is a technique to do this one
um
but i wasn't sure that you were
interested so i just showed a very
simple one the very simple market bag
with a like this but
you can do this one
like this too and the difference you can
probably see here
okay so
this was my market bag and yeah i am um
planning to write the full pattern
and i would love to post this on my etsy
shop as a selling pattern
but
i'm not sure
what should i do
you know
so
i am i am very happy with this one i
hope you are happy too if you have seen
the tutorial by now so
that was a project that i already
finished and then yeah the two other
projects the two other small projects
that
i was doing were just this
small cute little purse for a phone
and the same herringbone stitch
with this
here
and then you can put the phone here i
did also a very
very cute lining and also in the back
you can put the card over here you see
like that i am very proud of this
project it turned out very very very
pretty i haven't
done the video tutorial of this one yet
should i
let me know
and
the next one is just this very simple
clutch this one is still a work in
progress
you know very simple i haven't done the
lining yet and i'm planning to close it
with a snap
here
and then maybe
put a decoration on top over here i'm
not very sure this is very very simple
right now
yeah so this was
another project that i already you know
i'm still working on it but it's kind of
finished
okay and
of course now i have to also you know
work a little bit on winter no actually
on autumn i mean
we have autumn first
so there are a few
two projects that i did started from
last year
and i haven't finished them and i think
that probably
i will
finish them for autumn
so i'm just going to show you a little
bit roughly what i was working on and
you know i would love to know your ideas
your opinions um
this is an oversized
sweater so is with the technique
you crochet but it will look like
reading like you have actually needed
and actually this is amazing technique i
love it i'm still experimenting with it
this is
the first sweater that i did
combining these two colors and
let me show you the back
look at the back
it's another you know the back is kind
of another amazing pattern
when you work this
let me show you
i don't
don't mind these ones
um yeah so this is an oversized sweater
and it's kind of heavy and it's for the
time when actually you don't wear a coat
or anything like that is for sweater
weather i don't know if you have heard
this
um where you just put the sweater and
then you go out and it's kind of heavy i
think this is actually size m
i did use it for me which i am a size s
and it's an oversized sweater but i
think
a smaller size of this will be good for
me if i wanted a little bit more fit
and yeah
so i haven't written the pattern for
this and i haven't filmed it
i am planning to do a
white with black stripes
and let me know if you are interested on
this sweater the pattern
should i write but it's a lot of work
that's why this sweater ended up for
this year
such a long time
uh but i did worried a couple of times
and yeah so just let me know would you
be interested on me
making a tutorial
of this sweater let me know and actually
the other project that i was working
since last year
is this bag
it's made with
velvet what is called this chanel baby
light and is very fluffy
you know
this is the vibe for um in the last
year or so for handbags for furniture
for everything is very puffy and i am
going to i did the
two panels
so it's going to be like this and then
it's going to be like a
baguette bag
so this is another
project that
i didn't finish last year but i think it
will turn out in a very very pretty
baguette
fluffy bag
so let me know should i continue this
one
should i film it should i write the
pattern
i think
it will be nice
i think
velvet yarn is still going to be fashion
this year too
so
probably i will go i'm going to continue
with this one yeah
okay so those were my projects for
the coming days weeks months
because you know
sometimes it takes a lot of time to
finish all these projects and to film
these projects and to edit these
projects and to write the pattern for
these projects oh my god it's ah it's a
lot of work
so yeah uh so this was the video the
sit-down video for
this week
i hope you enjoyed it
i hope you liked it i hope it was
informative for you you got some
information out of it and yeah just give
me a thumbs up leave me your comments
your ideas and i will see you on my next
one cheers
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