Cape Cod Stitchery...if it can be made out of yarn, you can find something here!
I've had an account with Etsy since 2011 but I didn't start selling until October of 2015.
Considering that I don't have children, it's quite ironic that I design baby blankets. I've been a knitter since I was a child but I've become fairly good at it. I started making baby blankets, for co-workers, about 5 years ago (I've given away about 110 so far), but due to the fact that I've never created anything from a pattern, I knitted, or crocheted, blankets that I thought looked nice. One of those co-workers, a highly professional and amazing lady, had just given birth to her second son. When I gave her the baby blanket, which was an incredibly beautiful (but simple) to make, so proclaimed that she could never do that herself. I made her a bet that I could draw up a pattern, teach her some basic knitting techniques, and she could do it. Within a month, she made a blanket of her own. She came back and said that I should make patterns and sell them because I had made a pattern so simple that even she could do it. Since I basically do a form of graphics design professionally, it sounded like a valid option. That's when I stumbled on the feature on Etsy for selling digital downloads...*light bulb*! After extensive research, along with trial and error, I created a marketable and professional pattern that I wouldn't be embarrassed to sell.
The name "Cape Cod Stitchery" wasn't as hard to come up with; "Cape Cod" is because I live on Cape Cod and "Stitchery" is because I thought it sounded "New England-y"...thus Cape Cod Stitchery was born!
I've had relative success at it, and have gotten high praise for the patterns I produce. I keep doing it because I love to knit and I'm still astonished that I'm able to make money at it. Isn't the internet awesome? Thank you, Etsy!
