New year......new approach!
I've made the decision to not run any stitchalongs for the foreseeable future. I'll never say never again but for now stitchalongs are not on the agenda. There are several reasons for this......
One is that over the last two or three years the marketplace has become saturated with stitchalongs! It is the 'in' thing to do now and some have one stitchalong starting before the previous one has finished! As a stitcher myself I know that there are only so many available hours in the day and only so many stitchalongs you can realistically sign up to.
I've also recently experienced blatant plagiarism from another designer and although at first it left me feeling quite upset and of course angry it has prompted me to spend my Christmas break having a good hard think about Little Dove Designs going forward. The website has had a bit of a revamp here and there to hopefully distance myself further from the plagiarist and my packaging has had an overhaul in the last couple of months in light of new EU regs (thanks Brexit!) which you might have already noticed if you've ordered a kit recently.
I've never been one to want to follow the herd and in this marketplace now full of stitchalongs, subscription boxes an all sorts of gimmicks I just don't want to be 'like everyone else'
So I'm going back to basics, back to how I started 18 years ago and just concentrating on producing original cross stitch designs for you which will then be available to you as digital downloads and affordable but quality kits that I really hope can make cross stitch accessible to everyone.
Thank you very much to everyone who has joined in with one of my stitchalongs the last few years. I have always been so astounded when so many of you sign up to something 'unseen' putting your trust in me to have produced a design that you enjoy stitching without seeing it first. Thank you so much!
Faye x