"Fuck Hate" Kit & Needle Minder Sale!
Also, a Substack explainer: you DON'T have to pay for our enews
Let’s get right to it, shall we? If there’s anything I hate, it’s hate. Hate of all kinds, but discriminating against people for who they love makes me insane. Why not counter with love and acceptance and some meditative stitching?
Glitter Sticker!
I couldn’t resist these super-glittery stickers, aren’t they nuts? Show us what you do with yours: tag photos/vids with @subversivecrossstitch on Etsy!
Needle Minder Sale
If you're not familiar, needle minders have two magnets that go on either side of your fabric while you're stitching. When you take a break, it keeps your needle handy with its magnetic powers! We have LOTS of them, have you noticed? And new ones coming all the time. So here’s the deal: buy 2 needle minders, get 1 free! Just use promo code NEED3 at checkout. Sale ends Sunday night at midnight PST.
Back in Stock (and we have lots of them now)!
Compact Mirror Kit: These are so cool, should I do more designs?
Dragon Scissors: Finally in stock forever, these guys are so popular!
Subscriptions? Let Me Explain…
I know many of you are new to Substack—me, too! You can read more on my About page about why I chose Substack for our news. I’m also repeating part of it here that I recently rewrote because I feel like I need to clarify what we’re doing and what the subscriptions are all about:
First of all, please don’t feel this is something you have to pay for—you’ll always get my regular newsletters like always. They’ll come right to your inbox with links directly to my website. I think I put too many “subscribe” buttons in my first Substack posts, I was trying to use best practices for Substack. But those aren’t necessarily best practices for us. I want you to always feel welcome and like part of the Subversive family because of COURSE you still are. At the same time, I wanted a place that wasn’t prone to censorship and the whims of tech billionaires. Also, a place where we could set up our own “private” Subversive community without the anonymity and arguments of random haters ruining it. So, IF you want to go to that level, that’s when paid subscriptions come in. Doesn’t interest you? Forget it! Just stay with your free subscription and it’s all good.
Should I upgrade to Paid?
IF you want to move up to a paid subscription, the chart below sums up the benefits I’ve put together for different levels of participation. No matter which level you choose, you will receive our quirky newsletter directly to your inbox before anyone else knows what’s new—early sale previews and bragging rights!
A paid subscription makes you a full-fledged member and supports my small, woman-owned business. As a paid subscriber, you’ll receive a free PDF pattern every month, you’ll be able to comment and give feedback, participate in discussions, be eligible for giveaways and have access to archives. You’ll be a member of the only bonafide Subversive Cross Stitch community and supporting me at the same time.
What does that look like in reality?
One of our founding members just asked about a long-forgotten thing we sold: I found a couple of them and mailed them to her for free.
The first month I messed up, so subscribers got 3 free PDFs instead of one.
I had a giveaway of three Stitch, Plz journals for subscribers and, on top of that, decided to also send one to each of my Founding Member subscribers.
Just little things like that. Subscriptions help to fuel acts of kindness and nothing makes me feel better than doing something unexpected for someone. I’m in this to have FUN (and also make a living, of course). So that’s the deal with subscriptions. Thank you for hanging with me through this transition.
If you’d like to explore paid subscriptions and peruse the benefits, here’s a button.
That’s it for this week. As always, thank you for subscribing! If you’re somewhere in bad weather or 100-degree days or horrible forest fire smoke, remember to stay inside and STITCH! It’s good for the soul!
xoxo, Julie
p.s. I stitched this portrait of the head honcho at Fred on one of our Stitch, Plz journals as a token of my appreciation for the collab! Video on Instagram.
