My First Year Selling Hand Embroidery PDF Patterns on Etsy + How Much I Made | Embroidery Business

Considering making your own hand embroidery PDF patterns to sell? Then this video is for you! In this video I share exactly how much money I made from selling embroidery patterns for a full year as well as what helped spike some of my sales. I hope you find it insightful! -Kylie
*I also totally forgot to mention! I began selling my patterns for $3.90 USD each and over the year bumped them up to $5.90 and $6.90.
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[@katiemiller7428]

Thanks for being so candid and positive! I think it’s key to enjoy the what you’re doing like you said and let the results help inform and guide you. I hope you have a great year ahead with your PDF patterns. I would love to see a video on how you use Pinterest-that feels so overwhelming to me!

[@saintrogersstreet]

For sure, thank you 🤍 & yes! I hope to make an intro walk through video to Pinterest, I had no idea what I was doing when I first started there haha!

[@patriciag1111]

Yes to all!

[@sarahwells2952]

Loved this! Very insightful, especially for someone like me who wants to someday have a little embroidery business too! I’m rooting for you!!

[@saintrogersstreet]

Yay, glad to hear! & thank you 🤍

[@madelync7753]

This was really helpful, thanks for sharing your experience! I especially liked your point about creating your own audience. I'd like to start an Etsy shop to sell both patterns and custom-made hoops like baby names or wedding couple names. I was planning to start a page on Facebook to grow an audience, but I'd never thought of Pinterest, that was really interesting to hear how you used it. Quite honestly too, that's encouraging to hear how much you made off the patterns, it was a more than I would have expected, not less. Maybe I'm just too pessimistic lol. I'm not expecting to make much with mine, I do it because I love it, but maybe I'll get that nice bonus of getting paid for it lol. Subscribed!

[@saintrogersstreet]

Happy to share :) That sounds fun! Glad to hear it was encouraging! I feel like all I ever see on KZbin are these wild videos about making thousands of dollars a month from side hustles and Etsy so I just wanted to share my reality. & for sure, nice to make a little profit doing something you already love!

[@tactileandtrubbs]

Thank you so much. Very helpful. Great to hear you're patterns are doing well.

[@saintrogersstreet]

You're welcome, glad it was helpful :) I'm excited to experiment a bit more and add more to my shop and see how things progress this year and share an update on how it all goes!

[@briannam4672]

All of your patterns are so pretty!

[@saintrogersstreet]

Thank you :)

[@stellajohnson4331]

Wow! I'd never have guessed Pinterest! Great video.💛

[@saintrogersstreet]

Haha ya, thanks! 🤍

[@tranhtheuhangkhoa]

Your video is truly exceptional! Just subscribed to your channel and looking forward to seeing more of your content.

[@saintrogersstreet]

Aw thanks & welcome :) I’m looking forward to making many more embroidery related videos!

[@tranhtheuhangkhoa]

@@saintrogersstreet ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@TaylorFealy]

Thank you for sharing! This is so helpful

[@saintrogersstreet]

You're welcome, glad it was helpful!

[@Violetjade74]

Thank you. You helped me a lot!

[@saintrogersstreet]

Yay! Glad to hear!

[@Sillylittlebecss]

Instead of not talking about your mistakes, it would be helpful if you did! I love learning from other people's mistakes.

[@saintrogersstreet]

Ah ya so true! I did make a video recently called The Story of My Hand Embroidery Etsy Shop and in that video I share a few lessons I learned in my embroidery business journey, but I could probably make a whole separate video dedicated just to mistakes I’ve made as there are plenty more I could add haha!

[@imranimran-iz1zg]

Hi im computer embroidery Designer and your design so good nice

[@saintrogersstreet]

Aw thanks : )

[@SoummamEmbroidery]

good

[@ShaiyaSkyWolf]

Is it necessary to make it PDF format vs jpeg? I'm curious why the standard format seems to be PDF.

[@saintrogersstreet]

I think jpegs are typically used for images while a PDF can include pages of text and images. I always export the pattern image as a jpeg and then when I create the actual PDF file with all the instructions I add my jpeg pattern and scale it to the hoop size the pattern is for to ensure the pattern will print to the correct size to fit the hoop size the pattern is intended for. If I were to just print the jpeg pattern it wouldn’t print to the right size. Hope that helps!

[@pjzsstqureshi5190]

Ma'am I want to buy your ambroidery work please send me your shop link

[@kazifarjanaahmedtur5996]

Where did you get the pattern from???

[@saintrogersstreet]

I made all of these patterns myself : )

[@hiacynthareola5091]

Mine for sale..