You’ve braved the world of cross stitch software, made yourself an awesome pattern, and even battled a few problems with stitching, but the time has come; you’ve finished your stitch. You’ve shown your family, you’ve shown your friends, but frankly, they’re sick and tired. So who else do you show it to? The internet.
So what’s the best way?
It really shouldn’t surprise you that social media is one of the first options here. And it really shouldn’t surprise you that Instagram is the most important one. As a primarily image-based sharing platform its craft following is really quite massive, with people regularly getting up to 10,000 followers. What’s even better is the engagement with people is super high.
Other social media
Other social media is pretty much the same as the above, but unlike Instagram, you need to limit the text, limit the hashtags, and you’ll get less of an impact on posts. But, you can post multiple times for more love!
DeviantArt
DeviantArt is similar to a few other things on this list, however as the largest online artist sharing platform, it’s obvious that this is where you want your work. It requires a little more effort to get popularity than social media platforms, but with over 10 million finished pieces on its databases, you’ll be addicted in no time.
Forums
Forums are SUPER at self-promotion. There are loads out there, but big highlights are Craftster, crossstitchforum or more specific sites like SpriteStitch. The great thing about forums is they’re full of your peers, meaning you can get tips, help out others, and of course, promote your work.
We recently went through all the best cross stitch forums so you can find your community.
Personal Website
Now we start getting more technical. There are loads of blogging platforms out there such as wordpress, blogger or tumblr which makes it super easy to create a website. Over time you’ll get more and more people following your site, and can help out the community with awesome posts like this.
How to do it
So now you know where to upload it, is there an easier way? The answer is yes; automation.
If you’re making a website, there are plugins you can get that post to all of these are more. And if you’re not, you could use a tool like Zapier or IFTTT, which post across all.
Have you got any preferred ways to promote your work? I’d love to hear them in the comments!