Hi ho off to Ohio we went to interview the talentedIldiko Grisanti about the chart patterns she designs that can be used for cross stitching, knitting, crocheting, beading, quilting and much more! Ildi loves to design charted patterns and has been doing it for most of her life. All Stitches has over 800 patterns to choose from. You will enjoy browsing her shop and are sure to find just the patterns you want.
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My home is in Ohio, where I was born and raised and I have been happily married for 33 years. We have three beautiful grown children, two girls and a boy; and eight Grandchildren; four boys and four girls, ranging from newborn to 11 years of age.My passion for sewing, and cross stitching began when I was 8 years old. Even though I dabble in all kinds of art forms, my strongest passion is designing cross stitch patterns. For more than three decades I was designing patterns and made them as gifts for family, friends and co-workers. Before long, my reputation spread through word of mouth and I had requests for my patterns coming out of the woodwork. I decided to make them available for others to enjoy, starting with craft shows and then the internet. I feel blessed being able to design high quality and unique cross stitch patterns for all ages to enjoy. 
I am a Graphic Artist and also specialize in Customer Service. I am currently unemployed which allows more time for me to enjoy my family as well as reading, bike riding, hiking and walking.Life. I believe that I have been blessed with my creative abilities and I thrive to design and create patterns for others to enjoy patterns that cannot be found elsewhere.God. I firmly believe that we must pay forward our God given talents for others to enjoy. I am grateful to God every day for all He has blessed me with…my Husband, my Children, my Grandchildren…everything!My family, of course. But I also enjoy gardening and building things around the house. 
I really like everything about Zibbet. It’s a wonderful user friendly marketplace where I can display all of my products that can easily be found shoppers. I also really like that I can rearrange my shop items in any order I want, which give shoppers another option of how to view my products.I look forward to the growth of Zibbet and I’m sure many new things will be coming our way. I would really like to have a bulk editing function added as well as the ability to see which items are marked as favorites by others when they are shopping my store. I participate in local area craft shows and distribute my business cards, and I also advertise my website on my car. I have a facebook and pinterest account as well as a website where I have recently added a page of FREE downloadable patterns so that shoppers can check out my quality of workmanship before they buy. It’s made a huge positive impact on buyers, and they love the freebies. I also send a free pattern with each purchase for shoppers to enjoy.
Take good photos of your products and give as much detail as possible about your product while keeping your wording to a minimum. You have about 3 seconds to make a good impression, starting with your photo. You don’t want to overwhelm your shoppers with too much information…just enough! And keep adding new items. Be sure to invite them back to see your new products that will be arriving soon. And make sure that you do add more items constantly to keep them coming back!I would like to become even more productive and much more successful. I want to reach even more fellow cross stitchers worldwide so that everyone can enjoy unique and fun patterns to make.Tags: All Stitches, Featured Zibbeters
