The Dutch Kiwi

Without beating around the bush...YES!! The design challenges are definitely worth it. Even if it can be humbling to see a design you thought would do really well...well flop. There is still so much to gain from joining in the challenges. At the end of this post you will see a table showing all my design entries in order from best to worst performing over the past three years. I have used the placing and total entries for the challenge to give each design a rank. The higher the rank the better the design faired. Similar to a percentage or percentile if a design's rank is 60 it means it scored higher than 60% of all designs. For any fellow math lovers who want the calculations, the top design Serene Soft Green Cream Waves placed 27th out of 1298. So the calculation I used was 100-(27/1298*100) = 97.92. Now moving right along!

Update: There is a new number 1! You can check it out here:  Art Deco Scallops Dots Circles Blue So in the interests of honesty and sharing, here are my top 5 and bottom 5 design challenge entries. With the exception of 5, including the very first as a rather disappointed me deleted them long ago. I have never placed in the top 10 but am proud to have made to top 100 four times...so far! I have a total of 61 design challenge entries over the last three years. So I feel another spreadsheet coming on! The simplest way to decide the rankings would be placings, but I don't think getting 50th out of 100 designs is quite the same as getting 50th out of 1000. So, I will have to crack out the math and give each design a ranking. Luckily as much as I love surface design, I also LOVE math! I have not used the vote counts to decide rankings and I will follow up with a post with a full table of all results. Let's get straight into it! Top 5 Design Placings Why not start with what I am prou...

Does anyone actually make any money on Spoonflower? That was my biggest question when I first started. Not surprisingly, I couldn't really find an answer. There are so many variables but I would still like to see how others are doing, so maybe you are interested too! I started my Spoonflower journey in April 2022, so bang on 3 years ago now. So, I'll break down how my sales progressed over the last three years. Let's go year by year and see how it panned out! All numbers will be in US dollars as that is how Spoonflower pays me. Sorry Kiwi's but having to convert it all will be a pain! Sales in 2022 My first sale came on June 27th a whopping $1.10 for a fat quarter of 'Juicy Bright Orange Slices'.