04/26/2026
This memory popped up today. 3 years ago it was real people stealing designs and falsifying our art, now it's AI. We have to stop accepting this BS.
Cheap S**t Ain't Cool + Cool S**t Ain't Cheap
Maybe I shouldn't take it to heart or take it personally but I have talked to so many Makers within the past year and this is a big struggle that we all have.
Yesterday I shared a post on my personal page by the brand which talked about why you should be supporting local Makers. When you buy from a Maker you are paying them, not some rip-off factory operation from overseas that pays their employees pennies to make stolen designs and claim it as their own on a large scale while also falsifying the idea of authenticity.
I build the majority of my patterns myself and if I don't then I buy my patterns from a reputable Maker and I try to do them justice with what I create from their pattern.
I'm a Maker, I'm an Artist. Nobody else in the world can make s**t like how I make it. Am I the best in the world? Golly, no. But am I me and does that shine through in my work? Golly, I best hope it does. So when you buy from me or buy from a Maker you are buying something genuine, something thought about, something likely ripped apart at least once because of one little imperfect that we build back better, stronger and more beautiful than before because we can't stand the thought of something leaving our shop that ain't gonna be perfect. We put our hearts into it and we put all our brains into it too.
So when you come to us because you like what we do, let us do what we do. Let us be artists, let us make you something that's so unique that nobody else will ever have something quite like it. Let us engineer something thoughtful and sustainable, you won't regret it.
And don't forget: Cheap S**t Ain't Cool + Cool S**t Ain't Cheap