What can we offer you as a Designer?

• Inexpensive advertising in a fun, Festival setting.
• Increased traffic to your business website.
• New customers to experience your designs for the first time.
• The ability to showcase new designs to a global community of stitchers.

How are we different from other online shows?

• Advertising: We advertise in the Gift Of Stitching the first day of the Festival. Its customer base is 4, 200 subscribers.
• Cost: For less than the cost of one trip to the grocery store, you can gain global exposure for your Cross Stitch Designs.
• Designer Only: Our Counted Wishes Yahoo Group during the Festival offers encouragement, help, and friendship to each other.

The Counted Wishes Cross Stitch Festival is held 2 times a year, at this website.

• Spring Showing: Feb. 1-7
• Fall Showing: Aug. 1-7

Effective Jan. 1, 2011, our Festival Requirements are as following:

For Cross Stitch Designers

• Must offer at least 8 of your Designs on your website, blog, or etsy shop. All designs shown must be your own "for sale" patterns (not free ones).
• Cross-Stitch Designers must offer at least 1 new, never before seen release at the Festival. More would be desired, but at least 1 is required. This may be published at your website/blog/etsy address the day the Festival begins.
• Must offer a Show Special.
• Must provide Family-friendly images for the young stitchers we hope will visit. .

Hand-Dyed Fabric Or Floss Dyers, Custom Sewers, or Other Artists:

• Must offer a Show Special.
• Must provide custom Cross Stitch materials that you create yourself (note: no premade or imported goods). This could be hand-sewn Cross Stitch Accessories, Scissor Fobs, Cross Stitch Frames, Custom Wood Accessories, Hand-dyed Fibers or Floss, etc.

• To exhibit in the Counted Wishes Festival, we require that you supply your booth information one month before the show begins. Booth information for the Spring Showing must be in by January 1, and booth information for the Fall Showing must be in by July 1.

 Please refer back to this page between Dec. 1 and Jan. 1 to make your payment for the Feb. 1-7 Festival.

Thank you.

• Each Counted Wishes Festival costs $25.00 to participate.
• The festival fee is non-refundable. Please let us as soon as possible if you will not be able to participate.
• We accept Paypal, Checks, and Money Orders from participants for their exhibiting cost.

• After payment for the Festival, you will be sent information on how to set up your page. Please read it carefully and be sure all information is submitted.
• After payment for the Festival, you will be invited to become a member of the Counted Wishes Yahoo Group. The yahoo group is for participating  Designers/Exhibitors of the Festival only. Respect to others and professionalism are required on the group. Link: Counted Wishes Festival Yahoo Group
• Counted Wishes will host 12 images for you, each no more than 400 pixels wide.
• Vendor Booths will remain visible after the Festival, but Show Specials and prices expire with the Festival.
• PDF Charts, Printed Charts, And Kits are all acceptable in the Festival.
• No financial transactions are handled through the Counted Wishes Festival. Customers will click on a link with your email address to contact you to make payment for charts. We are not responsible for Customer/Designer transactions; however, we reserve the right to reject any exhibitor due to customer complaints that orders were not sent, etc.

Thank you for your visit! We hope that you will consider joining us for the Counted Wishes Festival as we work together to build it.

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