I am so jealous of you all! I want to go to a con so bad! However since many of you have been may I ask you for your insider opinions? I working on a gift for one of my best friends. She is a huge Sailor Jupiter fan (from Sailor Moon). I found a cross stitch pattern of Sailor Jupiter that is 200x300 approximately.
Once all that stitching is done I plan to turn it into a pillow. This endeavor was inspired by the pillow on this link:
Fuu from Raye Earth Pillow It is so pretty!!!
Anyway, my question is this... if I made more anime inspired pillows, wall hangings, ect. that are cross stitched like this do you think they would sell at conventions? Hell, do you think I could sell them on ebay, around town, or period? Have any of you ever seen such at any of the conventions you've been too? If so what kind of prices do you recall?
A friend of mine who lives in Japan says that over there this sort of thing pulls $300-500 for a pillow or wall hanging the size I'm making of this or similar characters. He said certain others and other sizes can fetch up to $1,000 - $5,000 with the most insane one fetching nearly 1 million. (That last one was a "life size" wall hanging of Akira and his motorcycle.)
Well, for now I need to go. The friend I'm making it for is on her way over to hang out and I need to hide it before she sees it. ^_^
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