Love It Stitch It is a platform and marketplace where cross stitch enthusiasts can create, publish, and sell patterns using an online designer.
Built at Steadfast Collective.
Problem
The product needed to support both creation and commerce. Users had to be able to design cross stitch patterns online, manage their work, and sell finished patterns through a marketplace experience.
That creates a more complex product than a standard e-commerce build. The designer, marketplace, seller workflows, and customer experience all needed to work together.
Role
I worked on the application as part of the Steadfast Collective team, contributing to the product build and the Laravel application behind it.
Stack
Laravel, PHP, Vue.js, Stripe Connect, Stripe Checkout, custom product workflows, marketplace features, and e-commerce functionality.
Implementation highlights
The interesting challenge was the product-specific workflow: giving creators a useful design experience while also supporting the commercial side of selling patterns. That meant thinking beyond basic product records and treating the pattern designer as part of the core application.
The marketplace also needed clear flows for browsing, purchasing, and creator management so the product could serve both sides of the platform.
Payments were handled with Stripe. We used Stripe Connect for the marketplace setup, allowing creators to sell patterns through the platform, and Stripe Checkout for the customer checkout flow.
Outcome
The project became a bespoke marketplace tailored to a specific creative community, with custom workflows that would not have been possible with an off-the-shelf storefront alone.
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