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Jul 16, 2015

This Week’s Episode

I’m continuing my Crochet & Knitting Design & Self-Publishing Mini Series by talking about publishing your pattern. I’ll be exploring six different online marketplaces in depth (Craftfoxes, Craftsy, Etsy, Kollabora, Patternfish, and Ravelry), and will be briefly talking about other...


Jun 20, 2015

This Week’s Episode

I’m continuing my Crochet & Knitting Design & Self-Publishing Mini Series by talking about pricing your pattern. I’ll be exploring the advantages and challenges of offering all of your self-published patterns for free, all for sale, or some combination of free and paid.

The subtitle for...


Jun 12, 2015

This Week’s Episode

I’m continuing my Crochet & Knitting Design & Self-Publishing Mini Series by talking about photographing your pattern. I’ll be focusing on 3 topics: the photographer, the model (or backgrounds/props for non-wearables), and tutorials.

Let’s talk about the photographer!

As the online world has...


Jun 6, 2015

This Week’s Episode

I’m continuing my Crochet & Knitting Design & Self-Publishing Mini Series by talking about polishing your pattern through editing and formatting.

If you’re new to self-publishing, or your current approach to editing isn’t working as you hoped…

You may want to listen to these two earlier...


May 30, 2015

This Week’s Episode

I continue the Crochet & Knitting Design & Self-Publishing Mini Series with a focus on Drafting Your Pattern. In today’s episode, I talk about drafting the written pattern (including pattern grading) and creating the sample.

But first…

I wanted to mention that Dianne from Same DiNamics...