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Designers Who Sell Their Patterns from Their Own Websites
We need a list of established knitwear (or crochet) designers who sell their patterns from their own websites. A wiki-type spreadsheet has been suggested, but I have no idea how to create that.
Meanwhile, how about just posting an entry here as you discover names to add to the list.
And of course, Yumiko Alexander, of whom I spoke earlier in a separate post. Yumiko is still in process of tooling her site to allow direct pattern purchase, but quite a few of her designs are already available direct. She also sells distinctive yarn to accompany most patterns. Sample pattern below:
If we collect a list in this manner, maybe some friendly techie will show us how to assemble the data into a spreadsheet, ideally one that viewers could add to. I'd love to see a real wiki sheet get going. There's nothing like local knowledge!
Bless those who disappoint you; they're leading you toward a better path.
Amore A basic spreadsheet would be easy...we'd just need a place on site to store it so everyone had access. I've started using Airtable and that would also be a great way to save info. I'd love to see a pattern database similar to what is on the other site, but better. It would take a while to populate, but I think we could do it better here. I also wonder if we could take library spreadsheets from a bunch of us, merge them and then upload into a system that populates pattern pages. Of course it would take a group effort to then add links and attributes, etc. The biggest complaint I had about the other was the lack of attributes on so many patterns....people wanted to link to a pattern, but didn't want to take the time to fill out the attributes completely. The search suffered for it. I always thought there could have been a way to force attributes to be added.
Anyway, I'm sure I have more designer sites to add. I'll dig them up out of my bookmarks.
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new-to-me designers in this thread. Thank you!
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