Thursday, March 11, 2010

Patterns in progress

I finally got around to typing up one of my patterns and listed it on Etsy.
I would like to give a big thank you to Christine Percy AKA cpercydesign her suggestions on how to format the patterns were most helpful.
I gave the pattern to a few people to test as had both USA and English versions that need testing.
Christine was the only one that responded, I guess the other "testers" really were just after a free pattern.
I havent spent any time promoting the item yet but have been lucky to have sold two patterns already.
This has encouraged me to type up more patterns and sell.
I have just finished the Elephant pattern.
I included a lot more photo's with this one as it is a little harder to explain the process.
I am surprised at how long it takes me to translate the pattern from my dots and dashes to something that makes sense!
I think selling the patterns will solve the problems of sales of childrens items to USA!
I know we can sell without testing but when I receive requests from there for wholesale items, the sale does not seem to go through , once I advise I am not testing the items.

Selling the pattern makes it easier, I have no problems with someone selling an item which has my appliques added to it , so long as they dont sell the pattern or the actual appliques online.
Back to typing more patterns.

1 comments:

mangocheeks said...

The elephant is one of the most creative pieces i've seen in awhile. Thank you for sharing.