Hope you are having a good week 
It is still freezing cold here and my cats are both rolling up into balls which is quite sweet.
Today I would like to talk about Magpie Patterns. It’s my new craze right now. It’s an online market place for lovely patterns for knitting, sewing, crochet and embroidery all in one! If you are looking for a nice crafty pattern for your next project, this is the place to go.
From a patternist point of view, this is also a brilliant place because you can sell your own patterns too.
I am a firm believer of equal opportunities. Selling patterns does not always have to be done by an accomplished designer or people with lots of contacts. I believe that everyone should have the opportunity to be noticed and valued for their creativity. That is why I like places like Magpie Pattern, (Etsy, Dawanda, Art Fire etc) where you can really express your creative talent without having to obtain MA and other things. So I thank Amy who is the owner of Magpie Patterns for creating such a cool site! I also enjoy reading her blog to check out the latest patterns in town.
It’s been nearly 2 years since I started creating and selling my own patterns for both knitting and sewing. At the time it was hard for me to find a nice online market place for craft patterns. Now things are slightly easier but I think Magpie Patterns is definitely a blog-able site.
MAGPIE PATTERNS – find and sell loveliest patterns!
TARGET AUDIENCE
It’s always good to sell your items to a target audience. It’s like an inverse proportion: the narrower the target you sell to, the wider the exposure 
Beignet by Colette Patterns
NOTICE AND GET NOTICED
It is still a new site, and that is really good. Why? Because you can find really good stuff easily. If you are a designer, you can get noticed much more prominently.
Frog Prince by Nicole Vos van Avezathe
FEEL GOOD FACTOR
Magpie Patterns is such a lovely website. Image is very important for designers and you would like patterns that you worked so hard on to look the best possible. Having listed my patterns on Magpie Patterns, it really does feel good to be a part of it 
Child's Earflap Hat by Leila and Ben
LOW RISK
The fee structure for Magpie Patterns works slightly differently to other major online handmade market places such as Etsy. You can sell your pattern at your wholesale price or 50% of each sale (this works well especially with PDF patterns), payable each month. This means that there is no listing fee. You get what you sell – very fair.
Daphne and Delilah by Danger Crafts
I think this could become big. If you are interested in submitting your pattern, check out this page. Happy pattern searching and patterning!
P.S. Furry Friday will be posted on Saturday (!). It’s not an interview but a some Furry topic See you on Saturday!
What a fantastic post! Thank you so much for such a thoughtful—and accurate!—description of my shop!
Cheers!
Hi Amy!
I will be sending you new patterns as soon as they are done 
You have a great site there. I think it gives amazing opportunities for many crafters to “archive” the loveliest patterns in the world! Keep up with the great work
Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
x
Kyoko
Yay! Can’t wait to see them!
Happy knitting!
YAY for Furry Friday sort of being back!!
I’ve been missing it so much!!
Hope you had a good week, Kyoko!
Hi Pili!
See you on the weekend!
Yep. Currently I haven’t got people lined up for the FF but thought it would be a real shame not to do it as it is fun. So I thought I might talk about some good Furry issues. May be I could do FF for a season (a bit like a TV series! LOL!).
Hope your week has been good too
x
Kyoko
I’ve never heard of Magpie before, sounds like a great place!
Hi Ruth,
I have been spending so much time browsing all the cute patterns. It seriously made me want to start embroidery!
Hope you have a wonderful weekend. So glad that the snow has melted here
x
Kyoko
Wow, Magpie sounds so interesting, what a great post. I must check it out.
Thanks for sharing.
See you this weekend.
Mary
Hi Mary,
I think you will like the site very much. There are many cute knitting pattern there and the blog is really good
Chat to you soon!
x
Kyoko
WOW… thanks for the shout-out, Kyoko! This is fantastic! You always share the greatest things. Thanks for keeping us in-the-know. Happy Weekend, my friend
) ((HUGS))
Hi Tracy,
Yay! Glad you like it ;D It’s always really interesting to know what’s new and good. Hope you have a great weekend!
x
Kyoko
Off to have a look – thanks for the info