How to sell patterns on ravelry
How to sell crochet patterns on Ravelry
hi guys I am going to just show you guys
how to have a real crochet business
making money crocheting as a full-time
job so um I'm going to show you some
stuff I do go to my pattern section
first thing you do you're like an avid
crochet is you make you know a crochet
pattern so this is like one of my
patterns that I made a messy bun hat you
know you make the pattern and write all
the details and show lots of pictures in
the finished product and then you sell
your pattern so I'm going to go to a
really good website that crochets are
into which is called Ravelry calm and
you create a profile here this is my
name Jess Jessica and then you create a
sellers profile so I've created my
sellers profile so I can sell patterns
onto Ravelry and then I will get paid
into my PayPal account every time
someone buys my pattern so I'm just
going to show you guys how to sell your
pattern on Ravelry and if you already
have made a pattern so you know make
sure you have a pattern already made
photos taken have it saved in a PDF file
on your computer and then you can sell
them all over the place
so before I start with this let me show
you really quick my main source which is
on my Etsy shop this is where I have
been selling patterns already and this
is kind of like my guide that I'm going
to use where I look at my description
and you know have all my information so
it's easy for me to do this on Ravelry
so let me go to Ravelry so you're going
to go to my notebook contributions and
then it says add a pattern to Ravelry
that's what I want to do do it and they
say you know search our patterns make
sure you are adding a duplicate design
you can skip that
skip it and I'm going to type in what
I'm going to sell so I want to sell a
beanie that's what I'm going to name it
beanie and then I type in my designer
name I want people to see my store name
instead of my actual name so I have that
I could select this if I want to do but
I want people to recognize my store name
so then they have you know read the
pattern database requirements basically
they say it has to be crochet or knitted
you can't sell like a graph picture and
sell that so they have all these
different requirements but I've already
read those so then I go to the next step
and then I select the craft it's crochet
it's in US turn which is also written in
my pattern that is u.s. turns at the
very top because people like to see that
then I choose the category it's an
accessory hat beanie or it's okay
I guess I'm probably stay in Canada next
step then when was it first published
well I first made this pattern I think
it was like in April or May and I posted
this first to my SP website so this is
other website right here and I'm just
going to choose this and then type in my
thing that my store is called hot nos
and so originally you have to type in
like the actual URL and then they find
you and everything so I put that in
there next step then it says optional
link to an outside web page so I
actually want to put the exact link to
this pattern so let me go find my
pattern really quick this is why I keep
my Etsy shop open while I'm doing this
this is the crochet pattern it's the
correct one so I'm just going to copy
this URL go back to my page and just
paste it in there
it says can it be viewed or purchased
yes you can purchase it from my Etsy
shop it's a fee so choose the currency I
have mine in dollars and it's six
dollars and if I can't remember I just
go and I check yes well and euros that I
know six dollars next step so select the
attributes that apply this is basically
the way that they do tags as far as I
know and so you want to choose
everything that can perfectly describe
your item let's see coloring for example
I don't have any coloring in my hat it's
just black construction so they have
different like ways that you crochet and
mine is top-down meaning that I crochet
my hat from the top as you know the
crown to the bottom rim rim so what I'm
going to choose it's not worked in the
round so I don't choose that it's it is
one piece I guess so
choose that so I guess the more you
choose the better for you crochet
techniques they have you know different
types of things here in fact mine is
made with closed stitches so I'm going
to choose this I don't want to tell you
guys too much information because then
you're going to know how I made my hat
anyways maybe you make things with
tapestry crochet you could collect that
or surface crochet whatever fabric
characteristics nothing here really a
ribbing technically that grabs my hat
because it is kind of ribbed and it's
textured there's a beautiful texture so
I I choose that and technically I could
choose twisted stitches because you have
to like go over under you know when you
do post stitches but you know I'm not
going to do that whatever then the
garments that's for a garment so that
doesn't you know it's pertain to me then
I have age this is good for an adult
or it's mean and it's definitely female
the fit is fitted even though
technically that's for clothes but maybe
somebody was searched into Ravelry
fitted something and they might find my
hat then you know ethnic styles that
does not pertain to me shape not really
this is not like a basket or anything
and instructions my pattern is a photo
tutorial and also written so this part
is very important next step then it says
which yarns does this pattern call for
I'm going to type in the yarn that I use
which is called Mondial merino
rino special this is what I use this is
a yarn in Italy that I love because I
live in Italy so it's pretty bulky and I
use a size six hook for this
but you can add more hooks that people
can use I would probably add like one
smaller one bigger you know because
people like to play around but for this
pattern that I make I like the J side
next and then you're supposed to type in
the gosh and you know everything like
that but I skip over this because
honestly when I'm buying a pattern I
don't really read this I read this
information when I'm actually doing it
so I include this in my pattern not in
the description it's in English or you
can select other languages so with
Ravelry you are allowed to upload
several versions of the same pattern in
different languages but not as separate
listings as far as I understand
but obviously maybe somebody found your
pattern in English but they speak French
so they would buy the French version or
they would download it and it would be
available in French sizes available so I
offer a tight fit and we fit what I
offer in my sizing and then you write a
description so I'm just going to go
ahead and say this is a pattern or a
beautiful okay now you're supposed to
add pictures of your product so there
are rules you're not allowed to add
pictures that have writing in them
unless you actually upload a picture of
what the pattern looks like itself you
can add that and you're also allowed to
add pictures with a watermark on it but
they just don't want you to add a
picture that has like crochet pattern on
top of it so I'm going to choose my file
and luckily I already have my pictures
of you know this hat going to go right
here and just choose some of my
favourite pictures let me see I love
this one choose upload you can upload
several at the same time but I kind of
like to go through each of them this is
good they say that's the pictures with
people actually wearing the item works
better than pictures just showing an
item because people need to be able to
see you know if it covers the ear or how
it sticks on you relative to everything
else and so they say those work that oh
well crap I just messed up something you
do this again
okay so I have all my pictures here and
if you have a picture with writing they
ask you to not make it the first photo
so but anyway I want my first photo to
be really appealing so I'm going to move
this over a little bit and then you know
that's good enough so you can add
several photos this is good for me in SC
u.s. 5 so I'm happy with 5 I think it's
pretty good next step okay so at the top
you can see they're warnings it says
there's no gauge there's no yardage fix
it well I'm not going to worry about
this right now
I can still publish it so you're just
going to review this and see what it
would look like someone wants to find
your beanie pattern and there's all this
information just check over make sure
it's right and so looks pretty good
I'm going to go ahead and publish this
gutter into Ravelry
okay now I'm going to go to manage store
you notice I never actually uploaded my
PDF file so let's go over here this is
my pattern section in my store and I
have all these patterns I'm going to
click on beanie and add pattern store
and here we have this file and I want to
upload my PDF file so let's go to choose
file need to find my file ok ribbed
beanie pattern this is it - and then you
make sure you click on upload ok so now
I have it here and then you have to
actually activate it so i activate my
product and there we have it now I go to
patterns and I just check and there it
is so now I'm just going to go back to
my is eShop and so this is how I do this
i sell my patterns on etsy and I sell
I'm trying to sell them now on Ravelry
because I realized that a lot of people
may not know about Etsy or maybe they
just like prefer Ravelry so I have an
option on my Ravelry shop that they can
either purchase it on Ravelry or they
can click over and buy it on Etsy so
whichever platform they prefer and so
that's what I do for my crochet business
and obviously I actually sell crochet
items as well but you know what that's
really time-consuming and so my coach
she advises me to sell patterns because
it's passive income and you could just
basically make something one time and
sell it forever and make money while you
sleep so selling patterns is a really
smart thing to do you don't have to
worry about inventory you don't have to
worry about constant
buying supplies and having them all over
your house and your cat getting into it
and stuff so selling patterns is the way
to go and then I wanted to show you
something else I do for my crochet
business I host these workshops and
locally where I live and so what I do is
I go to this website to create these
photos that look really professional I
did not take that photo I bought it from
someone else who already took it for me
and I just you know edited things on
here made it look really professional
and then I use this photo to publicize
all over social media that I'm hosting a
workshop and people can comment below
blah blah blah so let me show you the
website I use for that you probably have
heard of it maybe not called canva so in
canva you can just find all types of
things like basically it shows you
things I've already done here
I bought this picture and then I typed
on top of it for a crochet workshop and
actually sometimes I use this coffee
photo as like a interesting strategy to
host a workshop because people see
coffee and it automatically is addicting
and they don't even realize what it's
what I'm talking about on here and they
click on it because it's coffee so
that's interesting but anyway so this is
something I do for my crochet business
you can use canvas to create all these
interesting photos and then you can like
put them on your blog or put them on
through email or whatever and they look
really professional you don't have to be
a photographer you don't have to know
how to do this it's already done for you
and so you can buy these or they have a
lot of free versions there are so many
websites where you can buy images like
those so that's something I do and then
I use another website called event write
and type this in is that brave right yes
Eventbrite
Eventbrite is a website where you can
organize an event and post a link to it
so people can sign up through the
internet so you know I have an event
here let me let me search it real quick
so this is an event that I created
through the website is so easy you just
spill on all the blinds and set a date
set a price and then people just click
and sign up and then they pay you
through PayPal and that's it and if
someone cancels you can easily refund
them it's just really awesome so you
don't actually have to do this
physically by hand and have people pay
you in cash when they get there you can
do this ahead of time which ensures that
people will come to your workshop and
that you have your expenses paid for in
advance instead of forking out the time
and money to prepare for this croche day
and then no one actually shows up so
this is another website that I use for
my crochet business so I hope that you
guys enjoyed this little video I'm doing
this because I posted a post like a few
months ago about my crochet business and
people were so shocked that you can
actually crochet at home and make money
from it and so I'm hoping that this will
help someone who is like dominant out
and wants to do this from home you can
do it is you just have to be really
creative and you sometimes people just
need to know what's available so these
are some things that are available to
you and and yeah thanks for watching
