Hooked for Life Publishing, LLC
Crochet and Knit designs
by Mary Beth Temple and friends
Classes!
Designing for Print Publication
Class Cost: $30.00 – three-week online class
Knitters and Crocheters both welcome
Description: A lot of crafters want to be designers. How cool would it be to be paid for doing something you love? A lot of those aspiring designers have a zillion ideas in their heads and don’t much care about the business side of things – they are looking for some extra yarn money or to pay the light bill, not a full time income. They submit a design or two, maybe sell one but maybe not, and either get distressed by the rejection, or distressed because when all is said and done, the process took a lot longer and was a lot more complicated than they expected.
This class is about the business of being a professional crochet or knit designer. Even if you sell only one design you are a professional – you are doing your art for money rather than for love. And even if you don’t want to do this full time, the more business-like you are throughout the entire process of getting a design into publication, the happier your editors will be (and then the more likely to want to work with you again and again) and the happier YOU will be because you will have a clear-eyed set of expectations about what will and won’t happen.
This class is not designed to teach you how to come up with and create knit and crochet designs. This class will teach you how to take your original design and package a submission professionally for the best chance it will be accepted for publication. As a designer, you will continually have to seek out new sources of information and be very self-sufficient. Mary Beth will give you lots of useful information and tips, as well as hands-on help if you need it, but one of the goals of this course is for students to become proficient at discovering how to locate some of this information on their own. Expect to do a little detective work!
For this class, students should be prepared to focus on one design, and we will go through the submission process step by step. By the end of week three, each student should have a submission in review somewhere!
Prerequisites: You must be serious about developing designs for publication. You will actually create a complete design proposal and submit it for publication during the course of this class. You may create a new design or use a design on which you're already working. You may find the class easier if you have at least a general concept of the design you want to use prior to the beginning of class. The more design work you've completed prior to class, the easier and more useful you will find the class.
First lesson posted - May 8, 2009. We will be using a special Yahoo Group for this section - it will be available for a total of four weeks, after which time you will be invited to the special 'class grads only' forum found below.
If you need any further information, please contact me at MaryBeth@GettingLoopy.com
I wanted to have my former students have somewhere to continue the free exchange of ideas they started in their classrooms once their special sections of the forum were closed, so here we are. This is a private forum for former students - if you don't have a password, you will not be able to access this forum.
April 2, 2009 . More patterns are being added at a pretty good clip! Please feel free to browse what is available by clicking the Home button above.
While you wait for more patterns and classes, you can visit the blog or click below to listen to Getting Loopy! - a weekly 45 minute audio broadcast on crochet and fiber.