Why Publish in Knotions?

Many of you know Knotions because you were readers when we first published back in 2008.  Some of you learned about Knotions afterwards because you liked a pattern or a tutorial.  And some are learning about Knotions for the first time.

Regardless, it’s a reasonable question to ask – Why Should I Publish in Knotions?

Here are some of the things that we do when accepting a pattern for publishing:

• Professionally tech edit
  • We check for accuracy (should be 10 instead of 9) and consistency (saying sts everywhere instead of stitches in some places)
• Chart layout
  • If your design has chart(s) we lay them out and confirm that they’re correct and easy to read.  You can submit a photo of a hand-drawn chart.
• Schematic
  • Again, you can submit a hand-drawn schematic.  We’ll take care of laying it out and making it readable.
• Photo editing
  • We take professional photos and share them with you!
  • We’ll crop and zoom in to tell a story with your design.  Send us a good-quality FO and we’ll do the rest.
• Rights are shared after a few months
  • Rights revert to shared after your design is live for 3 months.
• Publicize your design in ads and social media
  • We may choose to feature your design in our marketing campaign.

In addition to what we do for with your pattern when you publish with Knotions, here are a few additional things you get:

• Your design published in a high-quality site and associated with your name.
• The publicity of a launch.
• A preview of the entire issue so you can review what your pattern looks like, give us any final feedback and get a peek of what else is being featured in the issue.
• You get paid for your pattern – Knotions currently pays between 75 and 200 USD for each pattern.
• You can be confident that your pattern will remain live indefinitely.  Even when we stopped publishing new patterns the site remained live.
• We’re still on the first page for many searches in Google. 

If you’re convinced this is a good decision for your business, read our Submission Guide.  And if you’re still undecided, feel free to drop us a line and we can talk through your questions.  As I always say, it’s only good if it’s good for both of us.

Knit smarter!