Go read this and then come back.
It’s no secret that I like self publishing my designs, admittedly I like having the control that self publishing gives me, but it can also be interesting to collaborate and there’s undoubtedly a thrill in seeing my work beautifully photographed alonside the creations of designers I admire. But, if I’m going to put the work into designing something for a publication it has to be worth it from a business point of view. In other words, the direct compensation for the design + the hopefully increased publicity have to be equal to or greater than what I could make from self publishing the design. I’m trying to make a living as a designer, and it’s actually going really well (thank you so much for all of your support!). It’s pretty clear though that that is directly related to the fact that I’ve forced myself to turn down some pretty appealing opportunities because the ‘omg x wants to publish me’ feeling does not pay the bills.
Of course magazines don’t have bottomless pits from which to pay designers and that’s ok. A flat fee payed to a designer for including a design in a single issue of a magazine will never equal what that design could make being sold as an indivual pattern in the long run. Thing is it doesn’t have to. If the original flat fee only covers the right to publish the design in a single issue of a magazine (a period of exculsivity is of course absolutely reasonable – it’s to everyone’s advantage if the designs are new to the readers) then the difference can be made up over the long run. That could mean that the rights revert to the designer who can then self publish the design. Or it could mean that the magazine pays the designer again fairly whenever the design is re-published – by paying another flat fee if it’s inculded in a best of anthology or paying a fair percentage of individual pattern sales to the designer. Or, of course, both. The key thing is that if designers are going to pay their bills they’re not going to do so by signing away all the rights to their designs for the flat fees magazines can pay.
Things are changing in the knit publishing world. There are magazines that do care about their designers. Last year Interweave showed a wonderful willigness to listen to designers when they changed the royalty paid to designers from individual online pattern sales from 10% to a sliding scale. Yarn Forward’s contracts revert the rights to the designer after an exclusivity period and I belief they’re planning on launching an online pattern store and paying fair royalties for that. I’m not sure of the exact details, but I have heard from the editor of the new British magazine The Knitter that they’re willling to negotiate with designers over these issues. Twist Collective was expressly started with the goal of attracting great designers and their best work by offering them a great deal – designers receive a very fair royalty from indivdual pattern sales and the right to re-publish it themselves after an exculsivity period. My personal experience with Twist Collective is that the whole team are fantastic to work with, as I said above I like the control of self publishing, and their respect for designers means that the designer is involved in the whole process, rather than having no involvement between sending off the pattern and seeing the final issue.
Those magazines didn’t create deals that were good for designers because they had to, but because they wanted to, they recognised that it might eventually even be in their own best interests. It’s only 2 issues old but it was clear to me from Kate Gilbert’s very first email to me explaining what they were attempting to do, that Twist Collective was going to attract some wonderful work. Which makes it great for you even if you’re not a designer. I think it’s starting to happen already, but those publications which don’t offer attractive deals to designers simply won’t be able to fill their pages with the designs that knitters want. I say it’s starting to happen because I’ve noticed a shift, established designers are increasingly self publishing and choosing to publish with magazines that offer them respect. But, of course what’s happening now isn’t that other magazines are empty, but that their editors are increasingly looking for new designers to fill their pages. In many ways that is a good thing, there are lots of talented new designers out there who deserve to have their work recognised. Annie’s right though, if there’s a constant supply of new designers so delighted to get published (and believe me I know how that feels, I fight against it all the time) that they’re willing to give up their rights or put aside their legitimate concerns then nothing’s going to change. And in the long run that’s going to be bad for all designers, and for the magazines we love.
Much as I love self publishing, and it’s getting easier to do, I don’t want to see magazines disappear. I think they’re great, and not just for the patterns, the magazines are an important part of the knitting world. Personally I like self publishing, but not every designer does. Not every designer wants to (or can afford) to buy expensive graphic design software and the hardware to run it well (you do not want to know how much I’ve forked out to Apple and Adobe in the last year). Not every designer wants to put the work into laying out patterns, taking photographs, supporting download issues. Not every designer wants to maintain a blog and website and enough of an online presence to ensure that knitters see her designs. I like doing all those things and even I don’t want to exclusively self publish. Publishing a design with a magazine can be a great experience, and of course for those who do self publish it can be good publicity. But we need to recognise that it is not, and should not be worth doing just for the excitement of getting published.
Annie’s post was very timely for me, personally. A few months ago I put aside my general ‘never sign your rights away’ rule in order to be included in a feature about bloggers in Knit 1. For various reasons I’m not exactly sorry I did that, in that situation I realised it was worth giving up the rights to a design that I liked but didn’t envision being wildly popular in exchange for the exposure of the interview. I still think the publicity was worth it, but it’s easy to get from that reasoning to arguing that it’s always worth it, and I think that that’s a problem. Today I got an email offering me the chance to submit a design to Vogue Knitting. I love Vogue Knitting, getting a design published in there would be a huge deal. But I asked whether they were willing to negotiate the rights issue, and when informed that they weren’t I turned down the offer. That wasn’t easy to do, I still find it easy to convince myself that it would be worth it in some way, but it felt wrong as a matter of principle. And literally minutes later I read Annie’s post and I knew I was going to write about this. It doesn’t matter to SoHo (publisher of Vogue Knitting, Knit 1 and Knit Simple) whether I don’t want to design something for them, although clearly they’d like it. It doesn’t matter because they can find someone else. Things are only going to change when that starts to become a problem. And that’s why I’m writing this. I’d love to see one of my designs in Vogue Knitting, but I’d already decided it wasn’t going to happen unless they were willing to negotiate the terms of their contracts. Consequently, like Annie, I have nothing to lose. If writing this means that eventually they do change but don’t want to work with me, well that’s fine, I’ll still consider it a gain if it means that other designers are fairly paid for their work. But speaking up about this does feel scary, and it may seem to many designers that there is something to lose in doing so. The only way things are going to change for everyone is if we stand together.
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I have heard from this issue and find the flat rate paid for designs is ridiculous. I am a supporter of self-publishing. I believe your instict’s right (and your patterns great, by the by..)
Thanks for this exhaustive post. I’d rather not support VK knowing of their attitude.
You are so right and have expressed this better than I’ve ever read anywhere. The lure of established magazine publication is the cache and the publicity. But if the price that a designer has to pay in giving away rights to an original design in perpetuity, how is that fair or in right action? I’m thankful for the internet, where its possible to find wonderful independent designers such as you!
What an interesting post, Ysolda! Just in terms of accessibility, I would far rather buy a pattern directly from a designer than through a magazine. However, I do resent magazines that do not make their patterns accessible online. Now I’ll know to think about why patterns may not be accessible. Thanks for the insightful post.
Dear Ys,
I was reading about this in Twist Collective, nothing new for me. I’m not a VK costumer, I prefer more “alternative” things, personal blogs, Knitty (with the links at the designer’s pages!), Ravelry … all this for me is very enriching. I can tell you that, we, knitters, are very proud of you!
It’s unsurprising, though disappointing, to hear about the state of things. The man is always trying to get it over on the little people, after all. I have only bought a few knitting magazines, and find while I love some of the designs, the way their patterns are written up are almost impossible to follow. I have bought many of your patterns and find them a breeze, but I’ve had many problems with the Knit 1 write-up of the Rapunzel Stockings (and found a few errors–but when I emailed the magazine, they said it could take 3-4 weeks to respond to these kinds of emails). I would always rather purchase a self-published pattern than a magazine, and do so very pleased in knowing that I am supporting the designer as a result. Rest assured that you have very many people who stand in the corner of independent designers and will help out in any way we can.
Hello Ysolda,
I had no idea what was going on at the backstage but when Twist Collective was launched, from what I can read, I felt that this must’ve been something exciting happening! I must say as a knitter, I love your pattern and your work and please keep going with your excellent work and looking forward to read your blog as usual!
I, too, first came to your website after seeing the article in knit.1. I keep adding your patterns to my Ravelry queue because of your talent, and today I will finally get around to deciding which one to purchase and cast on first. Thank you for bringing light to this issue, and keep up the good work!
I only just started reading your blog, but not because of knit 1. I think your patterns are beautiful, and from what I’ve heard from my knitting friends, they’re also very well written.
I must say I commend you for standing up for yourself and saying, “At the end of the day, I need to make money.” I have always found that it’s good to stick to your guns and instincts, and I think you’ll find this too.
Hi Ysolda! I think it’s great that you’re bringing this up on your blog (as I was about Annie’s writing about it on hers). Since the rise of the internet as a commercial enterprise this has been a major problem for content producers vs. distributors – cf. the recent writers’ guild strike. Do you suppose there’s any chance that you and other prominent designers could form some sort of collective bargaining agreement?
thank you for your thoughts on this issue; these are all the same reasons that i don’t pursue traditional publishing opportunities. this is the 21st century, i’m supporting my household, and i just can’t afford to work for very low pay.
when readers tell me i should be in magazines or that i should publish a book, i thank them sincerely for the compliment and explain the sad reality of that scenario; most people are shocked to discover how little designers are paid for publishing (one designer i read wryly joked that the time working on her book was the lowest paid year of her life).
what’s really interesting is that editors often try to persuade us to contribute to books and magazines with the rationalization that they, too, are getting next to nothing for their efforts. i find that incredibly sad, but even more, an incredibly unprofessional and inappropriate line of argument for a business to put forth. “someone” after all, is making money in publishing; making a play for lower rates through sympathy to ensure a corporation maintains a profit is just the best way to get me angry about it!
i’d rather be told that a company “won’t” pay than be told they “can’t” pay.
self-publishing has been the only possible or practical avenue for me to work as a designer.
It’s ok to be scared, it’s a feeling telling you that what you have done here & how you are living by your principles IS brave. I am simply an aspiring designer, and know next to nothing about all the aspects of the publishing world. I DO know my heart skipped a beat when I read the portion about the Vogue request, by I smiled when I saw you had declined. This was the most informative and insightful piece of writing I’ve read (on any topic) for a very long time (and I read a lot). Very well done, Ysolda and Annie
What an interesting discussion. I found Grumperina’s (admirably frank) remarks troubling — knitting design is certainly not everyone’s profession, but still, its remuneration should still be based on the nature of the work, not the personal circumstances of the designer. The only way to achieve that is through designer solidarity, whether design for them is a profession or a hobby or a something inbetween. A principal reason why it is so difficult for knitting design to *be* professionalised (viz Kate G’s point) is precisely because designers do not (unlike, like, say, actors) have an effective mechanism to achieve that solidarity — and so continue to be remunerated in irregular, fractured, and exploitative ways. But Grumperina is right, the situation seems very fluid – the greater community and sense of connection between both knitters and designers has already heralded a sea-change, and perhaps now the magazines we admire and enjoy might find (like Twist and Yarn Forward) ways of responding to this shift in a manner that speaks to that community rather than (as VK) alienating it.
“I still think the publicity was worth it, but it’s easy to get from that reasoning to arguing that it’s always worth it, and I think that that’s a problem.”
True, and the line is fluid for different people in different situations. If only I knew where my line is!
A good decision and I think as the internet becomes more vocal, maybe the magazines will have to listen a bit more. I mean, magazines are great, but knitters are becoming more educated and are realising how things work between designers and publishers and knitters want to reward designers! Plus, the additional flexibility in purchasing self-published patterns is a bonus for knitters. There is a way forward for magazines, but it will mean a change from their end.
Ysolda, I do love independents minds. I prefer independent knitting minds! You made a good decision. With Ravelry and your own website we can always find your work.
I think knitters should boycott VK until they stop their slave wages payments- or we could start a letter writing campaign. In fact, I will write a letter today to VK about this issue and let them know I am not buying until they change their payment plan to designers – and I will tell them I will tell very knitter about this, too.
Just to echo many of the previous comments, I had no idea that this was the case for designers today. I read Annie’s post too and I think you are both being incredibly brave in bringing this to our attention. I’ve bought many knitting magazines and I would otherwise never have known that this was common practice amongst them. Thank goodness that it is now in the public domain and hopefully this will cause these companies to rethink their policies etc especially if they see their sales going down. I’ve visited your website for quite a time now, love your designs and have bought some patterns, recently started to leave comments, and between you and Ravelry a whole new knitting world has opened up for me. Let’s hope it’s only a matter of time before we see a change for the better. Bravo to you.
It’s so exciting how many people have commented on this! Looks like there’s a real, solid chance of change.
When the people unite — change happens!
Thank you for a very insightful, well written entry! I am both a knitter and a scrapbook designer and I’ll definitely be thinking twice before I get sucked into the “I just wanna be published” mentality, at the expense of personal worth.
As a professional musician with more than a passing interest in knitting I had previously wondered what percentages designers got and what rights they had to their hard work after its commercial use. Sadly I’m not surprised at the content of your post – there are some uncanny parallells!
Your instincts are absolutely right. I can honestly say I’ve never bought a knitting magazine mostly because they look incredibly dull, and will continue to buy from the designer as directly as possible.
Thanks for posting this, and thanks for linking to Annie’s post. As others have said, it was extremely eye-opening. As a design consumer, and not really a designer myself, I don’t think this would ever have occurred to me. It really does seem that with the increase in effective self-publishing made possible by the internet, knitting-related print media are in some danger. Not that I think knitting books and magazines ever will or should vanish entirely, but it’s becoming far less necessary and less lucrative of a venture. Alienating one’s base of designers, and by extension one’s base of consumers, is just driving the nail into the coffin. It’s bad business.
I don’t buy much in the way of patterns-on-paper as it is, but I’m now going to deliberately boycott SoHo publications until they change their practices, in addition to researching the practices of other publishing companies. I’ll also spread the word on my blog and to my friends as well. It’s just something that doesn’t occur to people who aren’t actively trying to publish patterns, so thank you for bringing it out into the open!
I know a lot of authors and musicians as well who get a pretty raw deal for their work. We need to start valuing the creative intellects at work as much as we seem to value the intellectual property itself.
Two quotes of good advice I got that cover all industries: 1) Trust your gut instinct 2)The company always has its best interests in mind(which may or may not best your best interest.
I’ve been knitting for a couple of years and I found your patterns from Knitty and love them all. I,like so many others have stated, prefer to support designers by buying the patterns directly from the designers.
It takes courage to stay true to yourself, so “be the change you want to see in the world”.
I think it’s quite criminal what they are doing-I know that they are funding things and have bills and whatnot on their end, but the designers are the talent that allows it all to happen. You all should be getting way more money and respect than you do.
Good for you!!! This needed to be said. Work deserves pay. Fair pay. No matter what type of work you do.
Good for you and Annie standing up and speaking openly about this! It isn’t fair. You are one of my favorite designers and I would never support an organization that would take advantage of your talent without giving you your fair share.
I think it’s awesome that so many folks are speaking up about this and continue to hold that line. I do try to keep this in mind when I am spending my design dollars. Do I buy direct from someone who has gone to all that effort and will reap the most money from that vs. a publication where I know it was likely a flat fee? You bet your ass I’m going to buy direct if I can. Knowing that IK has been working towards a fairer model of compensation has won me back a bit, but I won’t buy another issue of Vogue if I can help it.
Hi Ysolda – couldnt agree more, and I’ve emailed VK to let them know what I think. I’ve also blogged about it too. Good for you. Maybe we should invent a fair trade marque for knit publishers, so that those of us who buy knit designs (whether on-line or in print) can be reassured about the way in which designers are treated.
Good for you standing up for your rights!
I don’t normally buy Vogue knitting but if it contained one of your designs I would – and I am sure lots of other knitters would too. Your stance is a powerful message to the publishers out there.
Good for you!
Paying designers badly is not only a disservice to the designer, but it’s a disservice to knitters everywhere. If designers are able to make a decent living off their wage, then they will grow and develop, bringing original patterns and innovative ideas. But if they’re paid little enough that money worries stifle their creativity, then everybody loses out – and this includes the magazines, even if VK doesn’t realise that yet.
I’m not a designer, and I don’t know a single thing about how Vogue Knitting works – whether their renumeration to designers is the result of an out-of-date business model, or short-sightedness, or what (although I’m pretty sure there’s not an evil mastermind at VK HQ, chuckling with glee at the thought of cheating knit designers). But putting aside questions of fairness, it just can’t be good business practice for VK. They couldn’t maintain standards and reputation by recruiting new designers all the time.
All my respect and support goes to designers who are standing together to say “Respect and value my work.”
Thank you so much for writing about this, Ysolda.
May it encourage designers not to sign they rights away for an insulting 10%.
Designers work hard. Designers have incredibly beautiful creative minds. And because of them knitters have beautiful projects to work on.
I am sure your article and Annie’s article are the start of change.
Well written, lady…
I’m sure you know I am completely behind you and Annie both on this issue. Thanks for posting about it, and may the knitting Goddess bless us both in our efforts to pay the bills with designing knitting patterns.
There’s a similar struggle going on in the visual art/design world. A common occurrence is that people looking for artwork or graphic design, but don’t believe in paying a fair wage for it, will hold design contests. This is where the “prize” is publication or acceptance of one’s work, along with (sometimes, not always) a pittance—usually a couple hundred bucks. Most young or new artists don’t realize that this “prize,” if monetary in nature, is often pennies on the dollar to what the fair price for the work would be in professional circles. The clients that hold these contests insist they’re fair, that they’re a chance for new designers to show their talent. And there are always plenty of entries—the ploy seems to work just fine.
So I find myself constantly writing letters, leaving comments on websites, sending emails, etc., informing these clients that these practices are unethical, and that they basically state that art and design have no value. And if art has no value, then artists have no value. Sure, I probably shoot myself in the foot every time I complain publicly, but taking a stand is the only way to end unfair labor practices.
Nobody would dream of going to a farmer’s market and announcing to all the stall owners that they should each submit a box of vegetables, and whichever one is the tastiest will be paid for! So keep fighting the good fight, Ysolda. As an artist, full-time freelance designer, and knitter myself, I support you. We’re all in this together.
Thanks again, Ysolda — as you know, I’ve written on this already…
http://www.knitgrrl.com/?p=818
and at the very likely risk of being blacklisted for speaking my mind. But I’ve already built my name in this industry — it’s my responsibility to *say something* on behalf of everyone else who is going to come after me. We can hope that by raising the profile of this issue some good will come of it.
By the way, as Ysolda noted, not ALL knitting mags are doing this, the one I edit (Yarn Forward) certainly isn’t!
Mags aren’t the only problem, either. This is why we (a group of self-publishing designers) started Stitch Cooperative to get our patterns directly into the yarn stores so we wouldn’t be paying a distributor more than we pay ourselves. The internet has changed everything, and will continue to do so.
I want to thank all of you who have spoken up on our (designers’) behalf in particular. Many voices = something will change. xo!
Thank you, Ysolda. This type of discussion is invaluable to “dabblers” like myself who wonder if maybe, someday, we might be able to make the leap. Armed with information about our options and with the support of this awesome community, there’s a chance.
Ysolda — you’re doing the right thing. I totally agree! Keep up the good work — there are so many of us who adore your designs. Happy Knitting!
I can’t add anything that you, Annie, Shannon and others haven’t already said more eloquently, I just wanted to chime in with my support.
I have written a letter to Vogue telling them that I agree with you and Annie and that I won’t be buying their magazines (either individual issues, subscriptions, or online patterns) until/unless they change their stance.
I know that me saying that won’t make a difference. Vogue has to think there’s something in it for them to change…but I hope that your post and Annie’s post and the hundreds of comments to both posts will help them realise that they really don’t want this thing to become an issue.
Anyway, I already have the issue of Knit.1 with your stockings in them so I’m happy.
I just want to add that you’re definitely one of my favourite designers and I love being able to support your work by buying from you directly and I’m much happier to do that than to fatten the pockets of big companies like Soho Publishing.
Good luck in your crusade! :)
P.S.- When are you coming back down to London? ;)
I just bought one of your patterns last week, Ysolda after seeing it on Ravelry.
I find that I increasingly prefer the online, self-published model for buying knitting patterns. Why should I hunt down an entire magazine or a book when I know that I only want one pattern? I far prefer to just buy what I want, especially if the designer is getting a much fairer deal. Unless there’s a pattern that I absolutely MUST knit, then a knitting magazine needs to have a LOT of ‘added value’ in terms of articles, interviews and new information for me to be interested in buying it.
As an artist, the way the internet is changing the creative professions has been very much on my mind lately. I am fascinated by how out of date many of the business models of the traditional ‘gatekeepers’ such as publishers, galleries, record companies and distributors are. I think we’re going to see a lot more change in the creative industries and I hope that part of it will be an increased recognition that creative people are professionals who deserve to be paid.
Thanks for speaking up about this. I hope that VK sits up and takes notice. I’m not a subscriber and have never bought a copy but I would almost certainly have been tempted by their online patterns. I pledge not to buy any of the later until the situation improves drastically.
What a well-written, thoughtful and thought-provoking post. I sincerely wish you and other knitwear designers in your position every success in changing this culture of undervaluing your hard work and talents. I love being able to purchase individual designs online as pdfs but I also like to flick through a real magazine so it would be great if more of the conventional magazines could learn from the innovative business practices that have grown thanks to the web. Good luck!
I would have never know all that goes on ‘behind the scenes’… thanks for educating me. I will happily purchase directly from the designers in the future…
Besides, no need for me to recycle the mags afterward.
Great post!!
The one thing I hardly see mentioned (and forgive me if someone already has brought this up in the comments I haven’t read them all) is pattern support.
Not that long ago the publishers were the ones answering most pattern questions. If they couldn’t answer it they would seek the answer from the designer, but would still be the one the knitter was in communication with – not the designer. Now most people can easily find the designer since many have blogs and Ravelry makes it so easy to find us as well. This means people are addressing their questions straight to the designer rather than going through the publisher, which saves lots of man hours for the publisher and pushes those hours back off on the designers. Since most of us also self-publish we can’t tell people to contact the publisher or we’ll be roasted over an open fire for not having good customer service.
When I accept a certain flat fee for a pattern I do so figuring in the likely readership of the publication and the level of experience and how much hand holding I may have to do for a given pattern. When they reprint and market it to another audience my workload suddenly increases, but I get no additional payment. Also, I may not have access to the format that person is working from so I cannot fully address questions because I have no means to double check if there was an error introduced when it was reformatted etc.
Anyway, just another reason that little or no reimbursement for additional publishing is not fair to the designers.
Brava!
Well done for speaking up, Ysolda. I agree with what you and Annie have said. If magazines want to make more profit from designers’ work by finding more avenues for selling them, then they should give them the appropriate remuneration.
I find myself buying printed magazines less and less these days, because I find that independent designers like yourself are consistently producing fresher and more charming designs, in my point of view anyway.
In a lot of ways, I actually like to buy individual patterns directly from designers, especially as pdf downloads.
1. If I am not going to use it now, it takes up virtually no space, as it is stored on the computer which is already there!
2. I love to be able to print it out, use it roughly, write on it, fold it etc, then trash it when I am done, but I can print it again if I loose it, or want to make it again. (I know I can copy the magazine pages, but that is cumbersome.)
3. It is SO much easier to find the pattern that you want in your computer files, rather than searching multiple magazines.
4. This should be first! I like that the individual designer gets all of the profit.
Thanks for a great post.
You have to do what you feel is right for you and really the Vogue contracts sound like they have designers over a barrel…
*Love* your pics of Scotland. Must visit one day.
Ysolda, you SO did the right thing. I buy Vogue Knitting if I feel like it’s worth the investment (at least 3 sweaters that I feel I would definitely make), but lately, I’ve been feeling a bit annoyed, largely because I notice that certain designers are getting 3-4 lack-luster designs published per issue. This seems ludicrous to me. Are there so few knitting designers out there that VK has to publish the same designers over and over? I think it’s an issue of self respect. A lot of what VK has to offer has an air of just being cranked out to fill pages, regardless of whether anyone would ever wear it. And that’s what I mean. VK has the chance to cut a deal with a fresh, young, up & coming designer like yourself, but instead they are sticking with their house stable of designers who that can clank together a few sweaters every 3 months with the help of sample knitters and a technical editor. What you are doing is something so completely differnent. VK is going to go the way of dinosaurs if they don’t start doing something differently. Good luck! Don’t doubt yourself, you did the right thing!
I think it’s a bit like the iTunes model – people are used to just buying a single track if they know that’s the only one they like from the album and the same goes for books and magazines in creative fields like knitting and crochet. Why would I spend £13 on a book or £4/£5 for the sake of one pattern? If there are a few patterns I know I’m definitely going to make then that’s fair enough.
Magazines face a lot of competition from online resources. As self-publishing is now so much easier for designers, they no longer have the same power they used to. A few years ago you would probably have had little choice but to accept their offer in order to put your work out there. Now you have many other options and the magazines need to realise that they can’t get away with paying a pittance to designers any longer.
To be honest, if I want to knit something Ravelry will be my first stop, knitting magazines would probably be the last.
Well said, and I am totally in agreement on this – to the point where I was mulling over subscribing to VK…I shan’t bother now. If their attitude is so unreasonable, I can’t imagine the magazine will be able to maintain it’s quality for very long. I’ll stick to IK, Twist and Ravelry, and self-published designs in future. I’m unlikely to ever come up with anything worthy of publishing, but if a miracle happens I’ll be in the queue to get it on Ravelry! Thank you for bringing this matter up, sadly it doesn’t just affect knit designers, but designers and artists of all kinds. Maybe we knitters can start another revolution :-)
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