Looking for Pattern Designers! Here at QuiltWoman.com, we publish, market, and distribute patterns for independent designers.

Considerations  |  Optional Services

Thank you so much for offering this service! I have just reviewed your designer area on the website. I am so impressed! I am doing this with you, not so much for the folding and copying as for your distribution. All my local quilt stores love your patterns! It's very exciting to be able to step right into this without having to wade through all the channels of marketing on my own.

Again, thank you!
Melissa S.

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By bringing many small designers under one roof, we can offer a wide selection (currently over 900 patterns from over 110 designers) to distributors, shops, and retail customers.  We sell our patterns to 18 distributors and catalog companies across the United States (list available upon request).  We also have distributors in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.  We have sales representatives covering most of the United States as well.  We send out over 6,000 patterns per month.

We offer our designers many additional design opportunities throughout the year as we work with many fabric and other companies to create designs to compliment their product lines.  Most of these companies provide free designer samples.

We offer various options for our designers:

Print On Demand

Designers send us their pattern files and we print on demand as the orders come in.  No inventory costs are incurred by the designers, they no longer need to print, fold, stuff, take orders, ship, or track the sales tax.  We pay our designers royalties when we sell the patterns but the designer retains the copyright.

Consignment

Designers send us their self-published patterns and we do the marketing, selling and shipping.  Designers are paid as the patterns are sold.

Downloadable ePatterns

More than 50% of our online orders are for downloadable patterns.  Customers love the instant gratification.  Designers provide the pattern pdfs, we do the rest.

A few things to consider

• We can print pattern sheets of any size.  We will work with you to decide what size is the most practical for your pattern(s).
• We price most new patterns at $9.50 retail unless color in the instructions is desired.  Then the pattern is priced at $10 or higher.

The first step is for you to email us pictures or a link to your website so that we can see your patterns and provide feedback.  You can contact our publishing department at info@quiltwoman.com.  If we are interested, we will ask for one or two patterns to look at for quality.  If we think your patterns would be a good fit for our company, we will email you a contract which should answer most of your questions.

Optional Services for Designers

If the thought of doing the whole design process on your own seems a little daunting, we are here to help. QuiltWoman.com is offering the following additional services to our designers due to many requests for assistance. These services can help us together achieve the best quality patterns as efficiently and quickly as possible. This can translate to increased royalties for you. Please take advantage of any and all of these services as needed for any of your patterns that we have accepted. 

• Testing
• Proofreading and Editing
• Cover Design

If you can think of any other services you’d like to see us provide, let us know…we’re listening!