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Yes, you can sell what you make from these.

It is the most-asked question in patterns and the most fudged. The answer here is as many as you like, no licence fee, no permission needed and no credit required — though it's always nice. The only thing you cannot do is pass on the pattern file itself.

What's in every pattern

A PDF that prints properly

A4, US Letter and A0 copyshop layers, plus a projector file. Tested on paper rather than assumed to work.

Every size graded properly

Not one size scaled up and down. Each is drafted, and the finished measurements are in a table you can read before buying.

Fabric and quantity, honestly

Yardage for each size with and without a nap, and a note where the amount is genuinely tight.

A link to the errata page

Printed in the file itself, so it works even if you found the pattern somewhere else years later.

Photographs of the hard bits

Not the pretty bits. Three or four steps get close-ups because those are where people stop.

Free updates forever

Corrections, new sizes, a better instruction. You bought the pattern, not one version of it.

Makes by other people alongside the samples. A pattern page whose photographs are all the designer's own is answering the wrong question.
Selling what you make
Sell as many as you like — At markets, in a shop, online, wholesale. There is no number at which this stops being allowed
No licence and no fee — Nothing to apply for and nobody to tell. If a pattern requires that, it is worth asking why
Credit is welcome, not required — "Made from a Thread Craft pattern" is kind and it is not a condition of anything
What you can't do — Share, resell or reprint the pattern file. That is the one line and it is the only one
Teaching from it — Yes, if every student has their own copy. Group rates exist for exactly this — ask rather than photocopying
Why it's this generous — Because a pattern that can't be used for a living is a hobby purchase, and most people buying these are trying to make a living
Skill level, written in verbs
"Intermediate" tells you nothing. Every pattern here lists what you need to be able to DO, and what it will teach you along the way.
What you need to be able to do — Named as actions — sew a curved seam, read a schematic, decrease evenly. If you can do those, you can make it
What it will teach you — Also named. A pattern that stretches you by one technique is the best kind and it should say which one
What it assumes — Nothing about equipment beyond what's listed. No pattern here needs a machine most people don't have
How long it takes — In hours of actual work, not in evenings. Evenings vary and hours don't
Where people get stuck — Named, with a photograph. Roughly the same two steps for everybody, and knowing that in advance halves them
If it's too hard — Say so and you'll be talked through it, or refunded. Neither of those has ever been a difficult conversation
Every pattern has a public errata page
It's linked inside the file — So it still works if you found the pattern years later, from somebody else, on a computer you've since replaced
Corrections go up within a day — Not at the next revision. A person halfway through a sleeve cannot wait for a quarterly update
The file updates free — Forever, at the same download link. You bought the pattern rather than one version of it
You get an email — If a correction affects something you own. Only for that — the list is not used for anything else
How many there have been — Eleven across nine patterns. A designer claiming none has either three patterns or a short memory
Found one? — Tell me and it goes up the same day with your name on it, unless you'd rather it didn't
Substituting, and the square everybody skips
You can substitute — Almost always. What decides it is not the label on the ball or the bolt, it is one measurement
Make the tension square — Everybody skips it, and the person whose jumper came out wrong is always the person who skipped it
Make it big — At least 15cm, and wash and dry it the way you'll wash the finished thing. Half of tension problems are laundry problems
Then do the arithmetic — If your square is wider than the pattern's, go down a size or a needle. That is the whole calculation and it takes a minute
For woven fabric — Weight and drape matter more than fibre. A stiff linen and a soft one behave like different patterns
If you're not sure — Send a photograph of the square with a ruler on it. That question is answered free and it is asked constantly
Patterns and pieces

The everyday smock — pattern

$14

PDF · sizes 6–28 · A4, Letter, A0 and projector

See this pattern

Two-colour blanket — pattern

$9

PDF · one size · written and charted

See this pattern

Naturally dyed scarf

$95

Handwoven · madder and weld · one of a small run

Enquire about this
Patterns download immediately; finished pieces are made in small runs and are naturally dyed, so no two are the same colour. Both link out rather than checking out here.
Ask about a pattern
Sizing, substitutions, a step that isn't working, or whether something is suitable for you at all. All of it is answered free and none of it needs you to have bought anything.

Ask about a pattern

"No" to the tension square is a completely normal answer and it is not a telling-off — it is just the first thing worth checking, and saying so saves an exchange of messages.
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