Category: What I'm up to

1. Paper patterns now for sale by Sew Curvy

   Posted on 12:00pm Saturday 25th Nov 2017

   I am really happy to report that Sew Curvy are now selling three of my patterns in paper format. I spent a couple of weeks laying them out on A0 - there wasn't a great deal of room on the sheet for instructions as the patterns are pretty complex, so I had to condense the text and be as concise as possible. I keep fretting that there isn't enough information on there, but I'm sure everything is covered. I'm pretty pleased with them - I send the pdf to a UK printer who courier them direct to Julia for packing and distributing. Great to be represented by one of the world's leading corsetry suppliers!

   

2. What corset for you?

   Posted on 12:00pm Saturday 28th Oct 2017

   I've done quite a few designs now so have sorted them into a sort of taxonomy - I woke up dreaming of putting them into a flow chart. So here it is!

   

3. 50 patrons on Patreon

   Posted on 12:00pm Wednesday 25th Oct 2017

   Well I made 50 $5 patrons today! But it's taken me 21 months to get there. It's not easy, convincing people that they need your product (and I'm not great at marketing!). I try and promote the platform on Instagram and Faceboook whenever I publish a new pattern and it might get me one or two new patrons each month. You lose some along the way too - always disappointing, but I do understand that a pattern each month might be too much for some, which is why I keep costs super-low. The cost needs to be unoticeable, not much more than what people would pay for a magazine or a coffee, and not so much that if they don't get around to using the patterns, they don't feel like they are throwing their money away.

   I've just devised a short survey on survey monkey to see how I'm doing. It'll be interesting to ascertain if my patterns are being used, and what improvements could be made. I think I'm the only Patreon offering corset patterns which is good, but if anyone else comes along, I need to be competitive! I'll release the results here when they're in. In the meantime here's a reminder of the designs I've done in those last 21 months;