My Crochet Patterns

These are some answers to queries I have had about the use of my patterns. The information below is given briefly at the bottom of my patterns, but there was a need for it to be explained in more detail.

About Reproducing My Patterns…

The crochet patterns I have created and have posted here on my website will remain free and open for all to use. However I must insist that the patterns are not to be reproduced on any other website, magazine, book, etc.

Once a pattern starts getting reproduced (even with good intentions, such as those who want to translate it), the greater the chance the source will get lost over time, and the greater the chance that someone will try to claim it as their own and sell it. If you are able to help with any translating concerns others might have, I am happy for you to put a comment on the pattern page and provide a link to your email or website where you can offer advice, but I don’t want even translated patterns posted elsewhere.

About Selling Finished Products Made With My Patterns…

As I am providing the patterns for free, you are free to do whatever you like with the finished product. Gift, donate, sell, I don’t mind.

If you are selling the finished products online: I ask that credit is given to my pattern. So you are welcome to sell the bumblebees, flowers, etc that you make on your online store (etsy store, ebay store, etc), but please provide a link to the pattern on each page you sell the product from. This is also fair and honest for your customers. There are plenty out there who may like the finished products, but aren’t adept at crocheting. I would also appreciate a comment on the relevant pattern page giving a link to the online store (etsy, ebay, etc) you plan to sell the items in (do not advertise price etc – I will edit out blatant advertising) because 1) it’s good manners to let me know, and 2) it informs people where they can buy the finished products if they can’t/don’t want to make them.

If you are selling the finished products elsewhere (not on the internet): obviously it would be hard to insist on giving credit if you were selling the finished products at a school/church fete, market, swapmeet, etc, so I do not require credit in those situations. But of course it is good manners to mention where you found the pattern if anyone asks – keep up the free nature of the patterns!

Just a note: I wouldn’t advise selling products based on copyrighted characters (Day of the Tentacle, Dizzy), but that is your choice.

I obviously don’t imagine the patterns being used to make products sold in any huge commercial quanties, just crafty people who want to earn some extra money. And I am all for that!

Final Notes

I do not make any money from my website or patterns. I put in the hard work creating these patterns. I also do not make the products to sell myself (no time or inclination!). Insisting the patterns remain on this website and insisting that credit is given to my patterns if you choose to sell the finished product online are fair requests. I hope you understand these requests!

Keep enjoying the patterns,

Amy

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Singapore Shopping

Okay, so shopping on Orchard Road in Singapore had to be one of my favourite activities in Sinapore   I come from Perth “city” where the shopping experiences are okay, full of franchises, and very repetitive – you will generally see the same stores all throughout the metro area. Orchard Road in Singapore was full of variety, and the malls were big, dry, and airconditioned. Now I can manage the heat in Singapore (I experience much hotter in summer in Perth), but I cannot cope with the humidity – dizziness and headaches even while gulping down water. Thank goodness for the aircon. The shops also kept us dry from all the torrential thunderstorms that happened almost every day of our stay (I enjoy thunderstorms so that was quite fun!).

Books, clothes, accessories, fun stuff, computer and console games (kept the partner happy )…Ahhh it was great fun

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Long Time Lost

Hello All,

It has been quite a loooonnnng time since I have been on here! But in my defense, I have been working, doing my clinical psychology internship, and trying to finish off my masters thesis All I have left to do now is my thesis (there is a light at the end of my university tunnel), so while I can’t get distracted by making posts, I thought I had better leave a note for you all about my absence.

I have not been closely monitoring my site since the start of the year, but I do get approved comments emailed to me so I would like to say a huge thank you for all who have commented (except for the spammers of course). I have been amazed at the number of you who have followed my patterns and created your own amigurumi. They look fantastic! I have worked my way through the comments and posted replies to each of them.

I have done a bit of housecleaning and removed some of my posts I was “meh” on and didn’t feel they contributed much to my website. I am trying to keep the posts more refined to the more useful crochet, photography, and travel posts. Hopefully I will be able to get back to posting some point before the end of the year…I still have a long list of amigurumi patterns I want to create!

Look after yourselves and have fun

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King’s Park

King’s Park has to be one of my favourite places in Perth. It has been such a sunny day today (even in the middle of winter!) that I was dreaming I driving up there. Sadly I am stuck at home doing my thesis. But I did have all these photos I took in November last year that I never shared, so I thought today would be the perfect day for it. Thanks to Wikipedia I just learnt that King’s Park is the “largest inner city park in the world” and is larger than New York’s Central Park. It truly is gorgeous sunning yourself on the hill there while looking over Perth.

Hope you enjoy the photos!

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