Call For Submissions!

All right, my friends, the time has come. My handdyed yarns are beginning to sell (thanks to some of you!) and it's time to start providing some pattern support. So I call upon all of you to pull out your knitting and crochet genius and submit some design ideas. And please pass this around to anyone you think might be interested. I'm looking for all levels of difficulty, though I want to make sure I have plenty of relatively easy things and especially plenty of small projects. Anything goes except boring! Stuff for big people, little people, or animals, household things, toys, anatomical objects, elegant or goofy, vintage or ultra modern. Be bold! **I'm especially interested in mediaeval and renaissance themed projects.**

Please include in your submission
- a sketch
- a swatch in a comparable yarn showing salient details of the design
- a description explaining construction and how various elements such as edging, etc will be handled
- a list of previous publications or, if you haven't been published, a picture of ssomething you've made and a pattern writing sample
- please have mercy on a primitive dial-up user and shrink your pictures!

If you're not sure how a submission should look, check out Veronik Avery's helpful blog entry on the subject.

Payment: as a startup, I can't afford to buy patterns outright yet, so I'll publish them in both our names, yours and mine, and we split sales 50/50. If (when) at some point I'm in a position to buy your pattern, I'll make you an offer.

The yarns for which I need designs are:

Corot: Bulky, think and thin wool, very soft


Undertow: Light worsted weight merino, 4-ply


Dance: Sport weight raw silk with excellent drape


Vivaldi: Very fuzzy mohair, around fingering weight (hard to tell under all that fuzz)


Traveller & Little Traveller: Sport and fingering weight merino superwash sock yarns (and no, sock yarn patterns don't just have to be socks!)


Rembrandt: Laceweight alpaca


Specific stats (gauge, wpi) for all these yarns appear with their listings on my Etsy shop. Send your submissions to gryphon AT sanguinegryphon DOT com. I can't wait to see what you come up with!