Support the Best Crochet Designers: Without Spending a Dime!
Discover 21 easy ways to support your favorite crochet designers without opening your wallet! Support crochet designers for free!
The easiest way to start crocheting is with free, easy crochet patterns. There are many fantastic resources available online via crochet designers, and many of them provide step-by-step instructions and diagrams to help you learn the basic crochet stitches. Once you have mastered the basics, you can start to explore more complex patterns and design ideas.
All of this info can be found for free. However, it takes the designers endless hours of hard work to create written instructions, take and edit photos and videos for us to use. So they need to be compensated. But how, if you’re on a budget?
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That’s where this blog post comes in. Below, I’ll share some tips on how to support your favorite crochet designers without spending a dime. Because even if you can’t afford to buy their patterns, there are still many ways to show your support and help them to continue creating beautiful and inspiring designs for us all.
While we all love those free PDF events and CALs (crochet-a-longs) for expanding our pattern collections, they come at a price to the crochet designers who plan and host them. But there are ways to help these indie designers – even in challenging times. The simple yet effective actions mentioned below, will undoubtedly make your favorite designers feel appreciated and support their businesses, all without reaching into your wallet.
As a side note, all of the suggestions below work for knit designers with their knitting patterns and cross stitch designers – in fact all independent designers and bloggers too.
So, get ready to learn how to support your favorite crochet designers – for free! Whether you can do one or several of these quick ideas, your efforts will be greatly valued by the crochet community. 💜✨
Here are a 21 ideas for supporting your favorite crochet designers.
Please let me know in the comments if you have more!
1. Follow Designers on Social Media Platforms
This is the best way to stay up-to-date on your fave crochet designer’s new projects, sales, and promotions. You can also interact with them personally, which can be exciting! Share their posts and leave comments to show your support and encourage them to keep creating new content.
2. Share Their Patterns on Your Own Social Media Accounts.
This is a great way to help both older and new designers reach a wider audience. You’re exposing them to potential followers that may not learn about them otherwise. And you’re putting your own recommendation behind them. When you share their pattern links, be sure to tag them and use relevant hashtags.
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3. Sign Up for Their Newsletter.
This is a great way to get exclusive discounts and promotions. You’ll also be the first to know about new patterns and next project releases. Did you know it’s important to open as many of the emails sent to you, as you can? The ‘open rate’ is a metric that helps designers understand their audience’s engagement, and the more you engage with their emails, the better they can tailor their content to your preferences.
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4. Leave Reviews on Their Patterns.
This is an easy way to help other crocheters find and enjoy a designer’s crochet patterns. When you leave a review on various platforms, be sure to mention what you liked about the pattern and any tips or suggestions you have. This goes equally for free, guest and paid patterns.
5. Volunteer to Test Their Patterns.
Many crochet designers offer free patterns to their testers. This is a great way to get a sneak peek at their latest designs and provide feedback.
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6. Join Their Ravelry Group or Facebook Group.
You’ll get to connect with other fans of their work, hear about up-and-coming designs and share your own crochet projects with their private community aswell. Remeber you can always share the links to patterns in other facebook groups you’re a part of too! Join my FB group via the link above! 👆
7. Promote Their Work on Your Own Website.
If you have a blog or website, you can write articles or reviews about crochet designers and their patterns. This is a great way to help them reach a wider audience and generate further interest in their work.
8. Participate in Their Giveaways And Contests.
Many crochet designers host giveaways and contests on their social media pages, blogs and websites. Participating in these, is a great way to show your support and have a chance to win some of their products or services too!
9. Attend Their Workshops and Classes.
If you live in the same area as one of your favorite crochet designers, you could attend their workshops and classes. And of course there’s often online crochet classes teaching new crochet techniques and fun projects too. There are many benefits to this, such as growing your own crochet community, up leveling your crochet skill level, learning new skills, meeting your designer-crush and supporting their business – all at the same time!
10. Follow Designer’s on Pinterest.
Save, comment and repin Pinterest Pins, directly from Crochet Designer’s accounts! This interaction perhaps means more to the Pinterest algorithm – and your favorite designer – than you know.
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11. Subscribe to Their Blog Post Feed
You’ll discover new blog posts and free crochet patterns first from your fave crochet pattern designer, as they get sent directly to your inbox! Crochet designers need as much traffic to their blogs each day as possible, to keep ranking on the search engines. So, clicking that all important link from their emails, helps their google cred immensely!
12. Word-Of-Mouth Marketing.
Tell your friends and family about your favorite crochet designers. When you see someone crocheting a beautiful project, ask them about the pattern and the designer. This is the best way to help them spread the word about their work, through you!
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13. Watch Video Tutorials on Youtube
Did you know, that just by clicking through to a video tutorial that’s been painstakingly made by a designer, and then watching it for as long as possible, will likely result in the designer earning some add revenue? This is at no extra cost to you! So, if you have time, please subscribe to designer’s channels and watch the full length of their videos and stitch tutorials they’ve produced. It costs you nothing, but time – and you might pick up a new tip!
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14. Add Patterns to Your Favorites List
If you see a crochet designer pattern that you love, but you’re not ready to buy it yet, consider adding it to your wishlist. This way, you’ll be reminded of it later and you can purchase it when you’re ready.
15. Volunteer a Translation
If you’re a skilled crocheter, you could offer to translate a crochet designer’s pattern into another language. This is a great way to help them reach a wider audience and make their patterns more accessible worldwide.
16. You Have Crochet AND Photography Skills
If you’re both a seasoned crocheter and a photographer, you could offer to take photos of your finished crochet projects, that use their patterns! Gifting a designer your beautiful images – using their pattern – is a great way to help them promote their unique designs, awesome crochet patterns, and attract new customers.
17. Respect the Content
It’s important to never use software to remove ads to print free patterns from blog posts. While it may be tempting, taking advantage of designers in this way can have a significant impact. Free patterns not only drive more traffic to the designer but also contribute to their ad revenue, which, though small, adds up and helps cover essential expenses like website hosting and bills. Remember that content creation requires time, effort, and financial resources, so simply reading from the blog post is a win-win situation: you get the pattern you need, and the designer receives the support they deserve.
18. The Power of Clicks: Supporting Designers’ Website Ranking
Staying on a designer’s blog longer, and actively clicking on links taking you to other pages on the same blog, helps with their google cred too! The search engines begin to see that this website is keeping reader’s interest. Which in turn boosts the designer’s site in search results. Just this simple action by a few people could provide a wonderful knock-on effect for the designer.
19. Supporting Designers with Affiliate Links
When you’re gearing up for your next crochet project and need supplies like Lion Brand Yarn, consider using the designer’s affiliate links. It won’t cost you anything extra, and it’s a simple way to show appreciation for the free content and patterns they provide. By making your purchases through these links, you help the designer earn a small commission, creating a win-win situation for both you and the designer. It’s not a lot of money, but it does add up! So, next time you shop for yarn or supplies, use those affiliate links when you can to spread the love within the crochet community!
20. Free Etsy Listings
Have you been wanting to open your own etsy shop? It’s a great place to sell your finished crochet items. Did you know that you can get 40 free listings by using a special invite link from an already established Etsy store – if you’re new to etsy as a seller? Ask your favorite crochet designer for their invite link (mine is https://etsy.me/3Psi2cY ). Etsy will gift 40 free listings to both you and them!
21. Follow Their Accounts on All of the Platforms
It’s possible to follow your favorite designers on all of the platforms where they share their work. Including their Ravelry Account, Etsy Shop, Flickr and more. Following shows that you care to both the designer themselves and others that might have just stumbled across them.
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Crochet and Knit Designers Appreciate Your Support!
Even if you can’t afford to spend any money, there are still many ways to support your favorite crochet designers. There’s a lot of costs and so much work behind the scenes that you’re possibly not even aware of. By following the tips above, you can help them to grow their business and continue to create amazing patterns for us all.
Supporting crochet designers is important because it helps them to continue creating new patterns and tutorials for us to enjoy. There are many ways to support crochet designers, even if you’re on a budget. By following as many of the 21 above suggestions, you really can help to make a difference in your favorite designer’s career.
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