Cuboidal and the Community Pattern Fund

With the release of the new Cuboidal collection just around the corner, I’m hoping that with your help we can boost the number of free copies available.

If you’re not familiar with my Community Pattern Fund project you can read more about it by clicking through to it’s page, but in short it’s a way for folks to pay it forward and help knitters who can’t stretch to buying a full eBook right now.

The mechanism is fairly simple - a selection of free patterns have been made into eBooks that also include the relevant premium tutorials. All of the content is available for free on this blog, yet by putting it all together in a handy eBook format folks can have the convenience of a PDF whilst also paying it forward by buying CPF credits. The CPF patterns come in a range of price points - full single pattern, 1/3 eBook, 1/2 eBook, full eBook, and so on - and each time one of these is purchased it gets converted to a credit of the same value. When there’s a new release, in particular a new collection, those credits can then be redeemed via exclusive discount codes that go out in The Woolly Hat Society newsletter. It’s all done anonymously because I know what it’s like to not be able to afford stuff.

The CPF patterns can be purchased on Ravelry and Payhip, and you don’t have to buy them for yourself - you can gift them to a friend, too, should you wish.

The credits always get used very quickly, and I hate disappointing folks who get in touch to ask whether there’s a problem with the code - there never is, it’s simply because the credits will all be redeemed within an hour or less. In the latest newsletter I gave folks a heads up so they can look out for it.

Cuboidal is perfect for using up oddments of yarn and leftovers in different weights and gauges, making it suited to tighter budgets. With your help I’d love to be able to offer more CPF copies, so that fewer folks miss out, so I’m going to match any credits purchased between now and release day.

For each copy of the Alata CPF file that's purchased - $23 = 1 eBook credit - I'll donate another copy; for each copy of the BibBob CPF file that's purchased - $12 = ½ eBook credit - I'll match that and make it a full credit. In short, I'll double the amount of credits, in turn doubling the amount of free copies, that are purchased between now and when Cuboidal is published.

Purchase eBook credits:
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/alata-2
https://payhip.com/b/W6sm3

Purchase ½ eBook credits:
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bibbob
https://payhip.com/b/8I90Q

If you’re able to help, it’s very much appreciated - thank you!

The layout is done, we’re just making final tweaks to optimise it’s readability and usability. My two tech editors have started doing their final edits and once they sign off, we’ll be ready! I’m expecting that to be next week now, and I’ll be sending out a newsletter with a member-exclusive discount and details of how many free copies have been made available via the CPF scheme. If you’re not a member yet you might wanna join now!

It’s getting exciting, I can’t wait to hear what you think of the book and what projects you make from the patterns.