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Craftsy Launches Pattern Browser App

May 9, 2013 by Sarah White

craftsy appAs its first foray into mobile browsing, Craftsy announced today that it has launched a free app for the iPhone that will allow users to browse — but not buy — knit and crochet patterns.

So far the app is only for knitting and crochet, and users cannot buy patterns directly in the app because Craftsy would have to pay a percentage of sales to Apple. Craftsy does not make any money from pattern sales from its site.

With the app you can search for patterns, add free patterns to your library and mark patterns you’d like to purchase later by adding them to your wish list.

In addition to the app, Craftsy recently went through a redesign that makes it easier to find patterns you want, including a category menu that makes it a lot easier to find patterns of interest to you.

Do you ever shop Craftsy for patterns? I haven’t looked at much there and would love to hear your thoughts if you do.

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Comments

  1. Craftylady says

    May 10, 2013 at 8:29 am

    I have taken a few of their classes and they are great. Well described,good pictures, the teachers take it slow and easy so you have enough time to understand. I recommend them highly.

  2. Pamela North says

    May 10, 2013 at 10:43 pm

    I have bought several patterns from Craftsy and also downloaded several free patterns – all great.

  3. Cam says

    May 13, 2013 at 10:22 am

    Please make this available for android devices, too. Thanks!

  4. Knitting Log says

    June 1, 2013 at 10:40 am

    Well done…again. You efforts putting this blog together was worth the while. Well put Sarah.

Have you read?

Embellish Your Knit Dishcloth with Flowers

One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift. 

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style. 

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills. 

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather. 

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do. 

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall. 

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills. 

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations. 

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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