Thank you for your interest in contributing to Inside Crochet
Inside Crochet is looking for all types of crocheted projects, spanning all seasons–garments, accessories, home, men, babies and children with heavy emphasis on women’s garments. We need essays that explore history, technique, fibre production, and designers from around the world. We emphasize natural fibre and sustainably sourced materials as much as possible.
We’re also looking to break ground in our pattern writing by putting an emphasis on charts and schematics, as well as clean, streamlined and easy-to-understand crochet instructions.
What can you submit?
Anything you like. We are interested in designs, patterns, articles and essays that have not been previously published in magazines, blogs, or websites.
For design submissions, please e-mail sketches and swatches for your ideas to clairem@kalmedia.co.uk. You can include a mood board or inspirational images if you use them as we are also looking for material for our designer inspiration pages. Tell us what yarn you envisioned using, but understand that it may have to change. We need a short 1-paragraph narrative about your design, i.e. who do you imagine wearing it or using it? How and why? This is the time for creative thinking–pull out those sketches you’ve been dreaming about, but haven’t had a place to submit. We’re looking for innovative, fashionable ideas that don’t necessarily have to be your standard crochet fare. If you’ve designed before, we’d like to hear a little more about your work; please provide links or photos of your previous designs.
For essay submissions, we are interested in anything having to do with crochet or fibre, i.e. the history of crochet or yarn production, technical pieces, and profiles of designers or local farms. Please send a 1-2 paragraph pitch for your essay; if we’re interested, we’ll ask for a more detailed outline. We are interested in both long and short pieces and require high res photos that are relevant to your topic.
All submissions may be emailed to clairem@kalmedia.co.uk.
How many ideas can you submit?
As many as you like.
What happens next?
If we accept your proposal, we will work with you on the design and payment details, and then send you a contract along with our style guide, a quick guide to garment sizing and a due date for the completed projects.
How will you be compensated?
Pay for a project depends on its complexity. You will also retain full copyright of your work, and may re-publish or re-sell as soon as 6 months after the initial publication date of the project.
I’ve had my submissions accepted by magazines but I haven’t had to submit them online. Whats the best way to learn how to submit proposals to your magazine online? Thank you
Hi Barbara
We do accept postal submissions as well, so you can feel free to send your submissions to us if submitting online isn’t for you.
Most commonly, when people submit online/by email they send over a scan or a photo of a swatch, photos of the design (if it’s past ‘idea’ stage), some hand drawn sketches and a bit of blurb about the design, inspiration, anything particularly interesting about it. Pretty much the same things you would include in a posted submission.
Hope that helps and don’t hesitate to get in touch if we can advise you further!
I really suck at drawing, how do I manage a hand drawn sketch?
Cora
Hi Cora,
You could send in a description of your design with a swatch instead? Maybe with links/images to things that have similar aspects to your design idea (shape, neck line, fit) or just notes on where your inspiration was from.
We don’t have to have a sketch if you feel you can’t provide one, but if you do one – please don’t worry about your drawing ability!