The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design


Digital (PDF) (PDF): $16.95
Print + digital: $22.95
Amazon Kindle format (.mobi)1 or iPhone, Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony Reader and other e-reader formats (.epub)2: $14.95
1) You will need to manually load the file onto your Kindle, either via USB cable or by emailing it to your assigned Kindle email address. We plan to offer direct downloads from Amazon after 30 June 2010. Prices may change at that time at Amazon’s discretion.
2) Load the file onto your iPhone or other e-book reader according to the device’s directions. We hope to offer direct downloads for the B&N Nook soon, but prices may change depending on factors currently beyond our control.


The Knitgrrl Guide To Professional Knitwear Design is the first-ever book targeted to designers of all experience levels who want to create, communicate and sell their work professionally to magazines, publishers, consumers and other markets. Written by an industry insider, the Guide takes a comprehensive, unflinching look behind the scenes that no knit or crochet designer can afford to be without. Includes interviews with top designers, editors and professionals who tell it like it is so you can hit the ground running, a guide to responsible social media use, information on distribution, printing, online publishing, book and magazine proposals and much, much more.

254 pages
ISBN 978-0-9792017-1-4

Shannon Okey is a professional knitwear designer, the former editor of Yarn Forward magazine and a frequent contributor and columnist for craft-related TV shows and magazines. She was named one of six “New Guard of Knitting” in Vogue Knitting’s 25th anniversary issue.

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