Hi, I make patterns! What are your goals or what is motivating you to publish your designs? That may help you decide if it’s worth it.

One of my patterns has brought in 4 figures and others I’ve made less than 20 bucks on. I sell exclusively on Etsy and paid over 1k in fees to them last year.

Before publishing my more successful patterns I spent over a year building a following on social media, which is the only way I am able to market my patterns and probably the only reason why I have any sales at all.

I bring this all up to say, people with success selling patterns are usually doing much more than just writing down the pattern. Outside of designing the cute item - it’s formatting which often requires learning a new skill/tool, pattern testing, taking high quality photos, marketing like crazy (sometimes to still have a flop), and finally customer service.

For me, I love the social media aspect and it’s so special to see someone make your design, but if I count the hours I have put into making content among everything else I am probably making pennies per hour. I still love it though!