Pattern Cards & Designer Decks ♡
Pattern Cards ♡ make it easier to discover patterns, see Designer information, and organize a collection around the makers you love. Designer Decks bring together patterns by Designer. This guide explains what works on the website today, what the preview cards mean, and which deck ideas are still being designed.
What is a Pattern Card?
Every Pattern Card has a consistent 5:7 portrait shape. A real published card can show the Designer’s linked public shop, the correct published shop section (or a neutral fallback), a landscape project photograph, title and description, 1–5 skill level, yarn weight and stated yardage when provided, PDF type, and stitch traits. You can explore the detailed information separately without stretching the card face.
Find examples in the Marketplace and browse owned or sample cards in My Pattern Collection ♡. Example photographs illustrate fictional concepts and are not downloadable pattern instructions.
Your collection colors
Not collected, or an explicitly fictional preview.
An eligible published pattern you own, not marked made.
An eligible owned pattern you personally marked made.
These borders are about your personal progress, not rarity, rank, scarcity, Designer quality, or a Craft Proof badge. A silver border requires an active entitlement to the real published digital pattern. Gold additionally requires your own Marked made ♡ action. Saving to a Basket or following a Designer does not turn a card silver or gold. Read more about Pattern Card borders →
What is a Designer Deck?
My Pattern Collection starts on All your cards ♡, using one full-size Pattern Card and one fan. Directly beneath the fan, the horizontal Designer Deck selector begins with All your cards, followed by 5:7 Designer card backs. Use its left and right arrows (or swipe the row on mobile) to browse Designers. Selecting a Designer filters the same fan and full-size card above; selecting All your cards restores the complete view. Published Designer profile photographs appear on backs when available. Following a Designer may let you browse their published cards without owning them; unowned cards stay charcoal, not silver or gold.
Go to Favorite Designers to find and follow published shops. Following Designers and receiving updates explains how follows, optional email consent, and Community Designer Updates stay separate.
What’s next: Designer profile-photo card backs and horizontal deck filtering are available on the website, sharing the single Pattern Card viewer. Permanent numbered Designer Decks, custom graphic back artwork and elaborate animated stacks are still planned—not finished authoring tools. A Designer’s curated storefront collections remain separate from a Member’s collection.
Choose how the Marketplace displays Pattern Cards
The standard Marketplace layout begins with four Pattern Cards per row on desktop. Within Find your next project ♡, use the compact Cards / row control to choose from three to seven. That temporary choice affects the current visit. The restore icon returns to your account’s saved count, or four if no preference was saved.
On a phone, the Marketplace offers Swipe (horizontal cards, the normal starting layout), Grid (two across), and List (larger cards vertically). Use My Account → Settings → Defaults ♡ to save your desktop count and mobile layout for future visits. These browsing preferences do not change the Pattern Card’s 5:7 proportions or your owned-card status.
Fan through My Pattern Collection
On My Pattern Collection, All your cards ♡ is the default view: one large selected Pattern Card, then its fan. The Designer Decks ♡ carousel is immediately below the fan, not another card viewer. Select a Designer’s published profile-photo card back to filter that same fan, use the arrows to scroll through backs, and select All your cards to restore everything. Use the card fan, Previous/Next or keyboard arrows and Home/End to inspect individual cards. Mobile visitors can swipe through both the fan and the deck selector. When no real owned patterns are available, the All view shows fifteen explicitly fictional samples; Marketplace separately has twenty fictional previews. No demonstration creates an entitlement.
Live collection percentages, where available, use published eligible patterns and actual active owned entitlements. The demonstration percentages such as “6 of 12” or “80%” are examples, never measurements of your account.
Yarn Shelf & Yarn Power
You can enter yarn you already have on the private My Yarn Shelf ♡ area of My Pattern Collection. For a published pattern with listed weight and smallest positive version yardage, Yarn Power may report “Likely enough ♡ · check size,” a yardage shortfall, or that the information is incomplete. It never buys, deducts or reserves yarn. Compare fiber, gauge, size and dye lot yourself. See Yarn Shelf and Yarn Power instructions →
For Designers
A Designer preparing a pattern can use the private Designer Studio Pattern Cards preview to check photos, skill level, yarn requirements, details and presentation. Its Default/Purchased/Completed border swatches are visual examples only; they cannot change a buyer’s ownership or mark a pattern made. Designers can organize a limited number of public storefront sections when approved, but permanent numbered Designer Deck authoring is a future feature. See the Designer guide →
Common questions
Can I collect a fictional preview card?
No. Demos exist so you can explore the design and controls. They do not contain real pattern files, paid orders, verified Designer accounts or ownership.
Does following a Designer give me that Designer’s cards?
No. Following helps you find updates and group public catalog progress. Genuine ownership requires an eligible pattern entitlement once real sales are available.
Is a gold border the same as Craft Proof?
No. Gold is a personal self-marked completion; Craft Proof labels describe a separate review process.
Will my website cards and Yarn Shelf automatically sync to the Android app?
No. The website’s private account features and the app’s existing local projects and PDFs remain separate until a specifically implemented, user-approved sync exists.