Wholesale Terms & Support Services

Working hard for your success! Join the excitement in how HeartStrings knitting patterns can complement your yarn sales and add to your customers' knitting enjoyment.

HeartStrings FiberArts is the wholesale-only publisher of the premiere HeartStrings collections of yarn-brand independent knitting patterns. See how the many exceptional marketing and sales support services you get as a retailer of HeartStrings patterns can increase your profits and move more yarns off your shelves. I am here to help you in any way I can. Testimonials

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Patterns to take knitting beyond the ordinary

The mission of Jackie Erickson-Schweitzer (Jackie E-S, ownder of HeartStrings FiberArts, is to instruct and inspire knitters in making their own heart-felt creations. Since 1995, Jackie E-S has been designing and publishing skill-building, comprehensive, knitter-friendly pattern instructions. The patterns are yarn-brand independent for the knitter's creative freedom, and to benefit shops in promoting HeartStrings patterns with yarns they already stock.

Jackie E-S Design Collections

• Designs ranging from the classic to the uniquely appealing. Specializing in knitted lace and beaded knitting. Garments, scarves and shawls, socks, fashion accessories and home decor.
• Individual patterns/leaflets are printed on 70# acid-free archival quality paper. Standard pattern format is full-page layout inserted into acid-free archival quality heavy duty 8½" x 11" 3-hole punched crystal clear sheet protectors. Some designs also available in "space-saver" folded half-page leaflet format inserted into 6" x 9" crystal clear polypropylene zipper bags with hang hole.
• Ready to display and sell as is, or kit with yarns you stock for a value-add unique product offering.
• HeartStrings patterns also make a good basis for classes in your shop. Each pattern includes skill-building techniques – learning new things makes knitting even more fun!

The Sock Calendar Book Series

Note: The Sock Calendar is now out of print; however, some designs have been republished as individual patterns. The Sock Journal is still available.

• Monthly-themed sock knitting patterns and write-in journal combined into one book.
• Designs by Catherine Wingate. Edited and published by Jackie Erickson-Schweitzer.
• 30 page 8½ x 11" with soft cover and stitched binding, printed in full color on heavy glossy stock.
• The Sock Journal is ready to display as is, or use as pattern support for shop-sponsored monthly classes and sock-of-the-month kits.

Dealer Support Services

As an active dealer of HeartStrings patterns in good standing, you can take advantage of all these services to help you sell even more HeartStrings patterns.

• CONVENIENT ORDERING and SALES SUPPORT: Your choice of on-line ordering, toll-free phone/fax number and dedicated email address for convenient ordering and sales support.
• AUTOMATIC SHIPMENT PROGRAM (optional participation). Find out more
• COMPLETE ONLINE CATALOG: 24-hour access to online photo gallery and information on all HeartStrings publications.
• Complete DOWNLOADABLE CATALOG for printing and off-line viewing.
• MARKETING MATERIALS SUPPORT: Permission to use flyers, sample pattern cover pages, my photos and descriptive text in any of your own marketing of the HeartStrings patterns you stock e.g. your newsletters, website, catalog, in-store computer kiosk, etc.
• COMPLIMENTARY STORE LISTING to help direct customers to buy HeartStrings patterns from you.
• ORDER REFERRALS/NEW CUSTOMERS: Free membership in Shopatron network of retailers. HeartStrings is happy to send its online sales and new customers to you. Find out more
• ADDITIONAL e-INCOME POTENTIAL: No-cost e-Patterns Sales Affiliate Program. Earn commissions for selling pdf downloads of selected HeartStrings patterns to online knitters. Find out more
• NATIONAL BRAND-NAME ADVERTISING: Brand name marketing ads in national magazines such as Interweave Knits, Creative Knitting, Knit 'n Style. See samples of recent ads.
• CONSUMER PROMOTIONS ON YOUR BEHALF: Thousands of knitters subscribe to the HeartStrings Knitterly News e-Newsletter for announcements of new HeartStrings products, articles, etc., thus keeping knitting consumers interested in HeartStrings knitting patterns and looking for them at your shop. View archives of HeartStrings Knitterly News.
• Consignment TRUNK SHOWS are offered as a service to established HeartStrings dealers in good standing. If your shop is planning a special event, a Trunk Show is a great way to create even more excitement about HeartStrings patterns and to enhance the total customer experience in selecting got-to-have knitting projects. More information
• PRIVATE LABEL ARRANGEMENTS: Special Edition patterns are an economical way for you to provide custom pattern support to your customers for a yarn branded under your own label, or that of a manufacturer's that you are using in a special promotion (e.g. monthly club, kits, etc.). Special Edition patterns picture the project model made in your featured yarn and list your specific yarn for knitting the project. You will have sole rights to sell your private label Special Edition pattern(s). Special Edition cover page example. Please contact me for details on getting your own special edition republication of any of the many popular HeartStrings patterns.
• DEALER NEWSLETTER: Free e-newsletter subscription for new product announcements, featured designs and selling tips. See a sample dealer newsletter.