Designers Info

Be a Designer on QuiltInk

  • Your patterns listed on QuiltInk, for people making their own digital colour versions.
  • An easy and fun modern tool for your customers to color your patterns.
  • Any sewing technique is welcome: traditional piecing, with templates, foundation paper piecing, english paper piecing, appliqué patterns and improv patterns can be placed in Quiltink.
  • Upload as many sizes as you want of every pattern.
  • Set up as many colour versions of every pattern size as you want as basis for users to color your pattern on QuiltInk.
  • Private Rooms for testers, fabric shops or just for you making all the tests you want.
  • Possibility of embedding the colouring pages of your pattern onto your website.
  • A personal page where to edit your info, subscribed plan and patterns.
  • Links to the shopping webpage and descriptions of every pattern.
  • All for a monthly fee, depending on the number of patterns.

How to get a Designer Account

  1. Make an User account by registering on QuiltInk.

2. Ask to “Get a Designer Account” by filling the form at the Info Page on on QuiltInk (5th icon in the bottom bar).
After QuiltInk admin check your info, your Designer Account will be activated. You will be notified by email or instagram chat. You can see you are designer seeing “Designer on QuiltInk” below you username in you account page.

3. In the person icon at the top bar you will find your “Designer Page”, where you can edit all your info as designer on Quiltink.

4. Subscribe to a Plan.
A new designer can subscribe to a TRIAL Plan that will allow them to place 1 pattern (1 size) for 14 days, for free.
After the trial plan, or directly, any designer can subscribe to one of the next Paid Plans:

5. Fill in the form in your Personal page to upload a new pattern.

6. After the QuiltInk admin works on each pattern and places the skeletons on your “manage patterns” page, you will be notified and you can make your Colour Layouts and test them. 

7. The Designers can make public the patterns/versions whenever they want.

As a Designer you will have access to a lot of tutorials to learn how to use QuiltInk in its full potential. Catalina, the QuiltInk admin is always available to answer any questions you may have. Contact her by email (info@quiltink.com) or by Instagram DM (@quilt_ink).

Terms and Conditions

You have the possibility to place only your own patterns on Quiltink. You can’t place patterns from other designers.
To place patterns on Quiltink you need to pay a monthly fee by subscribing (through Stripe) to a plan indicated at the previous section.
Once you subscribe to a plan, if you decide to cancel it before the deadline, the paid fee won’t be refunded.
You have the possibility of increasing the number of patterns you have on Quiltink by canceling your subscription and subscribing to a new upper one. You also have the possibility to cancel your subscription and get a lower one.
If you cancel your subscription and don’t make another one, your account will remain as Designer but you won’t be able to place any pattern on QuiltInk.
In your account page you will have a button to edit your patterns at “Manage Patterns” on your “Designer Page”. There, you will be able to ask for a new pattern to be included on QuiltInk, to create all the version you want of your patterns to be colored, to edit patterns/versions information, to choose to make public or not every one of the patterns/versions you have, to manage your personal data, designer info, and pattern link, subscribe and change your plan subscribed.
As a DESIGNER, you have the possibility of coloring your own patterns and placing them in the public Wall.
Every one of your patterns will include a link to a webpage you choose to redirect the USER to buy your pattern. This link will be visible at: the coloring page, the pop up of every pattern in the public wall, and the patterns saved in the USERS pages.
Every one of your patterns will include an info button about the pattern and your profile. The DESIGNER can edit this information at the “Designer Page”.
The DESIGNERS can tell their customers to use QuiltInk as a complementary tool in their patterns.

Using private rooms

Private Rooms allow to colour a pattern to a selected group of QuiltInk users.

Using the Private Rooms

To access the Private Room all the users invited will see a purple floating button in the top right of your account profile box. Click it and you will access to the Private Rooms page.

The Private Rooms page is a mix between the QuiltInk Wall and a “Colour Layouts” main page for a pattern. So:

  • At the top, you will see all the patterns with a Private Room you have access to.
  • By clicking over one of the patterns on top, you will have access to the Private Room of this pattern, and you will see below all the Color Versions of this pattern made by you or the users included in
    this private room, which you can “love”, save in your favorites, export, etc. (all you can do in the public Wall).
  • To create a new Color Version of the pattern, click the “NEW +” button, over the second bar. The Colour Layouts page will be opened in the same way it does in the QuiltInk main patterns page. Click the Colour Layout you want to use as a basis and the colouring page will open, in the same way as in the public mode.
  • Make your colour versions and save them as finished versions or as Drafts, in the same way than in the public mode.
  • In your account, for your colour versions made in a private room, you will see an extra “Eye” and “Cloud” icons in a purple box. They are the icon you can use to make that Colour Versions visible or not in the private room Wall, “Eye” icon in the Saved versions, and to turn a Draft from a Private Room into a Saved from a Private Room, “Cloud” icon in the Draft versions. 

IMPORTANT: When you create a Colour version in a Private Room it won’t be published in the public Wall regardless the pattern is activated or not, and the “Eye” icon to share in the public Wall will be crossed. So, REMEMBER when the designer activates the pattern to appear as a public pattern in the main QuiltInk page, to click the “Eye” icon for your Colour Version appears in the public Wall (The “Eye” icon which is not in a purple box).

When a Private Room is closed, the Colour Versions made in that private room will turn into Colour Versions made from an active pattern in the main page. 
There is no possibility to reopen a Private Room closed.

Exporting your design

Sometimes you’d like to share your design on social media or save it in your device. With Quilt Ink this is as easy as clicking twice.

You have two export options: in PNG format or PDF format. Both options include exporting just an mock up of your design or the mock up along with the information about the design (colours used, size, lay out and link)

On the right side of your screen you’ll see several icons.

Click on the square with an arrow icon

A new window will pop up as shown below. First, select on the left side top menu if you wish to save the full page with all the info or just an image of your design.

Once you’ve chosen this option, on the right side of the top menu, click on the format needed: pdf or png.

The file will download automatically.