Yarn Support

Miss Babs loves working with independent designers to help provide wonderful patterns for our customers! 

We ask designers interested in using our yarn for an upcoming pattern to send us a sketch, swatch, and description of the garment to helen@missbabs.com, together with a link to other designs you've created. The more details you can provide about your design the better! When we receive these emails we review them to see if they are something that will work well with our yarns and appeal to our customers.

To help us understand how your design will work, please specify:

  • Yarn base
  • Approximate yardage used
  • Color suggestions
  • Overall size and ease (if relevant)

(Pro tip: we love one-skein wonders and aren't big fans of seed stitch or reverse stockinette. Projects that are adjustable to the amount of yarn in a skein or will work for multiple gauges are also favorites!)

If we think the design is a good match for our customers and yarns, we discuss colorways with the designer, sometimes picking from the existing range, sometimes developing specific colorways, depending on the situation. 

Once we have selected or developed the colorways, yarn is sent to the designer. We are happy to provide discount codes for test knitters. We ask for designers to let us know a week or two in advance of releasing the pattern, so we have time to make sure the yarn is available, especially if there are special colorways, and so we can block out some social media posts to help cross-promote the pattern.

If you are a designer with an idea you want to share, we hope you'll get in touch!