Journey is retiring and all the patterns are digitalized…

After selling thousands of copies of my first book; Journey, it is time for this title to retire. It has been out in the world for three years and to all good things comes an end. Honestly, I am happy so many people have been happy with the book and most of the patterns out of the book are made very often by many of you. But…it is also a good thing it comes to an end, as behind the scenes the book didn’t leave a very pretty memory. Sometimes you make the wrong choices by trusting people and storing that trust and your lifework in others’ hands….with a not-so-well outcome.

After three years, the end is near and it is time for Journey to live on through my own stores in a digital way. There are still copies left out there in the world, but slowly, things will get out of stock, and once stockings are done, no physical item is available any longer. I have been working hard on digitalizing the patterns out of the book and getting them out there on Ravelry and Etsy as digital PDF files. I can happily announce it is done.

On both Ravelry – as well Etsy all twelve patterns out of Journey are now available as a digital purchase. You can buy the patterns individually – but also still as an e-book. In this way, Journey is now available to all, even if you only want a single pattern out of the book.

Some questions answered about this update:

• I got the question lately if any owner of the physical book will now have access to these digital patterns as well. The answer is no. I can’t check who really is the owner of a book and who isn’t. Besides, having a hard copy also gives the opportunity to take a photo out of the book or even scan pages in. You can make your own digital content out of it for personal use.
• The digital files are a bit different from the original book chapters. As the book held a lot of colored pages and graphic designing, it would be horrible to print a file like that. So, I have made a print-friendly file with all the same information about a pattern you also get in the book. This means written instructions, charts, all general information, and even some other parts of the book that are relevant.
• The pricing of the individual patterns is actually in line with the discounted new pricing stated by the Dutch book companies. However, when you want to purchase the e-book version, which includes all 12 patterns, a discount is taken off the price, as the original e-book was also sold for a lower price range.
• In the first edition of Journey, there are some typos and errata. In these digital files, all these changes are done, and so the patterns are fully up to date.

So, if you like to see everything about the digital patterns out of Journey, please visit the related page on which you find the patterns out of the book and the links to my stores to find the individual patterns and the e-book.

Journey information page

I hope to finish my second book, Gallery, next week. Will be back soon with more information about Gallery.