Writing A Craft Book

Yep, I did decide to go ahead and do a craft book on making cat toys (from ¼ yard or less of material).  I figure that if I’ve been doing this many toys per year, I can take the easier designs and do up patterns and instructions for others to be able to duplicate them.

It’ll be divided into beginner, intermediate and advanced. And each section divided by simple to the more complex.  Many don’t even require a sewing machine, or can be sewn by hand if someone doesn’t have a machine to help. 

So as research I’ve been checking the crafting books at the library to see how the introduction is written, how much space is given to each explanation at the start of the sections, and how they describe HOW to make an item.  It all seems pretty straightforward. 

I’ve got patterns for 38 different types of cat toys. I’m not going to put all of them in, just the basic ones with info on how to add extra to the appearances and such. 

Since I don’t intend on self publishing it I’ll have to do research into how to approach publishers in the craft industry as well.  Lucky me.  This will take a while.