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Our promise to pattern designers

Yarnstep helps people follow patterns they paid for. That only works if designers keep getting paid, so these rules are built into the app, not added later.

The six rules

Only patterns people own
Yarnstep has no pattern catalog and no store. Every pattern in it was imported by someone who has the file: bought, downloaded from you, or written by them.
No sharing
Imported patterns cannot be shared, exported or sent to another Yarnstep user. There is no social feed.
No scraping
We never crawl pattern shops, designer sites, blogs or videos, and we never will.
No training
Your patterns are never used to train a model, ours or anyone else’s. Pattern text is read only to guide the person who imported it.
Your name on every pattern
Each pattern has a designer field and a link to buy it. We ask for both at import and show them on the pattern page.
Your words stay yours
Guided steps keep the pattern’s wording and show the original line next to each step. Yarnstep does not write new patterns.

The designer opt-out list

If you would rather your patterns were not guided in Yarnstep, tell us. When someone imports a pattern with your designer name, the app keeps it as a plain PDF with counters and does not split it into rows.

Write to team@yarnstep.comfrom the email on your shop or site, with your designer name as it appears on your patterns.

Report a problem with a pattern

  1. 1Email team@yarnstep.com with the pattern name and what you saw, such as a screenshot or a link.
  2. 2We reply within three working days and tell you what we found.
  3. 3If Yarnstep is being used against these rules, we fix the app or remove the content, and we tell you when it is done.

Designer questions

Can someone use Yarnstep to send my pattern to a friend?

No. Imported patterns have no share or export button. The only way to get a pattern into Yarnstep is to have the file yourself.

Is my pattern used to train an AI model?

No. Pattern text is processed only to split it into rows for the person who imported it, and our provider’s paid terms do not allow training on it. We do not keep it on our server.

Does Yarnstep rewrite or generate patterns?

No. It keeps your wording, shows the original line next to every step, and never creates new patterns.

How do I get on the opt-out list?

Email team@yarnstep.com from the address on your shop or website with your designer name. We confirm within three working days.