January Updates!

New Year New Goals

Hi everyone! I am super excited about 2019, and have some new goals I have made for myself going forward. I want to share those with you today! 

I have tasted some pretty satisfying success with everyone's AWESOME wips and finished footpaws that they made with my pattern! I am so proud of all of you and I am honestly proud that I have succeeded in making so many of you inspired to make footpaws, hahahaha!!! Aren't footpaws great? I hope I helped the process less difficult with the pattern and want "easy to sew" to be one big goal for patterns in the future too!

I want to make more patterns!! This is a big task, often spanning months to test and refine the pattern so it is perfect once published. So I hope you are looking forward to more printable features in the future from me, because it's another goal! Most will be posted to the $5+ pdf tier as I finish (like the retractable claws & liner patterns I have already posted!), but if its a really really big project you might get a peek and early WIP files in the $15 tutoring/chat tier.  My next BIIIG project planned is a digitigrade footpaws pattern, based on Bonk's footpaws I made him, but I am honestly open to suggestions on what you would like to see more of! Premium handpaw patterns? More variety in footpaw patterns? Tails? etc? feel free to contact me with your fun suggestions! I feel like making a goal of more patterns is a good direction to go for 2019.

With my new patterns now in a printable format, I've been putting together pattern kits that will be for sale in-person or at my dealers table! (Unfortunately they take a lot of labor to assemble so I haven't figured out a sustainable way to get these listed for sale online yet, so just for in-person sales for now. ) They are each a bound copy of the tutorial text with colored paper as the pattern itself. I am super proud of them, and finally ordered some clear bags to package them in to show them off!!

The next event I am selling at is Further Confusion in San Jose in a few weeks!! I hope to see some of you there! -- Mention the tier you support as one of my patrons and I'll give you a matrices.net pin while supplies last! I have 2 sizes now! Its so good to put faces to names, so it will be so good to see you there (or see you again, of course!)

Site Updates

The tutorials page has been updated with the new offerings! http://matrices.net/tutorials.htm

• The tutorial for "Pre-Shaving" is now public! Share it with your friends it is now located here: http://pupdates.matrices.net/post/181820870998/pre-shaving-faux-fur the original version I posted on Patreon is now public too.
• I also published the tutorial and pattern for "Retractable Claws" on etsy! https://www.etsy.com/listing/658888382/pattern-and-tutorial-retractable-claws 
• I also posted Use & Cleaning instructions for some of the things I sell in person or online! http://pupdates.matrices.net/post/181660234573/use-cleaning-instructions 

I have also revised the Sponsors page with the new sponsors!! Thank you everyone, you're awesome!!! http://www.matrices.net/sponsors.htm 

As-always, if you have sponsored ($10+ tiers now or in the past!) and I have the wrong name or you'd like a different name, just get in touch with me and I will update it with the new info! This process isn't automated, so sometimes it takes me a bit to get this page updated, thanks for your sponsorship and patience <3 

I hope everyone has an awesome 2019 and beyond! Thanks for crafting with me :D