Are you interested in writing for Sew Daily or having one of your sewing or embroidery designs featured online or in one of our magazines? We’d love to hear from you. Please spend some time reviewing the submission guidelines below before submitting any concepts or designs. We do our best to respond in a timely manner, but due to the large volume of submissions we receive, it’s not always possible for us to respond to every request. Thanks in advance for your understanding.
Call for Sew News Submissions
We are seeking submissions for our Sew News Fall 2024 and and Winter 2025 issues.
- We are also looking for sewists and organizations with inspiring portfolios of work to be featured in our Meet the Maker, People Who Sew, Common Thread, and Q&A articles. Show us your work and tell us your story!
- We’d love to see unique techniques, pattern hacks, fitting methods, new ways to use existing tools and supplies, and ideas we’ve never featured before.
- You probably have great ideas to share if you are teaching, blogging about, or showcasing your sewing projects! Have a sewing question, tip, idea, or comment? We also want to hear from you!
- Take a look at the issue mood boards below—we hope you’re inspired to create for us!
This call for submissions includes project ideas, themes, and colors for specific upcoming issues. We have included other ideas to inspire you as well. The images and photos included on the mood boards below are for inspirational purposes only.
Call for Creative Machine Embroidery Submissions
Creative Machine Embroidery is the only magazine devoted entirely to the art of machine embroidery, and we’re so proud to be the company bringing it to you! We want you to be part of CME, and we’d love to see your ideas.
- Send in your fabulous projectideas, your take on fresh trends, exciting new techniques, and ideas for making money with your machine.
- We are also looking for content for our Basic Training and Fabric Foray columns, unique projects for the Quilt This feature, and embroiderists and designers with inspiring portfolios to feature in our Behind the Design column. Show us your stuff!
- We’d love to see unique techniques and tutorials for using new or existing tools and designs, and if you have a question, please ask it so we can answer it in our Ask the Embroiderer column.
This call for submissions includes project ideas, themes, and colors for specific issues. We have included other ideas to inspire you as well. The images and photos included below are for inspirational purposes only. We hope our Fall and Winter CME mood boards inspire you to submit your work!
Submission Guidelines
All projects submitted to us must be original, unpublished work. Only electronic submissions will be considered for acceptance. We do not accept physical submissions.
Please check our website regularly for upcoming project themes for each issue and submission deadlines.
How to Submit by Email
- Send a brief description of the project idea explaining the basic construction and key elements to [email protected]. Include digital images (jpeg or pdf) of a project sketch or photo and of the fabric samples you propose.
- Be sure to include your name, address, website, and phone number, and list your credentials (such as previous project design and/or writing experience).
- We will get back to you within eight weeks via e-mail.
Copyright Issues
No submissions that may violate copyright laws will be accepted.
Feature Article Submissions for Sew Daily
We also accept proposals and ideas for digital articles. Think pattern hacks, tips & tricks, sew the look, quick projects, and more! If you have a fun idea for an engaging article we want to hear it. Submit your general article idea with a supporting image to [email protected]. Digital articles range from 200 to 500 words.
Acceptance and Payment
Receipt of your submission of a project or feature will be promptly acknowledged, but we may not be able to make a decision about its use right away. Please be patient. At the earliest, expect to hear from us within eight weeks after submission materials are due. Submissions for both articles and projects are sometimes held for future issues; you will be notified if this is the case. For accepted submissions, we license exclusive first-time publication rights and subsequent nonexclusive rights for use in print, electronic, or other Interweave publications and promotions. You retain the copyright to the original work.
Upon acceptance of your work and before your work is published, you will receive a contract stating the terms of acceptance. All payments are made upon publication.
We look forward to hearing from you!