Since GPSR 2024 came into effect on 13th December, we’ve been in a state of limbo at Little Fig, whilst we figure out what we need to do as a business to stay compliant with EU law. It’s been really hard to find out what the new regs mean for our digital products, and what we might need to change around our practice to continue offering our patterns for sale in the EU and NI. Accurate information is quite hard to pin down, so lots of us as pattern designers are doing the best we can to interpret the government guidance, and hoping that more information comes to light in the near future.
We wanted to update you as to our decisions so far, so that you can hopefully understand why you may not be able to currently purchase the pattern you wanted, depending on where in the world you’re based. At this stage, we are able to continue to sell our existing patterns, through the platforms we already use, to anywhere in the world.
Moving forward, as we don’t yet know the requirements in terms of documentation and EU representation, we’re really sorry but we can’t sell our patterns to residents of the EU and NI. We’ve also had to remove our free pattern downloads temporarily from the website, as the new regulations also cover products offered for free. We really hope that this will only be a temporary issue, though, and we’re working hard behind the scenes to complete the documentation needed, so that we can make our patterns available to everyone again. We’ll update you as soon as we’ve got news on this.
We know this is really frustrating, and hope our EU and NI customers will stick with us whilst we figure everything out.
Love, Michelle & Charis x
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