Submitting designs?

Has anyone ever submitted a design to a publisher? I have been making up my own patterns lately, and I was thinking that maybe I could get some money for them. But I have no idea where to start!

How many do you have ?
If you have alot I would make a book
Then find a publisher

I only have a few things. And it's all very different items! One is a snake scarf. There's a really long stocking hat, a pie pan holder, a hat, bookworm bookmarks, and an apple. I don't know if that would really be good for a book. I was thinking of selling them to the yarn companies or something. I guess I could hold off, and see what else I could come up with. But really I just make up things that I want to make for someone.

The scarf was for my son, this week.
The stocking hat is for my sister.
The pie pan holder is for my neighbor.
The apple and book marks were for my son's teachers last year.
And there was a hat that I made for my cousins little girl, then modified for my mom.

I would save them
victoria