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How to Decrease Tech Editing Costs: Your Knitting Pattern Editing Checklist

Wanting to decrease your tech editing costs but still publish high quality knitting patterns? The key is to pre-edit your pattern...

A Knitting Pattern Designer's Guide to Generating New Design Ideas

Struggling to create new ideas that are fun, intriguing, fit your audience, and aren't just another version of something you've already...

A Knitting Pattern Designer's Guide to Collaborating with Indie Yarn Dyers

As a new knitting pattern designer, it's often a dream to think of collaborating yarn dyers. I remember feeling like I'd be a "real"...

5 Things Your Test Knitters Want to Tell You as the Knitting Pattern Designer

As I was collecting information from my Instagram audience about their perspectives and opinions on test knitting and tech editing, I...

A Knitting Pattern Designer's Guide to Test Knitting: What, Why, and How Pattern Testing Works

When you've finished writing your knitting pattern, you've only finished the first step of the process. Often the following steps, where...

A Knitting Pattern Designer's Guide to Tech Editing: What, Why, and How Pattern Tech Editing Works

When you've finished writing your knitting pattern, you've only finished the first step of the process. Often the following steps, where...

Knitting Tech Editor vs Test Knitters: Why Do I Need Both for My Knitting Patterns?

When you've finished writing your knitting pattern, you've only finished the first step of the process. Often the following steps, where...

Why You Can't Just Do What Everyone Else is Doing When Selling Knitting Patterns

We're used to conforming to the expectations of society, family, friends, all of the people that surround us... and so it can be...

How to Design Knitting Patterns with a Process that Works for You

You have your knitting pattern design idea, but you're feeling stuck. Where do you start? What process should you follow? Does it matter?...

Using Story to Connect with Your Audience as a Knitting Pattern Designer

Have you ever thought about how much stories connect us as human beings? I've been thinking about it a lot lately. We are each unique...