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Technical EditingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15777508887808162304noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7299983863268384262.post-1633901692461294492017-01-13T14:21:00.000-08:002017-01-13T14:36:27.453-08:00Knitters, Ask Me a Question About Your Knitting!Sometimes we get stumped in the middle of a knitting work in progress. Beginners and advanced knitters alike.<br />
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Let's keep the needles clicking and ask your knitting questions here! I promise I will answer your question or point you in the right direction if I can't!<br />
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Post in the comments below!<br />
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Nin 😀Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15777508887808162304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7299983863268384262.post-20083558005153007502016-12-04T11:00:00.000-08:002018-03-03T16:09:29.168-08:00Tips For Aspiring Knitting Designers<i>This post was originally written by me on one of the designing groups over on <a href="http://ravelry.com/">Ravelry.com</a>. If you are not a member, you should be! So much excellent advice given freely by designers at all levels of achievement. You can't beat that! </i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>You love to knit.</b></span> You love the idea of creating your own patterns and selling them to other knitters. But, where to start?<br />
As a knitting designer (<a href="http://www.nindesigns.ca/">http://www.nindesigns.ca/</a>), and as a technical editor for knitting patterns, there are definitely things I would have done differently starting out on my designer journey.<br />
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First, I'd like to say that if you are knitting
patterns by other designers, you are <b>way</b> ahead of the game. (I didn't do that.) That is an excellent spring board for
gaining new techniques and understanding *why* they decided to do
what they did with their design. (I only read them, not knit.
Knitting them is great practice and helps you discover what you love
to knit, and potentially design, thus helping to establish yourself
as an expert your customers can trust. Think of Cookie A and
WoollyWormhead, two ladies out of <i>many</i> designers I greatly admire.)</div>
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That said, <u>ALWAYS</u> look at a design you
admire and ask yourself <b>WHY</b>. Why did they use a raglan sleeve
instead of a tailored set in sleeve? Why did they knit it in the
round? Why did they use that stitch pattern?
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Then, you follow up with **<b>WHAT</b>** would
I do different with this design? That is the tough question, but a
great way to get the creative juices flowing. Have a notebook or a
sketch book and draw/sketch what your answer. Set it aside, then ask
yourself later when you come back to it, <b>WHAT</b> would I do <i>different</i>
with this design? And sketch that.
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Another thing you can do is look at
clothing in your or your child's closet. (BTW, Debbie Bliss taught
me this trick at Vogue Knitting Live NYC2014.) You know what your
favorite shape/garment is. Think how you could reconstruct that
shape by knitting. What stitches would you use to spice it up? Is
there something that you don't like about the real garment that you'd
love to change? Sketch it out in your design/ideas/dream book.</div>
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Sketching is really important to
document your journey in design. But so is <b>SWATCHING</b>. </div>
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Never, ever, use the
gauge on the knitting ball as the gauge for your design, even if you
use the suggested needles. Swatch. Your "hand" is
different when you knit in the round or flat. Your hand is different
from my hand. If you do not swatch to figure out your hand for your
design, it will make it very difficult for your customers to recreate
your beautiful sample shown in your pattern glamour shot. Customer
frustration can/will lead to a negative connection to your design
brand. <span style="color: red;">YOU DON'T WANT THAT!!!!</span></div>
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And set goals. Hold yourself
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Vision Boards and Bullet Journaling are great for helping you to stay focused! </div>
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Here is a sample of people talking about vision boards.</div>
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And Bullet Journals...</div>
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This young ADHD woman is so funny!</div>
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And Boho Berry, the queen of bullet journaling...</div>
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Say you want to publish 10 patterns in 2017.
Break it down. 52 weeks in a year, so you have 5.2 weeks for each
design. Say you want to have 3 weeks for test knitting, (that's
pretty generous, but shawls/sweaters might take that long) and 1.5
weeks to have your tech editor work with you to make the pattern as
error free as possible. So, that might give you only <u>1/2 week</u> to
come up with the design and write it out. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>(What!?! 1/2 week to come up with a design, write it out and knit a sample?) </b></span></span></div>
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Well, yes.</div>
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So let's think about what could you do to speed up that
writing process.
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<li> Make friends with spreadsheets; they
make grading and math for your increases and decreases so much
easier!!!<span style="font-size: small;"> "<i><b>Sizing Knitwear Patterns</b></i></span><span style="font-size: small;">" with Faina Goberstein on the Craftsy.com platform is where I learned to use OpenOffice Calc (free program) effectively. Faina use Excel, but much transfers to OpenOffice. By the way, this course is AMAZING!!! </span></li>
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<li>Having a **<b>style sheet and a pattern
template</b>** is a huge help too. It makes it easier/faster for your TE
to correct your pattern if you already have your consistency of
wording/abbreviations right before you hand it to them, a long with
your <b>style sheet</b>. This will save you <i>time</i>, which is <i>MONEY</i>.</li>
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<li>Keep your swatches for each yarn,
needle size that you love to work with and favorite stitch pattern in
a swatch binder or file. Make sure you mark the gauge and keep the
yarn band details! This saves time because you don't need to swatch,
and you can plug the math into your design elements, thus making a
bare bones pattern to knit from.
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<li>If you design as you knit, make sure
to write down each step! You don't want to have a gorgeous finished
item and have no idea how you did it.
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Remember, while you are guiding your
test knit or waiting for your TE to get back to you, <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">you can be
sketching/dreaming of the next design.</span> That makes that 1/2 week goal
<i>MUCH </i>easier to adhere to. Plus, some designs might not take 5.2
weeks to complete and publish. And as Norah Gaughan once mentioned
in a class I took at KNIT EAST, reuse elements of a great design you
came up with in another design, but be creative with it! If it was a
cable on the front, what about a scaled down version on a cuff? Hem?
On a mitt? You get the idea.
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And when you don't have a design in
mind or having designer's block, swatch an interesting stitch pattern
from a dictionary. Add it to your swatch binder/folder. Who knows?
It might spark a design!</div>
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Hope some of this helps, and good luck!</div>
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Nin :)</div>
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This is a beautiful sewn bind off that matches a tubular cast on perfectly! It's not hard to do and so worth the effort.<br />
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NOTE: you will need a tapestry needle and an extra double pointed needle the same size as your working knitting needles.<br />
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Please end your ribbing with 2 purls so you can start the sewn bind off with the 2 knit stitches.<br />
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Make sure your yarn tail is 3 times the length of edge to be bound off. Thread your tapestry needle.<br />
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Place your purl stitches onto one needle and knit stitches on another. Only place as many stitches as you can comfortably work with on the extra double pointed needle. Hold the 2 needles parallel, with the knit stitches in the front.<br />
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Insert the tapestry needle into the 1st knit stitch as if to purl and pull all the yarn tail through.<br />
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Insert the tapestry needle into the 1st purl stitch knitwise and pull the yarn through.<br />
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Bring the tapestry needle to the front and insert it into the 1st knit stitch as if to knit, pulling the yarn through and dropping this stitch off the needle.<br />
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Insert the tapestry needle into the next knit stitch as if to purl and pull the yarn all the way through.<br />
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Insert the tapestry needle into the 1st purl stitch as if to purl, pulling the yarn through and dropping this stitch off the needle.<br />
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Insert the tapestry needle into the next purl stitch as if to knit, pulling the yarn all the way through.<br />
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Repeat steps 5-8 until all stitches are bound off. Weave in end.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15777508887808162304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7299983863268384262.post-23011705460973328282016-11-02T07:31:00.000-07:002016-11-02T07:31:11.939-07:00Learning to knit? How about hunting trolls!I'm volunteering to teach knitting at my local school to middle school kids. It's part of a knitting club that was formed. What fun! Seriously, it really is!<br />
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<script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15777508887808162304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7299983863268384262.post-66908645992491568102016-10-29T14:25:00.000-07:002016-10-29T14:25:01.904-07:00Do you need a tech editor?<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-version="7" style="background: #fff; border-radius: 3px; border: 0; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.5) , 0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: 99.375%;">
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<script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15777508887808162304noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7299983863268384262.post-6231483031179585202016-10-14T08:42:00.000-07:002016-10-14T08:42:48.947-07:00Get Your Free Knitting Abbreviations Style Sheet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A huge part of writing out a beautiful knitting pattern is consistency. <br />
Consistency, you may ask? <br />
Consistency. Your knitter wants to enjoy the knitting experience. They bought your pattern and just wanna knit. If you are not consistent in your writing, it will distract the knitter. Not a good thing!<br />
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Example: <br />
Round 1: Knit two, p6, ktbl, purl6, k2.<br />
Rnd Two; purl to the end.<br />
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Oh my. That's pretty extreme, but you get the idea. <br />
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This is where my new <a href="http://blogspot.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=da70f936ce70e50883c549697&id=77b088a3b4" target="_blank">free knitting abbreviations style sheet</a> can help. <b>Simply sign up for my monthly newsletter and get your abbreviations style sheet PDF right away.</b> (A link will also be delivered to your email.) Once you have your free style sheet, simply go through each row in the table and circle the abbreviation you prefer. <br />
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Let me show you:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Friends don't let knitting designer friends publish without a tech editor. </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15777508887808162304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7299983863268384262.post-25899143123987725632016-10-03T17:08:00.002-07:002016-10-03T18:26:00.149-07:00Sock it too me! Getting the right fit for your foot.<style type="text/css">P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }</style>
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Yes, that's a rather over used title,
but as a designer, I do tend to get complaints once and a while from
various customers that say my ____ sock pattern does not fit because
it is too tight, too baggy or way to wide at various point of the
sock. Why is this? Is the design flawed? Nope. I just us a
“vanilla” way to try to design the sock to fit the majority of
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But where does this leave the customer
who has dainty ankles, thick ankles, high arches, fallen arches, very
narrow feet or very wide feet? Well... it leaves them with ill
fitting socks and most likely cold feet due to not being able to wear
them. Not fun.</div>
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Since becoming a Tech Editor, this is
something that I want to change in my patterns. Or a least give a
“recipe” for clients to use to get a better, if not perfect fit.</div>
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Feet are truly amazing, mechanically
speaking. So the garment that wraps around them must be mechanically
sound so they do not impede the movement of the foot. Let's look as
some ways to make socks fit better for various “problem” areas.</div>
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Arches. Ugh. I myself have a high
arch and a large heel circumference, which make buying shoes that fit
a nightmare. It also makes knitting socks that fit really
problematic. What to do?</div>
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The circumference measurement around
the heel is the ticket. I must make my heel flap LONGER, therefore
I'm picking up more stitches for the gusset, and taking longer to
decrease back to the original cast-on number for the foot length.</div>
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A person with a dainty foot, (here's me
being envious) might have to make the heel flap SHORTER to avoid a
baggy, sloppy heel and too much fabric through the arch and foot
area.</div>
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Changing the size of the needle for
cast-on might help with tightening up a baggy sock before the heel
flap, and likewise a too tight tube for thicker ankles. Increasing
or decreasing the cast-on might get you into murky waters if the sock
is highly patterned and needs a set number of stitches to work.
That's why SWATCHING (yes, I hear the majority of you groaning!) is
so crucial for the perfect fit.</div>
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So here is the fun part. The math!
(Stop groaning!) </div>
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Cast-on is the standard 64 sts with a
size 2.5mm or 2US, using gauge of 28 sts = 10cm or 4” or 2.8 sts
per cm or 7 sts per inch. And my gauge swatch says this is true.
Although I should worry about row height in the pattern that I intend
to use for my heel, I'm assuming it is fine as well.</div>
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My ankle size: 23cm 23*2.8= 64.4 sts
Casting on 64 sts is fine.</div>
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Heel circumference: 32.5cm 32.5*2.8=
91 sts</div>
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Foot circumference: 24.5cm 24.5*2.8
= 68.6 sts or 68 sts</div>
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So, 1/2 of 64 sts = heal flap of 32
sts. I make this heel flap 32 rows high, so I will be picking up 16
slipped stitches on both sides. I turn the heel until 12 sts remain.
12+16+32+16= 76 sts</div>
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Heel circumference should be close to
91 sts. With a 32 row heel flap, I'm coming in at 76 sts. Not gonna
fit. Rats!</div>
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Okay, so if I make my pick up stitches
22 on both sides of the heel flap, I get 88 sts. With a little
stretch, that's good enough for me! That means I've got to make my
heal flap 44 rows high. The decreasing through the gusset will
accommodate my high arch and I've got me a happy sock! But wait, I
have an unfortunately wide foot. So instead of decreasing to the
original 64 sts, I'm going to decrease to 68 sts. No big deal. I
might start the toe decrease 2 rows before the “usual.”</div>
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Hurray for math!</div>
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What does this mean? As a designer, I
have a few sock patterns that need updated notes sections. As a Tech
editor, it means the client, ie: ME, will be happy. And that's the
best feeling for a tech editor.<br />
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Let me know what you think in the comments below! </div>
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