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Featured Knitting Pattern Designer: Carmen (Kam) of Hand Knit by Kam

Join us for the featured designer of the month, Kam, the knitting pattern designer behind Hand Knit by Kam. In this live chat, we talk...

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...

Featured Knitting Pattern Designer: Hannah Thiessen of Slow Knitting, By Hand Serial + Hannah Belle

Join us for the first featured designer of the month, Hannah Thiessen, the knitting pattern designer behind Hannah Belle Knits, author of...

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...

Weekly Knit Chit Chat: Hang Out & Chat with a Knitting Pattern Designer Each Week

Do you like to hang out and interact with fellow knitters? Do you enjoy casual conversation that is always sprinkled with knitting chat?...

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...

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?...

What Do I Need to Include in My Knitting Pattern Design?

You have your design idea, and you've started to write out your knitting pattern. But suddenly you're at a standstill: what all do you...

Where to Sell Knitting Patterns Online: A Summary of Online Platforms for Selling Knitting Patterns

Why go to the effort of writing, testing, tech editing, and charting a pattern if you aren't going to make some money from the pattern?...

Favorite Tools for Designing (and Selling) Knitting Patterns

Many of us start out designing patterns without any clue of what it entails and what sort of tools we will need for our work. As we run...