What Does it Take to Design and Write a Knitting Pattern

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[starla.]

You are the Michelangelo of yarn - you let the yarn tell you what it wants to be! Love it!

[marychristoforo]

Wow! I’m exhausted just listening to the process. Lol.
Seriously, thanks for sharing this. Many of us don’t think about the time and effort that does into writing a pattern. You’re obviously doing it correctly, because I find your patterns to be easy to read and execute, and the results are always great!

[alanika]

I give mine swtaches to my 6Yo daughter. She likes to play with Barbie dolls, and she is happy to have those samples for her play.
Thank you for hard work ❤️

[debraessey]

Thank you so much for revealing how labor and math intensive designing is. It really opens my eyes to how little we pay for this in pattern prices! I watch a lot of knitting videos, but you were one of my first, and always a favorite!

[lorrainelawrence]

Wow the process seems to be very complex and overwhelming. To maintain all the pages and postings and pictures for ravelry and other places. I am pooped out just thinking about it. I applaud your strength and all the work you do to give a pattern from scratch. Thank you for your videos. I love watching you and knitting with you.

[krypticlf]

First of all Big Thumbs Up to you Barbara! You did fantastic job in explaining your process. This was greatly informative.
I am a new knitter only been knitting for just 6 months but I have noticed (borrowing from one of your earlier Videos - what type of knitter are you) I am an adventurous knitter and love myself a challenge. I did small alterations in the pattern for the second shawl I knitted (lace pattern) and I experienced the whole ‘lot of maths involved’ part of the process. I have immense respect for the designers and their patterns for just that reason but that made me fell in love with lace knitting and shawl knitting. I have read blogs of other designers explaining their process and it’s so subjective; but nothing really connected. I want to design my own patterns at some point, and I come from digital design background and I tend to design things mostly in my head before i even sketch anything so you talking about going straight to knitting and using graphics softwares sounded familiar to my way of doing things. Thank you so much for sharing your process! Really appreciate your work and designs 😊. Keep them videos coming!

[millieo.]

Wow! Much appreciation for all you have to do to get a design out. You do beautiful work! Thank you for all of your videos...🤗🥰

[vchristo]

Barbara wow!!! I am so impressed just listening to you. You are very smart designer. I just started “every witch way “ the three panel one, it is so smart pattern. I am so excited knitting it. Thank you for your creativity.

[IslandLady]

Thank you for this information. Kind of makes you appreciate your patterns are only $6. What a bargain!

[naseerahvj]

Love this! So interesting how simmer and different our process are. Also timely as I'm re looking into publishing my patterns.

[naseerahvj]

Btw you are one of the Knitters I most love to watch on YouTube. You and knitting pipeline are my two favs with verypink knits being my fav for technical instruction. Just wanted to let you know

[teresaleive]

I liked finally meeting you in person at Rhinebeck. I will be buying more of your patterns in the future from Ravelry. Teresa

[clairerygg]

What a great, informative video on the knitwear design process. I appreciate the creative and technical process of making a knitwear pattern. Brava, Barbara!

[sandygrogg]

This was great! I loved hearing about the process you go through to produce a pattern. Loved the swatches... I now have a much better appreciation of them. Thanks!

[dogsinolga]

That blue shawl is so beautiful, wow. ~Marie

[nancykeate]

That’s a ton of work ! I get ideas in my head but that’s as far as it gets !

[heatherallen]

Thank you for sharing how you do your pattern designs. I love knitting your patterns as they are so easy to follow and knit up. So the effort is really appreciated by me. I have been knitting something from a big wool company’s pattern and boy do they leave lots of information out and I struggle to get things right. So again thank you for your amazingly well written patterns. I am onto my 5th project from your patterns and have done knitting things I have never tried before and succeeded 😁👏🏻😁👏🏻

[TrudySchwartzBurrill]

This is something that I have requested you discuss this. Love this!!! Thanks so much. My husband helps me with math, Art is very mathmatic. So its kinda crazy cause math and I are not friends. It's interesting how what we need to understand we eventually get and are able to get the answers we need. And still I am not be any better at math. lol.

[arleneehrlinspiel]

This is why when someone asks for a pattern of a piece I have made I will refer them to the artist, and where they can purchase the pattern for themselves. Most people do not realize how much work goes into a design and the how much education is needed to creating a design. Thank you for doing this video.

[marilynjones]

I am such a beginner...I hang out at the knit from a pattern stage!
Thank you for the wonderful patterns and all the work...I totally love that you tell us how many stitches we should have!