Make Your Knitting pattern Design Dreams a Reality
Hi! My name is Clare and I want you to know that it is possible to make your dreams of designing your own knitting patterns a reality.
I’ve loved knitting ever since I was a teenager and at the age of 15, I printed out the prospectus for a Knitwear Design degree and took it to my school career’s councillor.
“I want to become a knitwear designer.”
I went on to study that exact degree four years later and after completing it, worked in the commercial fashion industry for a few years. However, I quickly realised that it wasn’t for me. I wanted to work with hand knitting instead.
I started designing my own knitting patterns back in 2016, cobbling together everything I’d learned in my knitwear degree, my work as a bespoke tailoring assistant and my many years of knitting obsessively from other people’s patterns. And of course, a healthy dose of google searching too!
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Several years later, I now have a tried and true system that simplifies the knitting pattern design process, which is exactly what I teach here on the blog so that other enthusiastic knitters can experience the joy and freedom that comes from being able to design and create whatever their heart dreams up!
About Me
Mum to Nico (fondly known as Nicochu) who is obsessed with animals right now 😸
Listens to audiobooks every single night to fall asleep - currently, lots of Lord of the Rings 💤
Could eat dahl for dinner every day of my life 🍛
Really, really good at breaking complicated processes down into actionable steps 👩🏼🏫
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Business name: Sister Mountain Ltd
Company number: 14008848
Registered office: 2nd Floor College House, 17 King Edwards Road, Ruislip, London, HA4 7AE, United Kingdom
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FREE Sweater Design Video
Want to design your own sweater patterns but don’t know where to start?
In this free 40-minute workshop, I’ll walk you through the first three steps I take every time I design something new, from finding inspiration to sketching ideas to swatching your way into a real design.
Grading doesn’t have to be intimidating. In this post, I walk you through how I use a simple spreadsheet to grade my knitting patterns from 28-62” chest with clear examples at every step.