How long have you spent trying to manually work out the increase or decrease rates for your knitting pattern? What if I told you that you could automate the whole process in a couple of minutes using a spreadsheet and four easy steps? As much as it sounds too good to be true, this is exactly what I am going to teach you. By the end of this blog post, you’ll have everything you need to start calculating your shaping rates easily and efficiently at the click of a mouse.
Read MoreWhether you’re a newbie at design or a seasoned professional, you all need systems around your design process. Systems help you to become more efficient so that you can spend more time designing and releasing knitting patterns, rather than trying to figure out what you should be doing next. In this blog post, I will share 3 systems I use to help make knitting pattern design feel easier and less overwhelming.
Read MoreSpreadsheets are one of the most efficient ways to calculate the numbers in your knitting pattern, as well as grade it into multiple sizes. However, they can be very intimidating if you don’t have much experience with them! In this blog post, I explain how to use four of the handiest functions that I use frequently in my pattern spreadsheets.
Read MoreShort row shaping is a brilliant way of discreetly adding 3D shaping to your knitting pattern designs, but it can be a bit of a brain teaser to figure out how to actually calculate it. In this blog post, I’m going to show you a simple way of calculating your short row shaping using a spreadsheet.
Read MoreDo knitting pattern designers need to be good at maths? In this blog post, I answer this big question as well as provide some tips on how to make it work as a knitting pattern designer, even if you are bad at maths.
Read MoreLearning how to grade knitting patterns is a challenge for many knitwear designers. Imagine if stitch and row counts as well as shaping could be calculated across all sizes at the click of a button. I’ll show you how using a simple spreadsheet!
Read MoreYou don’t need fancy software or the ability to add up sums in your head to grade knitting patterns. All you need is a spreadsheet. In this in-depth tutorial, I show you how I use spreadsheets to grade all of my knitting patterns.
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