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  • Tips for beginner knitting and crochet pattern designers. Learn from my mistakes! #knittingpodcast
    • 2025-03-16

    Tips for beginner knitting and crochet pattern designers. Learn from my mistakes! #knittingpodcast

    Today I’m talking about the lessons I’ve learned from mistakes I’ve made, in my first couple of years as a knitting and crochet pattern maker. This should be especially helpful so new knitting and crochet makers looking to get into pattern design business. Topics i cover include gauge swatching, endless frogging, note taking and style consistency. If you are a seasoned designer, I would love it if you shared your lessons learnt too! If you are new here, you should also go back and watch my video from last month, where I shared all the resources, from people to websites, that I have found really helpful since I started designing my own patterns. Don’t forget to subscribe to this channel too, I often share my design journey for new knitting and crochet patterns and may do more of these informative style videos if people find them interesting. For a full round up,

    I have also written up the full episode as a blog post at wanderandcreatewithemma.com/blogs/pattern-design-tips

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  • Tips for designing your first knitting or crochet pattern!
    • 2025-03-16

    Tips for designing your first knitting or crochet pattern!

    If you're looking for tips to help you designing you first knitting or crochet pattern, this video is for you.

    Just beginning your journey into pattern designing? In this video I share all the resources (from people to websites) that I have found useful in my first two years as a knitting and crochet pattern designer. These tools have given me so much guidance, from size grading, consistent pattern writing style and promoting my patterns, that I wanted to share them with you.

    This is the perfect video to help you design and write your first knit or crochet pattern.

    For a full round-up visit the blog post on my website: https://wanderandcreatewithemma.com/blogs/designer-resources

  • The making of the Salt Spring bag collection