Never ask the designer to change the shape of their design for you. Gotcha! ☺️ It was really interesting to get a glimpse at what your work involves. Being new at knitting I didn't have the vaguest clue. I'm already looking forward to your next video.
I am so glad you enjoyed the video. I have quite the back catalog of videos so you might want to go back through some of them and find ones that sound interesting. If you go to the channel page you will even find playlists of things like tutorials that you might find helpful.
@@WatchBarbaraKnit Way ahead of you there. I've watched a number of your videos. You said "watch Barbara knit", so I have! 😉 You've managed to teach me something on a topic I was already familiar with and I'm sorely tempted to join Knitcrate.
As a spatially challenged person this absolutely made my head spin. I'm great with words but to the way my brain works this is some sort of dark art. I'll stick to making the beautiful patterns just as they come, but it's fascinating to get an insight into what goes on behind the scenes. Much respect to you and everyone else who can do this.
Thanks for the video! So encouraging to have the tools to think out design ideas for ourselves and be able to knit what you love . But also insightful into what you wonderful designers are doing when you write patterns for the rest of us. I get really annoyed when i see people begging designers to redesign things for them! Thats so rude. If you want it to be different learn to change it yourself.
I honestly feel the ability to modify to meet your desires is one of the wonderful things about knitting. If something isn't exactly what you want - change it!
I do like these types of videos. I worked out a triangle shawl using 2 companion lace patterns from Barbara Walker but I'm going to look into this software. You are an excellent teacher.
Really enjoyed your video. Fascinating the way you put the patterns in and then the fit. I would love to see more technical videos like this. Thank you. xxJane
As usual You never disappoint! These videos are a wealth of info that I’m very glad you were generous enough to share. There’s so much that goes into designing can’t quite wrap my mind around it yet. I’ll stick to your beautiful designs and perhaps one day I’ll be brave enough to to try my hands at designing myself! Thank You very much Barbara 😌❤️🌹❣️
OMG. Thank you so much for providing a cohesive rebuttal to my family's requests to "tweak" something I've made just for them. I just don't create for family anymore because no one gets how it's not a simple "adjustment", but a complete redesign! This goes for my knitting, my machine embroidery, my sewing... From now on, THIS VIDEO is my response to: "But it's just a different kind of triangle! It's easy!" ("Easy" doesn't mean it's not a lot of work.)
We had someone come into the store wanting us to repair a hole in their machine knitted garment (for free or $5 of course). We explained to them how matching the yarn and color would be very difficult and how the mechanics of achieving what they wanted would be prohibitively time consuming and that no one was going to do it for them. And then they insisted "It is just a little hole". Just because you put the word "just" in front of it doesn't make it easier LOL.
What a great insight! I do tinker with some of the patterns, and I can definitely empathize when a designer is asked to just serve the design in a different shape, it is a whole new project. Some times I succeed in changing one thing, and other times I just know enough to leave things as the designer intended them to be. It is a 🧩 to make a stitch pattern become a garment. Would love to see you do more of these videos. It is very informative and stimulating for the left and right side of the brain. ❤️ 💕
You are so welcome! I am glad you enjoyed the video. I really made this video so that the next time I get an email saying "I like your shawl but really want X shape as opposed to the shape it is. Could you send me the instructions for X shape?"
This was very interesting to watch and just tells me how smart you have to be to design knitwear. It's not that I don't read charts, I just can't seem to get a grasp of them. Maybe it has to do with my mild dyslexia but every time I give charts a go I screw up at some point and my stitch count never adds up. I wish more patters were written up. Thanks for your video and explanation.
It is mystifying to me how everyone's brain works differently. I have had discussions with many knitters with varying levels of dyslexia and it is pretty much a 50/50 split between hate written, love charts vs love written, hate charts. I do my best to include written instructions whenever it is feasible.
Thanks for another deep dive into the realm of pattern creativity and what goes into it. My humble respect for designers like yourself. I personally prefer charts, especially for lace but all that revision was a bit dizzying, lol. Before computers, designing must have been trickier. Yes please, more videos like this!
Hi Barbara absolutely love this video! So great to see there's a design program out there for this that was so interesting! I want to design my own shawl now...🙃
Thanks for the demo! Neat to see! When i chart out a knitting pattern, i do it on graph paper "v" is a knit stitch, "-" is a purl stitch, "o" is a yarn over, "t" is a purl through the back loop,... I started charting without knowing the standard symbols, so most do not match the standard. I will stick to graph paper.
Wow 😳 thank you,you just proved to me I will probably never design a shawl because I don’t think my brain works that way😏 but I will continue to buy your books and patterns 😃👍
Very cool presentation. It was interesting watching the steps you go through to create a new shawl pattern. While you're creating the shawl and using the different stitch graphics from the dictionary, are you also visualizing what that would look like knitted up, or do you create a pattern in the editor and then when you like the way it looks, knit it up and see if you're pleased with those results? Basically asking if you can convert the graphic to an actual knitted stitch pattern in your head as you're designing. Hope that makes sense :) Thanks for sharing.
So I can look at a chart and have a pretty good idea if it is going to "work" on a technical level. And I have a vague idea of what it is going to look like - but I have to knit it up to really see it. I can sort of convert it, but not 100%, sometimes it works out and is so much more than I imagined and sometimes it totally flops LOL.
Very interesting indeed! Thank you so much for your explanations and solutions! I assume the designing software you use is for Windows. Might that be available for an Android tablet as well by any chance? 🤔
@@WatchBarbaraKnit I think I could find out more if I had the exact name and manufacturer of the software to find out if they make it available for Android as well. Thank you, Barbara.
Pi and Half Pi shawls are different beasts altogether. They pack all of their increases onto single rows that are spaced out in a mathematically determined way (or magic, it might be magic). I cannot even begin to explain it because I only halfway understand it myself.
Here's something pretty funny, I have charts in my computer that I don't even remember designing. Like whole shawls fully charted. I'd have to knit them to see what they look like LOL.
Never ask the designer to change the shape of their design for you. Gotcha! ☺️ It was really interesting to get a glimpse at what your work involves. Being new at knitting I didn't have the vaguest clue. I'm already looking forward to your next video.
I am so glad you enjoyed the video. I have quite the back catalog of videos so you might want to go back through some of them and find ones that sound interesting. If you go to the channel page you will even find playlists of things like tutorials that you might find helpful.
@@WatchBarbaraKnit Way ahead of you there. I've watched a number of your videos. You said "watch Barbara knit", so I have! 😉 You've managed to teach me something on a topic I was already familiar with and I'm sorely tempted to join Knitcrate.
As a spatially challenged person this absolutely made my head spin. I'm great with words but to the way my brain works this is some sort of dark art. I'll stick to making the beautiful patterns just as they come, but it's fascinating to get an insight into what goes on behind the scenes. Much respect to you and everyone else who can do this.
We all see the world in different ways - that is what makes talking to others so much fun!
Thanks for the video! So encouraging to have the tools to think out design ideas for ourselves and be able to knit what you love . But also insightful into what you wonderful designers are doing when you write patterns for the rest of us. I get really annoyed when i see people begging designers to redesign things for them! Thats so rude. If you want it to be different learn to change it yourself.
I honestly feel the ability to modify to meet your desires is one of the wonderful things about knitting. If something isn't exactly what you want - change it!
I do like these types of videos. I worked out a triangle shawl using 2 companion lace patterns from Barbara Walker but I'm going to look into this software. You are an excellent teacher.
Thank you so much! Have fun tinkering!
Yep looks like a lot of work. Glad I’ve always just knit shawls as designed. Thank you for the wonderful visual of how it works.
You are so welcome!
How am I not being charged for this valuable information?!!!! Absolutely awesome Barbara thank you so much!
I ask myself that same question sometimes LOL. I am glad it was useful.
Wow! Just wow! Thanks Barbara! Mind blown.
BOOM! LOL ....
Oh my brain 🤯 🤣. A great reference on how to modify projects
Glad it was helpful! Sorry about the brain. ;)
Really enjoyed your video. Fascinating the way you put the patterns in and then the fit.
I would love to see more technical videos like this.
Thank you. xxJane
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
You’re one of my fav youtubers!!! i love your channel sm ❤️
Thank you so much!!
As usual You never disappoint! These videos are a wealth of info that I’m very glad you were generous enough to share.
There’s so much that goes into designing can’t quite wrap my mind around it yet.
I’ll stick to your beautiful designs and perhaps one day I’ll be brave enough to to try my hands at designing myself!
Thank You very much Barbara 😌❤️🌹❣️
Sometimes it is overwhelming to me too and I just want to knit an already written pattern LOL.
OMG. Thank you so much for providing a cohesive rebuttal to my family's requests to "tweak" something I've made just for them. I just don't create for family anymore because no one gets how it's not a simple "adjustment", but a complete redesign! This goes for my knitting, my machine embroidery, my sewing... From now on, THIS VIDEO is my response to: "But it's just a different kind of triangle! It's easy!" ("Easy" doesn't mean it's not a lot of work.)
We had someone come into the store wanting us to repair a hole in their machine knitted garment (for free or $5 of course). We explained to them how matching the yarn and color would be very difficult and how the mechanics of achieving what they wanted would be prohibitively time consuming and that no one was going to do it for them. And then they insisted "It is just a little hole". Just because you put the word "just" in front of it doesn't make it easier LOL.
Wow, just wow. That's a lot of work batman. I do so enjoy your deep dives into things.
Glad you enjoy it!
So much fun taking a sneak peek into how you create!!
I take a very logical approach to a creative endeavor LOL.
What a great insight! I do tinker with some of the patterns, and I can definitely empathize when a designer is asked to just serve the design in a different shape, it is a whole new project.
Some times I succeed in changing one thing, and other times I just know enough to leave things as the designer intended them to be. It is a 🧩 to make a stitch pattern become a garment.
Would love to see you do more of these videos. It is very informative and stimulating for the left and right side of the brain. ❤️ 💕
It is a puzzle and I think that is one of the reasons I enjoy it! I will think on how I could make more videos in this arena.
Thank you, for taking us along on how you would design. Loved it!
You are so welcome!
I worked with a sewing pattern software program at work. It was one of my favorite parts of my job!
Very cool!
Great information,way over my knit grade but thank you! Whew lot of work to design, I appreciate patterns SO much more!
You are so welcome! I am glad you enjoyed the video. I really made this video so that the next time I get an email saying "I like your shawl but really want X shape as opposed to the shape it is. Could you send me the instructions for X shape?"
This was very interesting to watch and just tells me how smart you have to be to design knitwear. It's not that I don't read charts, I just can't seem to get a grasp of them. Maybe it has to do with my mild dyslexia but every time I give charts a go I screw up at some point and my stitch count never adds up. I wish more patters were written up. Thanks for your video and explanation.
It is mystifying to me how everyone's brain works differently. I have had discussions with many knitters with varying levels of dyslexia and it is pretty much a 50/50 split between hate written, love charts vs love written, hate charts. I do my best to include written instructions whenever it is feasible.
Thanks for another deep dive into the realm of pattern creativity and what goes into it. My humble respect for designers like yourself. I personally prefer charts, especially for lace but all that revision was a bit dizzying, lol. Before computers, designing must have been trickier. Yes please, more videos like this!
I didn't design before computers so I don't really know - but I do know that there was a LOT of graph paper used LOL. I'm glad you liked the video.
Your videos are just so helpful! Thank you for your channel!
Thank you so much, it is great to hear that they are helping knitters!
Great program!!! I’d been waiting for such a content for several monthes
Thanks so much Barbara!. this software looks so great ! I gonna look for it.
Glad it was helpful!
This. Was. Fascinating!
I am so glad you enjoyed it!
That was awesome!. I have ideas rolling around in my head now that I will have to get out on paper/software etc.
That is awesome to hear. I can't wait to see what you dream up.
Enjoyable vid. Thank you, Barbara
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Barbara absolutely love this video! So great to see there's a design program out there for this that was so interesting! I want to design my own shawl now...🙃
Thank you so much! I can't wait to see what you design.
Wow! I am kind of speechless right now.
LOL. It can be a bit much.
Absolutely fascinating! This makes me want to finally get some charting software and start designing.
Go for it!
Thank you for the information. I really enjoyed watching your design process. Rachel S.
You are so welcome! I don't know if it's anything like other designers processes ... but somehow it makes sense to me.
Thanks for the demo! Neat to see!
When i chart out a knitting pattern, i do it on graph paper "v" is a knit stitch, "-" is a purl stitch, "o" is a yarn over, "t" is a purl through the back loop,... I started charting without knowing the standard symbols, so most do not match the standard. I will stick to graph paper.
Everyone's brain works in different ways and I totally understand how something tactile would work better for you. My brain gets computers better.
@WatchBarbaraKnit i am LOUSY with the mouse, better at typing.
Another very informative video from you! Thank You!
My pleasure!
Wow 😳 thank you,you just proved to me I will probably never design a shawl because I don’t think my brain works that way😏 but I will continue to buy your books and patterns 😃👍
Everyone approaches design in different ways, this is just how I do it. But I am happy to keep writing patterns if you'll keep knitting them!
Very cool presentation. It was interesting watching the steps you go through to create a new shawl pattern.
While you're creating the shawl and using the different stitch graphics from the dictionary, are you also visualizing what that would look like knitted up, or do you create a pattern in the editor and then when you like the way it looks, knit it up and see if you're pleased with those results? Basically asking if you can convert the graphic to an actual knitted stitch pattern in your head as you're designing. Hope that makes sense :)
Thanks for sharing.
So I can look at a chart and have a pretty good idea if it is going to "work" on a technical level. And I have a vague idea of what it is going to look like - but I have to knit it up to really see it. I can sort of convert it, but not 100%, sometimes it works out and is so much more than I imagined and sometimes it totally flops LOL.
Thank you, very instructive and interesting. But ... Oh, Lordy! This is why I don't mind paying for completed patterns.
Very interesting indeed! Thank you so much for your explanations and solutions!
I assume the designing software you use is for Windows. Might that be available for an Android tablet as well by any chance? 🤔
I honestly don't know if it works on a tablet, my guess is no.
@@WatchBarbaraKnit I think I could find out more if I had the exact name and manufacturer of the software to find out if they make it available for Android as well. Thank you, Barbara.
@@FreyjaHighUpNorse The information is provided in the description noted below the video, but here’s the link: www.envisioknit.com/
@@WatchBarbaraKnit I just contacted Jane to find out. I let you know.
A little bit "I can do that!" and a little bit "Woah - too much for me!." Ah, me. The eternal battle between inspiration and initiative.
Right now, for me, initiative has taken a vacation LOL.
I hand often struggled with adding a stitch pattern to a shawl. Does this also include pi and half-pi shawls?
Pi and Half Pi shawls are different beasts altogether. They pack all of their increases onto single rows that are spaced out in a mathematically determined way (or magic, it might be magic). I cannot even begin to explain it because I only halfway understand it myself.
Wouldn't it be fun to try to knit your doodled chart shown here, where you don't know how it'll look? 😉
Here's something pretty funny, I have charts in my computer that I don't even remember designing. Like whole shawls fully charted. I'd have to knit them to see what they look like LOL.
What charting software do you use?
never mind, I found it.
I love problems that solve themselves LOL! Have fun!
Omg, I want that software?
I'm a big fan of it - it is called EnvisionKnit.
Replace that ? with a !