tips for designing knitting patterns | lily kate makes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2022
- Answering by far my most frequently asked question - WHERE DO I START? My tips for how to start designing your own knitting patterns, from the best type of sweater to start with, to the most useful Excel functions for grading patterns into different sizes, and book recommendations.
I filmed this video in a different room of the house to usual, and did not realise how much closer to the camera I was than in my normal setup 😅 I won't sit so unnecessarily close next time!
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i just designed my first sweater and i've been asked for the pattern by multiple people so im doing my best to write it out, make charts and grade it, but its giving me such a headache. the body is knit flat, from front to back, and is essentially a big chevron panel (with increases in the middle, and decreases on the side) with a continuous cable+lace pattern throughout, so it has a V appearance. there's short row shaping at the shoulders so the pattern shifts from being on the bias to being vertical, and the sleeves have the pattern repeat as well. i've got to be honest, this entire thing was a mess and a half to design when i started (but it was worth it, it fits great), but grading it for different sizes seems impossible. This video is a blessing and i want to thank you for giving us tips and tricks, it is very appreciated and encouraging
wow, it is beautiful. Looking forward to the pattern. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Lily, this was super helpful! Dabbling a bit to the designing process at the moment and I could definitely use several of your tips & tricks!☺️☺️
So glad it was helpful! Can't wait to see what you come up with 😊
I loved this video. It was very interesting to hear what your thoughts are about designing. Great advice
thank you! Glad it was useful 😊
This was wonderful! I've just crossed the line from only knitting quadrilaterals to trying my hand at socks and sweaters. I finished my first top-down sweater and am learning how even the trying on as it goes part is a learning process. I just got a bunch of books on knitting bottom up ganseys and am really looking forward to frogging my slightly wonky first sweater in an attempt to make a less-wonky gansey. All of which is to say I'm a long way from designing, but am quite happy learning and making design decisions on my own as I go. You're a real inspiration!
Glad you liked it! Thanks so much. Sounds like you're making speedy progress in your knitting journey! I'm sure both ganseys will be lovely, the slightly-wonky one and the next!
I thought this was great. I love book recommendations and I think you have had to knit quite a few patterns before venturing out on your own. I am a newer knitter of three years about.. and I realize how much you have to try and frog to understand things. Great advice and thanks for the time, Kimberly
thank you! I agree, knitting a variety of patterns first can introduce you to the possibilities of fabrics / details you can create 😊 Frogging is definitely a huge part of the process!
Could you do a spreadsheet tutorial? I have searched for some nitty gritty ones but yet to find any.
This is so helpful❤ thank you!
glad it was useful! ❤
Your tips are awesome. Appreciate it very much. BTW the blouse on you looks amazing. Any tutorial? Thks very 😅😊
love this its super helpful!! I am currently trying to design a dress and really like the top you're wearing in this - can I ask what type of stitch did you use at the lower interface between the sheer mohair and DK yoke? it has produced a lovely thick stitch which is exactly what I'm looking for!!!
Hi Rosie, glad the video was helpful! It's not so much a stitch pattern as a a tuck technique that I use in a few of my patterns 😊
Thanks to you Lily - though I am an old knitter - your tricks is very helpful. ( done these whole garments and made up the whole pattern - just to realise that nothing was good😣You are always interesting to listen to.😻
I’m happy to find a knitter say that tension changes throughout a project, no matter what.
My question is, do you then frog back the work? And for pattern writing, do you still write the change into the pattern or do you write it based on the swatch tension?
Last but not least, you’ve mentioned you frog your work, sometimes, doesn’t this wear out your yarn?
It's inevitable! But as a knitter you need to keep an eye on it, rather than just saying 'well my swatch matched the gauge therefore this must do' and ending up with an item way too big or small 🙈 I write the pattern based on the average tension, and always work this out based on the whole garment width, rather than a 4 inch section. So if I know the bust measures X inches and I had Y stitches at the bust, I work the tension out as Y/X. This is far more accurate than measuring a small section that could be influenced by the weight of the garment pulling on it etc.
I frog my work often! Only when yarn has been frogged manyyyy times does it become unusable. It can just be re-knit and any lumpy bits will even out after blocking 😊
@@lilykatemakes8358 that makes sense. Thank you for your feedback!
This was a really interesting video. I'm not sure if I'll ever design a whole garment for myself but I think a lot of these tips and tricks could apply to modifying existing patterns. I do have one question. Do you know of any good resources for upping my Excel game, which is something I want and need to do? Thanks Jo😀
thank you! You're right, definitely applicable to modifications, too! I'm afraid I don't have any personal recommendations for resources - I've usually just ended up on random websites / YT channels after googling 'how to do X in Excel' tbh!
@@lilykatemakes8358 Thanks. I'll get googling. 😀
Do you have a tutorial step by step for your creations?
My patterns include instructions for every single step, and can be downloaded from Ravelry. And there are technique videos on my channel, but filming entire step by step videos would not be practical 😊
Just to change, another useless video, extremely verbose and full of obviousness. 35min. spent, to express concepts and infos that required max of 5min. Not to mention that she shows some books (4 of which are well known to most knitters, but in any case..) without inserting the bibliography in the video description, and this is something that YOU MUST NOT DO, if you show a book in a video then you have to write the title and the author in the description, another of those unwritten but obvious rules that many people don't understand they have to follow.