I do love your plaid colour work especially your colour choices. Good luck with your garment creation. I do see some designers invite those whose size is not currently included in a pattern to contact them and they will grade/offer the pattern to be test.
Thank you for the compliment - I'm having a lot of fun with the plaid colour work right now :-) I would only contact designers now when the 'invite' is clearly in writing (on their pattern page/website). I have seen some designers like Fiber Tales, where they haven't managed to find testers for the big sizes on some of their patterns, have stated clearly they welcome being contacted if a larger size isn't graded and the person is willing to test knit for them. I really appreciate and admire her for that and she is quickly becoming one of my favourite designers. But not the designers I mentioned in the video unfortunately. I've approached two (quite big) designers now about patterns that I loved the look of and both ignored me. For one of them I contacted them multiple times (a bit like a stalker - I really liked the pattern!) before finally getting a reply because I asked publicly on their Instagram and they couldn't ignore then. That isn't the way it should be and I didn't like doing that to them so won't be contacting any designer now no matter how much I love their pattern, if it isn't in my size (unless of course they've clearly stated they welcome being contacted on their pattern page). I don't want to force anybody into a position they clearly don't want to be in. I've seen one of these designers reply to a comment about one of the patterns I loved but that isn't size inclusive, and their response is that 'it is difficult to translate the design to larger sizes and still keep a beautiful fit' and they currently have no intention of catering to larger sizes. Maybe it's true that they can't make their garments for larger sizes without compromising the fit of them. But I've learnt my lesson about not contacting designers about making larger sizes unless they clearly invite in writing.
Love your videos!
Those new Nutiden colours look gorgeous! Can't wait for the public shop update. Also love all your plaid colour work charts, the cowl looks stunning ☺
Thank you so much!
I do love your plaid colour work especially your colour choices. Good luck with your garment creation. I do see some designers invite those whose size is not currently included in a pattern to contact them and they will grade/offer the pattern to be test.
Thank you for the compliment - I'm having a lot of fun with the plaid colour work right now :-)
I would only contact designers now when the 'invite' is clearly in writing (on their pattern page/website). I have seen some designers like Fiber Tales, where they haven't managed to find testers for the big sizes on some of their patterns, have stated clearly they welcome being contacted if a larger size isn't graded and the person is willing to test knit for them. I really appreciate and admire her for that and she is quickly becoming one of my favourite designers. But not the designers I mentioned in the video unfortunately. I've approached two (quite big) designers now about patterns that I loved the look of and both ignored me. For one of them I contacted them multiple times (a bit like a stalker - I really liked the pattern!) before finally getting a reply because I asked publicly on their Instagram and they couldn't ignore then. That isn't the way it should be and I didn't like doing that to them so won't be contacting any designer now no matter how much I love their pattern, if it isn't in my size (unless of course they've clearly stated they welcome being contacted on their pattern page). I don't want to force anybody into a position they clearly don't want to be in. I've seen one of these designers reply to a comment about one of the patterns I loved but that isn't size inclusive, and their response is that 'it is difficult to translate the design to larger sizes and still keep a beautiful fit' and they currently have no intention of catering to larger sizes. Maybe it's true that they can't make their garments for larger sizes without compromising the fit of them. But I've learnt my lesson about not contacting designers about making larger sizes unless they clearly invite in writing.