We all learn the proverb “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” as children. There is a lot of musing time as one is recuperating from surgery. It has reminded me of some projects that got put aside because I couldn’t figure out some aspect of them, or I didn’t have the time…
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A Deeper Look. More to Love in Action Charts
There is more to love in Action Charts, but for some knitters they are just too different to comprehend at first glance. Last week I posted about Action Charts, but at over 800 words I felt I needed to continue in another post to give this topic the best explanation. Symbols and Why I Have…
Look of Love: You’ll Heart Action Charts
I’ve been making a lot of Action charts lately, and as I’ve been doing it I’ve made some notes on things to mention about the look of Action charts. A Look at Action Charts If you want to know why I do this, please read this. If this method of charting doesn’t work for you,…
Refreshing News! New Patterns on the Horizon
Refreshing News from Jill Wolcott Knits! After a hiatus of a couple of months, I’m doing a blog, and releasing new patterns! Plus, I’m teaching a class on Yarnpreneur.com. If you’ve been following me, you know that I overthink almost everything. I decided to rework my pattern layout about two years ago, and we are…
Outreach, Reaching Out, & Building Community
Outreach, reaching out, and building community are hard things. It is easy to want to do them, but more difficult to know what to do, and even harder to implement. Outreach to Jill Wolcott Knits® I’m often surprised when I do some outreach at the response I get—and also that I don’t get. You just…
Pattern Preferences, the Survey!
Pattern Preferences, the survey, closed yesterday. As always, I learned interesting things, some of which I thought you might be interested in knowing as well. I recognized a lot of the people who took the survey, and not surprisingly, some were other designers and tech editors who are taking or have taken courses from me….
Complicated Eyelet Patterns Pose Shaping Challenges
The structure of an eyelet pattern can make it a more complicated eyelet than it seems in working it or looking at it. Once shaping begins, it is clear that keeping it looking good while shaping was harder than it I thought. I got an email from my sample knitter with a problem. Her photo showed…
Charting Perspective: Whose Clarity?
I need to do another post about my charting perspective. I know I sit [slightly] outside of the mainstream, but from my perspective my thinking is perfectly normal and it doesn’t occur to me that it is not what everyone else is thinking. I was more than a little taken aback this week to find out…
Getting Energized About . . .
Do you ever have that feeling of getting energized just by touching or seeing something you really love? This feeling often makes me move projects into active status even though I need to work on other things. Many of my projects get attention because they make me feel this way, but other things, which I…
Seed Stitch Talk Moves to Charts
More Seed Stitch talk as I need to get out of my studio early today. If I were a better person I would have written this last week, but I didn’t, so I am dashing this off now! This is going to be about charting Seed Stitch. But let’s start with my first memories of Seed stitch,…
Shaping: Obstacles in Knitting
If you write garment patterns as I do, shaping is just part of the deal. I have a hard time visualizing “reverse shaping for the other side”, so I have to write it out for both sides. Plus, I like to mirror things, which sometimes makes the two sides slightly different. When I started writing…
Charts Match Written
Charts Match Written: Obstacles in Knitting I’ve written lots of words on the Obstacles in Knitting road to get to Charts Match Written! All the things I’ve written about were on the initial list of notes I made when I decided to do this, but I think charts match written was the trigger. Charts Match Written: Overview The stitch pattern dictionaries that…
