As a fellow knitter, I know how frustrating a confusing pattern can be. My goal is to work with you as a dedicated technical editor, ensuring your final instructions do justice to your original design. I focus on refining the layout, verifying the numbers, and streamlining the directions so your pattern is easy to follow from start to finish. This essential step gives your customers a smooth experience and lets them focus on the joy of knitting your design.
Services
As standard I will check:
- Size and Fit: Ensuring sizes align with expectations and schematics, and all sizing information is accurate.
- Yarn Details: Verifying that all yarn information is complete and correct.
- Gauge: Confirming clarity and presence of gauge information.
- Needles and Notions: Checking accuracy and consistency of needle and notions details.
- Abbreviations: Ensuring a comprehensive list of abbreviations is included and consistently applied throughout.
- Charts/Pattern Panels: Checking accuracy of charts/pattern panels, including abbreviations.
- Grammar and Spelling: Scanning for grammar, spelling and punctuation errors to maintain clarity.
- Completeness: Verifying all necessary parts, including assembly instructions, are included.
- Image Accuracy: Confirming the accuracy of any included images relative to the pattern.
- Mathematical Accuracy: Checking mathematical calculations, such as stitch counts after increases and decreases.
- Language and Terminology Consistency: Ensuring overall consistency in language and terms.
- Pattern Flow: Assessing the pattern's flow for user-friendliness.
Optional Extras
- Adding metric/imperial measurements.
- Generating written instructions from your chart(s).
- Generating a style sheet/template from your pattern.
- Working with you to create a style sheet before you start the pattern writing process.