Programmes and Patterns: Or, What Bugs Us About Knitting
99.9% of the time there will be bugs or glitches somewhere in a knitting pattern. Here are some ways for knitwear designers to manage them.
Favourite Book: Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
I love the empathetic focus on humanity, and designing products and systems that work for the people using them, not the other way around.
Knitwear Design 101: Introduction to Surface Pattern
The first of a blog series explaining the application of tessellation symmetry and pattern repeats to knitwear design.
The Shape of Things to Come
The size the person chooses is a starting point, not a box to fit into.
The End of From Needle to Needle | Resources Round-Up, and a Big Thank You
This week I want to say a big thank you to the knitting folk who’ve shown their support for From Needle to Needle, and to provide an index of all the resources mentioned throughout the series.
FN2N, Part 8 | Towards a Caring Economy of Knitting
In my previous post I detailed some approaches to sustainable working practices that support designers and makers. This week I will step further back from knitting and crochet patterns to discuss how clothing production needs to get away from the market economy, and what that might mean for knitters, crocheters, and other clothes makers.
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