The development phase is one of the longest stages of the design process because it’s when you start transmuting ideas from imagination into reality.
With knitting (and crochet too), you’re aiming to speak with colour, pattern and texture; know that if you can find the words, you can find the stitches. Only the medium of communication has changed: you are learning and using a different language, that’s all.
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FN2N, part 4 | Design Process 2: Innovation
If inspiration is finding your voice, then innovation and development is the first stage of learning how to speak. Without good, well-developed ideas, you will have nothing. After all, you’re a designer!
FN2N, part 3 | Design Process 1: Inspiration
Design is an interdisciplinary subject with care and communication at its heart; the most powerful, well-loved and transformative designs connect humans together. This is a bit of a series within a series discussing the stages of design process, beginning with design inspiration.
Unpicking the Stitches: How I designed the Westcott shawl, part 2
Last post, I talked about how I conceived the idea for the Westcott shawl. This time, I’m sharing the realisation process with you: how the idea for the design became a tangible, corporal garment and pattern. There’s always at least a little trepidation when you cast on the first few stitches or make the first…
Unpicking the Stitches: How I designed the Westcott shawl, part 1
Please welcome my latest design for Knitting magazine: the Westcott shawl! This reminder of early summer crept up on me nicely. I worked on this back in June-July, which is a normal lead time for commissions like this. However, it also means that you have ample time to move on with life and get stuck…