For me, grading is a design solution with a technical outcome and a practical application. Here are three ways of applying creative problem solving to the process of grading knitting patterns.
Three thoughts about grading
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.
FN2N, part 2 | The Case for Professional Pattern Grading
In which I talk about how pattern graders will professionalise and safeguard the future of knitting patterns
FN2N, Part 1 | The Three Lions of Knitting Patterns: The designer, the technical editor, and the grader
This is the first post in the From Needle to Needle series, which covers grading and the pattern production process as a whole from the designer’s standpoint. It’s the journey that an idea takes from a designer’s imagination to the
From Needle to Needle: Introducing a new blog series
Introducing a new blog series, in which I discuss the journey that an idea takes from a designer’s imagination to the home of a knitter – needle to needle