Author: Melissa Metzbower

If you’re thinking you need to look into hiring a technical editor for your patterns, but you don’t know how to find the right one, this is the blog post for you! I’ve been through a couple of editors and have learned a few tricks I’d love to share with you! What type of patterns

I’m gonna start this post by admitting that I haven’t always used a Tech Editor. Yep! You heard me correctly! Waaaay back in the day, when I first started designing, I honestly had no clue that such wonderful people existed! Fast forward a couple of years, and I still didn’t know exactly what they did

I’m gonna start this post by admitting that I haven’t always used a Tech Editor. Yep! You heard me correctly! Waaaay back in the day, when I first started designing, I honestly had no clue that such wonderful people existed! Fast forward a couple of years, and I still didn’t know exactly what they did

The latest pattern in the State Socks collection is now available! West Virginia is knit toe-up with twisted stitches to represent the windy back roads and a Fair Isle pattern depicting the forests, mountains, and blue skies. I had lots of suggestions from cabins by the creek to the New River Gorge Bridge to Mothman

One of the things that Tech Editors look for in your pattern is consistency. Put simply, that means, for example, that you use either “knit” or “k” consistently throughout the pattern. It is tough on a knitter, especially a new knitter, to have to bounce back and forth between abbreviations and whole words. Consistency also