Knitting Design Books and how Test Knitting Works // Casual Friday 2-40

This podcast discusses test knitting and sample knitting, and how/why designers use test knitters and sample knitters as part of the design-to-published-pattern process. Later in the podcast is Part 2 of my knitting library tour. I show you the books on my shelves that help me in the design process, most of which are aimed at knitters looking to design garments for themselves.

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To jump directly to one of the topics, click on the adjacent time-stamped link
Introduction 0:00
What is test knitting: 1:21
Knitting Library Tour, Part 2: Design Books: 18:40

The books I mentioned in this podcast:
Ann Budd's series of books
The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns https://amzn.to/2B3U7L3
The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns https://amzn.to/321ekNz
The Knitter's Handy Book of Top-Down Sweaters https://amzn.to/326nqsq

Knitting Without Tears, by Elizabeth Zimmermann https://amzn.to/2IHkLhf

Knitting from the Top by Barbara G. Walker https://amzn.to/2on15IE

Knitting in the Old Way (2nd edition) by Priscilla A. Gibson-Roberts https://amzn.to/2IHlgb7

Sweater Design in Plain English, by Maggie Righetti with Terri Shaw (this is a newer edition than the one I have): https://amzn.to/2OETZtp

Designing Knitwear by Deborah Newton (newer edition than mine): https://amzn.to/2OCRJmt

Little Red in the City, by Ysolda Teague https://amzn.to/33nqD7b

Mother-Daughter Knits, by Sally Melville and Caddy Melville Ledbetter https://amzn.to/313uEfA

Knitting Pattern Essentials, by Sally Melville https://amzn.to/31525OL

The Science of Sexy by Bradley Bayou https://amzn.to/327OSpF

Seven Things That Can "Make or Break" a Sweater, by Margaret Fisher https://amzn.to/2q3GnxQ

Beginner's Guide to Writing Knitting Patterns (2016) by Kate Atherley (appears to be the same book with a slightly different cover --and different publisher --than the book I showed, which was Pattern Writing for Knit Designers (2014,2015), by Kate Atherley) https://amzn.to/2VwWob6


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