Knitting Design What is a Style Sheet and How is it Used

[@cindyrowits1536]

WOW! And I thought keeping track of what I knit in order to write it up or duplicate it was tedious! Thank you for again, sharing the behind the scenes work.

[@WatchBarbaraKnit]

Tedious is a very good way to put it LOL

[@sierrapelona]

Thank you for considering how font choices impact people with dyslexia. I appreciate your thoughtfulness.

[@WatchBarbaraKnit]

I try to abide by the "When you know better, do better" adage. I don't know all of the ways I could help but when I stumble across it or someone points it out to me I do my best to accommodate within my ability. There are some issues that I've looked into that I wish I could do but they can be so cost and/or time prohibitive that they would pretty much put me out of business. But where I can, I do.

[@kimoconnor8487]

Thank-you kindly for your insights. I love the organization of consistency of your style sheet ideas

[@WatchBarbaraKnit]

Thank you! I probably think about this stuff too much LOL

[@DawnBurn]

I really appreciate seeing both your personal Style Sheet and the 3rd party Style Sheet. I hadn't thought about the fact that some of the patterns I have purchased are from yarn dyers, and some are from the designer and how much that makes a difference in terms of instructions. I also really appreciate you hopefully helping future designers make better patterns for me to use.

[@WatchBarbaraKnit]

I'm super excited that I was able to make you think about things in a different way. Independent vs third party patterns can be hugely different for the same designer.

[@angelinacrafts5385]

Would love to hear about the tech editors job. Thanks for the behind the scenes peaks.

[@WatchBarbaraKnit]

Hmm, I will see what I can do about that. Might even be able to interview a tech editor!

[@neamhai]

Your description just makes me so thankful / grateful that there are people willing to go to the trouble of creating consistent, thoughtful patterns! I've had so much fun making up some of my own patterns since I got the charting software, but I would be hard put to getting any of them into a form for anyone else. So many of my choices are how _I_ like to write and format, and it seems many of my preferences are in complete opposition to those that would work for more people. (Give me as many serifs as you can and italicize everything!) Which, then, does make me curious - are there cases where someone creates the basics of the pattern, but gives it to another designer to make into a publishable pattern? (For me it would just be "you like this? Here - take it - just mention that I started it". But, I suppose in general there might be more of a complicated business contract.)

[@WatchBarbaraKnit]

Writing something that you can follow and understand vs writing for other is a huge difference. I would totally do what you do if it was just me LOL!

[@WatchBarbaraKnit]

So, what you're essentially talking about does happen in the industry and it is pretty much the equivalent of "ghost writing" a pattern. You might be surprised the different ways that the patterns end up happening and the methods from "back in the day" vs now are very different.