Aimée Hill – Knitting Tech Editor
For love of commas and stitches.
Tech Editing Services
Leave designing to the knitwear designers and the editing to the tech editors! Here are my core services that will upgrade your pattern to a piece of art.
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The base! The standard service every knitwear designer needs before sending their pattern off to test knitters. Get all the maths behaving, the grammar in check, and any confusing language ironed out. Available in UK and US English – in case you prefer “math”!
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Knitting is all about creating the most beautiful garment specifically tailored to the body of the knitter. You can’t write a pattern that caters to every feature and quirk of every body. But you can give your knitters a helping hand with inclusive pattern grading.
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Some knitters use charts. Some prefer written patterns. Either way, leave the tricky translation to me. With this add on service, your pattern will come fitted with a chart (and its key) and/or easy to follow written instructions.
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Gorgeous knitwear designs deserve gorgeous knitting pattern layouts. Your pattern should be steeped in all that is you. Choose this service for a standard pattern layout with your personal branding as well as low vision and accessible versions.
Editor. Knitter. Creator.
Knitting has a way of completely capturing you and taking over your entire life. That’s why I do what I do. When I’m not knitting, I’m thinking about knitting. My greatest accomplishment is being the type of knitter than buys yarn per design or pattern. Though some of you have stashes that make me second think my ethos!
After years of editing fantasy (passion) and medical journals (paying the bills), I swapped out academia for tech editing knitting patterns. And oh, how it has been similar. But now the maths I’m checking is your lovely stitch counts and the words I’m pondering about the clarity of are little manuals for stunning knitwear.
