I can literally see the chart in my mind when I imagine what I want to create. I know it is intimidating to many, but the truth is that charting is a HUGE time saver. My note process is twofold: I write down what I do in words, but I also draw the stitchwork. So while tutorials saying do this, then do this are great and can often do the trick, for garments with sizing and items with design variations I would need to go beyond that with solid pattern writing. As my designs grew in difficulty, my pattern writing skills were becoming more developed as well. But they got the job done: to tell people how to make what I made. My first patterns were more like tutorials and not at all technical. Revolutionary right? But that's all a pattern really is: instructions to tell someone else how to achieve the same result you did. It is so simple it is almost mind blowing. Make it a tutorial and just tell people what to do. To begin, I always go back to something Drew Emborsky ( AKA The Crochet Dude) told me when I was first starting to write my own patterns and overwhelmed and clueless: Start simple. Now I am sitting here typing and thinking, I wish I had saved my texts with Vincent so I could paste them here for ease. I was also helping two other friends begin writing patterns this week and since I know so many ask about writing patterns and bringing ideas to life, I thought why not share my process with everyone and make it a blog post.
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