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How to Improve Community Metrics with Analytics and Data from Your Community (featuring Circle's new Analytic Hub)
Struggling to troubleshoot your community? New data and analytics can help us identify and solve community problems easier and quicker.
Why Circle.so is the Best Membership Platform (in my opinion)
Finding a membership platform that is absolutely perfect is impossible, but in my mind there is one membership platform that stands out.
25 Business Tools for Crochet and Knitting Pattern Designers
Here's a list of 25 business and office tools I use regularly as a knitting pattern designer and business mentor
Featured Knitting Pattern Designer: Carmen (Kam) of Hand Knit by Kam
Join us for the featured designer of the month, Kam, the knitting pattern designer behind Hand Knit by Kam. In this live chat, we talk...
How to Decrease Tech Editing Costs: Your Knitting Pattern Editing Checklist
Wanting to decrease your tech editing costs but still publish high quality knitting patterns? The key is to pre-edit your pattern...
A Knitting Pattern Designer's Guide to Generating New Design Ideas
Struggling to create new ideas that are fun, intriguing, fit your audience, and aren't just another version of something you've already...
Featured Knitting Pattern Designer: Hannah Thiessen of Slow Knitting, By Hand Serial + Hannah Belle
Join us for the first featured designer of the month, Hannah Thiessen, the knitting pattern designer behind Hannah Belle Knits, author of...
A Knitting Pattern Designer's Guide to Collaborating with Indie Yarn Dyers
As a new knitting pattern designer, it's often a dream to think of collaborating yarn dyers. I remember feeling like I'd be a "real"...
5 Things Your Test Knitters Want to Tell You as the Knitting Pattern Designer
As I was collecting information from my Instagram audience about their perspectives and opinions on test knitting and tech editing, I...
A Knitting Pattern Designer's Guide to Test Knitting: What, Why, and How Pattern Testing Works
When you've finished writing your knitting pattern, you've only finished the first step of the process. Often the following steps, where...
Weekly Knit Chit Chat: Hang Out & Chat with a Knitting Pattern Designer Each Week
Do you like to hang out and interact with fellow knitters? Do you enjoy casual conversation that is always sprinkled with knitting chat?...
A Knitting Pattern Designer's Guide to Tech Editing: What, Why, and How Pattern Tech Editing Works
When you've finished writing your knitting pattern, you've only finished the first step of the process. Often the following steps, where...
Knitting Tech Editor vs Test Knitters: Why Do I Need Both for My Knitting Patterns?
When you've finished writing your knitting pattern, you've only finished the first step of the process. Often the following steps, where...
Why You Can't Just Do What Everyone Else is Doing When Selling Knitting Patterns
We're used to conforming to the expectations of society, family, friends, all of the people that surround us... and so it can be...
How to Design Knitting Patterns with a Process that Works for You
You have your knitting pattern design idea, but you're feeling stuck. Where do you start? What process should you follow? Does it matter?...
Using Story to Connect with Your Audience as a Knitting Pattern Designer
Have you ever thought about how much stories connect us as human beings? I've been thinking about it a lot lately. We are each unique...
Community for Knit and Crochet Pattern Designers Focusing on Collaboration + Education
Have you heard about the Design Circle?! It's a brand new group that I just launched for knit and crochet pattern designers. Our knitting...
What Do I Need to Include in My Knitting Pattern Design?
You have your design idea, and you've started to write out your knitting pattern. But suddenly you're at a standstill: what all do you...
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