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I’ve been a bit lagging on this, but I think I’m ready to look for test knitters for this pattern. I’ve read a lot about this process, but I’m still not sure about it. But I figure I would just try and see how it goes.
Here is the link to my yarnpond for anyone interested!
So I recently started making patterns and I’m learning a lot about the process. For my first few patterns, I didn’t even know about tech editing. Later on, when I learned about it, I was still hesitant about working with one. My main reason was the cost. I had a hard time justifying paying for a tech editor when I wasn’t planning on making money from my patterns.
While working on this current pattern, I started to seriously consider working with a tech editor. I still debated on it for a long time, but eventually, I contacted one. And then I figured I might as well get my old patterns tech edited too, and while we’re at it, let’s work on a style sheet as well. I also contacted a crochet tech editor to get my old crochet patterns looked at too.
Working with a tech editor was an eye-opening experience. Both of them caught things that I totally missed even after I’ve looked over my patterns so many times. I can understand what they say about how you can’t tech edit your own work. I’ve gone back and updated all my old patterns and now I feel more at ease knowing my patterns are free of errors. In the end, I’m glad I decided to work with tech editors.
By the way, how did I mess up this badly on these conversions?
I will be looking into working with test knitters soon. Stay tuned to see what I learn about this process!
There’s this sweater I’ve wanted to knit for years now. I bought the yarn for it a while ago, but I’ve put off getting started because I didn’t wanted to wind the hanks of yarn into balls. I finally got around to winding them (two out of five of them, anyway) and knit up a gauge swatch the other day.
It actually took me two days to knit this swatch because like winding yarn, it’s not something I enjoy doing. My gauge is a bit off, but I also didn’t wash or block it. Usually, when I go to check my gauge, I don’t like to bind off. It seems like a waste of the yarn to me. I usually just end up unraveling it to knit with it.
I started knitting the sweater and I’m excited to see the progress! I’ve actually made this sweater before for a friend and I had a lot of fun with it.
Fingers crossed that my sweater size ends up close enough.
I have this pair of socks that I bought years ago. I like the colors, but it didn’t quite fit that well, so I don’t wear them much. I saw that there was only one seam by the toe, so I decided to unravel them so I can use the yarn to make something else (probably socks).
I started by cutting along that seam. There were a bunch of short pieces of yarn there.
Eventually, I got to the main part and was able to unravel the whole thing. This one had a piece of shorter yarn at the beginning. There was also a long piece of elastic thread in the cuff. I saved it but I don’t know if I will use it again.
Once I unraveled the second sock, I steamed the yarn to get it to straighten out a bit.
And finally, I twisted them both into hanks for storage until I have a pattern for them.
I was a bit nervous before unraveling them because I had never unraveled anything that wasn’t made by me before. But it went okay, I think. Now to see if I can knit a pair of socks from this yarn. I have never knitted socks before either. Stay tuned!
When I set up my Ravelry store, there was a thing about paying VAT. I just went with the default: customer covers VAT and didn’t think much of it. Last month, someone in Denmark bought one of my patterns and I saw that they ended up paying $0.75 more. When I realized it’s for VAT, I went and looked it up.
I learned that in 2015, European Union started charging VAT for sales of digital property. At the time, Ravelry didn’t have anything in place to remit VAT. There are options to do it yourself, but it was so complicated. Love Knitting (now Love Crafts) also offered a solution if you sell patterns through them instead of Ravelry. But all of this was from over 8 years ago. I kept searching and didn’t find much information from after that time, so I was confused about what the situation is now.
Eventually, I found out Ravelry will send an invoice every month where you pay VAT, along with any fees from your sales. I don’t know how I missed this before I spent all the time searching for answers. I just paid it through PayPal and it was so simple.
Hope this will help someone who was confused like I was!
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