The Tech Editor Hub

You are invited to join us for the May workshop happening in the paid Tech Editor Hub Community Tomorrow at 12 pm ET, knitwear designer and size inclusion expert Jennifer Parroccini is joining us live to discuss SIZING in our industry. Since 2018, I have helped designers create patterns that include everyone in their size range. I believe it is incredibly important that every maker can make any pattern they want, but it takes knowledge and skill to be able to provide that. And how exactly do...

If you missed my last newsletter, I started a conversation about my views on AI and our work. You can read it HERE. Feel free to share with friends. We editors do help designers and publishers get things right in patterns. We make sure that the numbers and all the stuff related to making is correct. If we get confused when working through a section, we help the designer achieve more clarity and give the makers a better experience with the instructions. We love a little consistency check,...

Questions I have heard a lot lately are: Will AI be able to tech edit? Will I lose my job to the bots? Friends, AI cannot do what you do. And in my opinion, it may never be able to--AI is not genuinely intelligent and has no ingenuity (look up François Chollet's studies). Technical editing of the caliber that we execute in each pattern we edit requires a type of human intelligence that computers cannot learn from just analyzing a database of fiber arts books (yeah, Meta stole my copyrighted...

Time for another tech editor interview! A couple weeks ago I interviewed Megan Wilding of Calm House Crafting. Megan is a UK-based crochet and knitting technical editor and designer. She an eternal lover of all things crafty, loves creating wonderful things with yarn, and is passionate about the process, especially when it involves learning new ways of working with yarn. She's always had a great eye for detail and her love for knitting and crochet has led to her career in technical editing...

Time for another tech editor interview! Recently I interviewed Bonnie Davis of https://bluecrabknits.com/. Bonnie is a published writer for both online and in print children’s and adult magazines with credits in fiction, articles about writing, and children’s non-fiction. She has 60+ years of experience in yarn crafts and offers technical editing services for knitting and crochet patterns. She is an inspiration to all of us, demonstrating that one's life experience is our top asset to...

Hey all, time for a few intros. My name is Sarah Walworth and I am a knitting technical editor. Here's my story: September 24, 2015. I am pacing in my kitchen and my heart is racing. It's been six days since I found the page on a website called Joeli's Kitchen that described a technical editing course for knitting patterns. I am deciding to buy. It's not an easy step. How will I find time to do this? I am 11 years into homeschooling 3 rambunctious kids and 3 semesters into a university-level...

This will be the last newsletter of 2024. I am off for a combo of travelling to see family and doing a personal 3-day retreat. Here's what I wrote awhile back about taking breaks: How close are you to burnout? As editors, we tend to be the type of person who Loves the feeling of being busy, but may not recognize when we are doing too much until it is too late, and/or Feels that unless we are busy, we aren't good enough at our jobs. Do you identify with either of these? I think I have both and...