Crochet & Knitting Pattern Tech Editing

Are you a crochet or knitting pattern designer who is striving to provide the best version of your pattern?

Hi there, I’m Marjan! For the past 5 years I’ve been designing crochet and knitting patterns for English and Dutch publications, including several different websites and magazines. From my experience as a designer, I learned it’s important that a pattern includes all the essential information, is easy to understand and above all fun to make! With my experience as a designer and my great attention to detail, I want to help beginner and experienced desingers to create the best version of their crochet or knitting pattern!

Technical Editing Service:

As a tech editor I will review your English or Dutch crochet or knitting pattern. While reviewing your pattern, I will check the written text, math, consistency, measurements/sizing, etc. If applicable, I will check if the chart(s) match(es) the written instructions. After I have reviewed the pattern, I will send you my feedback and suggestions.

Additional Services:

Create (a) crochet chart(s) to accompany (parts of) your crochet pattern.
Create a schematic to show the measurements of the finished item/garment.
Develop a style sheet that you can use again and again to create a consist style across all your patterns.
Translate your crochet pattern from English (US or UK terminology) to Dutch, or vice versa.

Examples of charts & schematics:

Availability & Pricing:

Unfortunately I’m currently not taking on new clients.

I charge €25,- per hour for technical editing, chart and schematic creation. Invoices will be send through PayPal. Feel free to send your pattern via email to receive an estimate.

Reviews:

Marjan has tech edited one of my mandala crochet patterns. She has done a very thorough job. Although this pattern has already been tested by several people, she was still able to point out areas for improvement. Her comments on consistency and comprehensibility in particular helped me a lot to improve my pattern. The way Marjan gives feedback makes it very easy to implement the improvements. If a particular error or inconsistency occurs multiple times, she will also indicate it multiple times. I recommend anyone, who wants to deliver high quality patterns, to have their work tech edited by Marjan!

Marjan tech edited the first pattern I’m selling on my own, and I didn’t even realize how important this step is until her first edit came back — I’m so glad I didn’t skip this step! She worked surprisingly fast but was so thorough, catching everything from math errors to inconsistencies to just weird wording, and she was so patient with me, which I really appreciate! Next time I need something tech edited I’m definitely coming back to her. Thank you, Marjan!

Marjan helped me with my first ever tech-editing and she surprised me with how thorough she was. As I am a relatively new designer and the pattern was relatively complicated and had many sizes, it had many things that needed to be edited, but she kept working and giving comments until everything was fixed. She looked through and made comments on the numbers as well as the language, and she helped me to make the pattern much more user-friendly for those who bought it in the end. I would recommend Marjan for anyone who needs tech editing for their crochet pattern.

Contact:

You can contact me via the contact form below or send me an email at info@hobbydingen.com.