Dysmorphia💛🤍💜🖤knitty.com has just announced a feature that precisely fulfills one of my wished-for knitting user stories!
“As a knitter, I'd like to have the option to see instructions just for the size or variations I'm working on.” (From my post https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-07-28-user-stories-for-legible-knitting-patterns/ )
“k+ allows you to select the size you're going to knit, and then you can hide all the other numbers in the pattern” (from “What is K+?” https://knitty.com/whatIsKnittyPlus.php )
Writing a user story is relatively easy. Making it happen is a whole lot more effort. It’s a Patron-only feature, and I was thinking I should maybe possibly become a Patron sometime soon since I’ve been using Knitty’s free patterns since 2005 and I’d like them to stay online. Now I definitely will because I want this feature!
User stories for legible knitting patterns
Knitting patterns are written like minified code. People don't normally read code when it's minified, but we knitters have to follow these compact patterns. While stitch counters and stitch markers help keep count of repetitions, that's not enough. I'm not sure what other people do, but I tend to print my patterns and scrawl notes all over them.