Old patterns. LaceFontSample.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Software for Knitters: Part I. Personal computers, dweeby and enormously expensive toys twenty years ago, are now, for better or worse, an intimate part of most of our lives.
Their uses span a breathtaking (or alarming,depending on your point of view) range of applications. We all know about the Internet; word processing, photo editing, and Solitaire. But not much is written about personal computers and knitting. Here and there, you’ll see a review or comment about some program, but the information is generally cursory and mostly fairly dated.
There are several spreadsheet templates for organizing yarn and projects floating about the Web, but aside from that, hard information is surprisingly sparse. It follows, of course, that there’s a vacuum begging to be filled, and herewith I will endeavor to fill the void with information about knitting software and ancillary applications you might find useful and that I have actually used. Organization. Software for Knitters: Part II. Good old Excel.
This spreadsheet app has been around forever, and its uses are myriad. You can keep a stash list, make charts, and keep track of pattern rows as you knit. I use it mostly for chart-making when I want to to edit the pattern on the fly—something that’s impossible with a graphics-based program such as Knit Visualizer. I’m going to spend this entire entry on Excel for several reasons. First, there’s a spreadsheet program available for every platform—PC, Mac, and Linux. These files are available in the Files section of the knittingsoftware Yahoo group that I started a few minutes ago while I was writing this section (isn't the Internet wonderful?). Everyone is welcome to join the group, however, please don’t expect me to give you technical service! Software for Knitters: Part III. Knit Visualizer version 1.2 Platform: Mac and PCRating: 4 out of 5 stars Knit Visualizer is an astounding programming tour de force.
The program not only lets you paint stitches onto a graph, it also can translate written directions into a chart for you. After Excel, it’s the program I turn to most for charting tasks, especially if I want especially handsome printed output. This version is not especially appropriate for charting in color—there are better programs currently available for this kind of design (and I will talk about them in later postings). However, the next version will let you chart directly in color (and will include more symbols, too).
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St-DENIS St-Denis Magazine #2. HEY, SHOW ME YOUR KNITS! Knit One, Poet Too. Untitled. Dances with Wools. Purl Stitch - English - Knitting Community. The purl stitch joins forces with the knit stitch to enable a knitter to conquer the world (the knitting world, at least)!
You will often see the word purl abbreviated as p or P in knitting pattern shorthand. The American method simply indicates that you hold the working yarn in your right hand. Knitters who use this style are often referred to as “throwers”. Insert right needle through the front of the first stitch from right to left. Wrap the yarn around the right needle tip counter-clockwise. DROPS Design ~ Free knitting patterns. Rundstrickmaschinen. The production of ribbed tubular goods and athletic socks became possible for the first time with the "Simplex" machine, manufactured by the English company Wildt & Co.
In 1920, the English company William Spiers in Leicester launched the first double-cylinder knitting machine with several operating systems for patterned purl-knit goods. Double-cylinder knitting machines are a special type of circular knitting machines which work with two needle cylinders. The machine produces double knit purl fabric or, depending on the production step, single knit plain jersey fabric. Norwegian to English Knitting Lessons from Bagatell. Find these instructions useful?
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In continental style knitting, the LEFT hand supplies the yarn, in English style knitting, the RIGHT hand supplies the yarn. The yarn, however, goes the same way around the needles, and the needles go the same way through the loop. Herbert Niebling. Knitted Lace Designs of Herbert Niebling German lace knitting Books - Needle Arts Book Shop. All about French Knitting. French knitting is great fun. It is how I started knitting as a kid. Children like it because they can learn this new skill quickly and will soon be able to produce friendship bracelets for each other.
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