Charting Software For Knitting
In this final post for Design Week, I'm sharing an excerpt from Kate Atherley's Book '. No matter what level of designer you are, how you layout and chart your knitting instructions can be crucial to the final clarity of your knitting pattern. Here, Kate shares her favourite software knit and crochet design.
' Pattern Layout Tools Layout software Graphic designers go to school for years to learn good layout skills. If your budget permits – or if you’ve got the software and skills yourself – a professional layout job will always look great. That having been said, with some simple tools and simple guidelines, you can create attractive and usable patterns without hiring a professional.
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This chapter is not intended to replace graphic design training or the services of an expert, but it should at least give you enough knowledge to talk to a graphic designer, or set you on the way to improving your own skills. No matter how you achieve it, a tidy, well-thought-out layout is critical. It doesn’t have to be fancy, but it has to look good.
Access to computers is pretty much universal, and expectations about pattern quality are higher than they have ever been. Hand-written, hand-drawn or “unformatted” documents are simply not acceptable any more.
Many graphic designers use a layout tool like Adobe InDesign, but even the most mainstream of office suites includes some kind of layout software. Even classic word processors like Microsoft Word offer sufficient functionality to create a nice and tidy pattern. Essentially, all you need is the ability to embed an image, change text fonts and sizes, make text italic and bold, and add a second column. Google Docs and Open Office are free solutions that are remarkably powerful. It’s better to stay with a program you know well than to spend a lot of money on software like InDesign and struggle to use it. Charting Tools There is a variety of software applications available to create charts, but you can do it perfectly well without special software. I started my career using Microsoft Excel to create charts. (Now that my budget permits, I swear by.).
Knitting Software. The following is a list of software which can be used for knitting. Software that is free will be marked with FREE in the title. Knitting Crochet Cross stitch Other. Create chart. Explore ideas Help Center About Stitch Fiddle. Stitch Fiddle Design your own patterns. Knitting Software Informer. Popular Knitting free downloads and reviews. Latest updates on everything Knitting Software related.
The lowest-cost solution is to (neatly) draw them by hand, and scan the drawing. For a long time, I happily used Aire River’s Knitting Font, a free downloadable font, in conjunction with a spreadsheet program. You can download the font. XRX (the publisher of Knitter’s Magazine) has also published a similar font, Knitter’s Symbol Font, available for download. Installing a font with knitting symbols allows you to use them in your word processor, spreadsheet or layout software. Many designers create their own charts in a drawing program like Illustrator, but in many ways a spreadsheet program can be easier: stitches and rows can be automatically created, numbering is automatically handled, and grids are easily added and managed.' Do any of you have software you can't live without?
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