
Struggling to learn Design-A-Knit? We highly recommend Cathie's DesignaKnit Tutorial
Aran Paint With AranPaint you can design textured stitch patterns almost instantly by just pointing and clicking.
Batch Batch file conversions
Buttons Calculates buttonhole spacing
Color Vision Adobe Photoshop® module that lets designers create new colorways on scanned fabrics, without any loss of color, texture or original shading.
Color Exchange Adobe Photoshop® plug-in
which enables you to automatically generate and view colorways of patterns, prints,
backgrounds, woven, or any
graphic design.
Color Separator Separator program, a
must-have utility program which takes a multi-colored knit design and expands the graph
for Jacquard
knitting.
Dr. Cutter Its main function is to read an image, resize it, and save it.
DAP Design A Pattern
Design A Knit Pattern Designing Software
Garment Designer More features than Garment Styler
Garment Styler Garment Styler will allow you to easily and visually design non-structured clothing for sweater design, loom-shaped garments, stitched canvas garments and non-structured styles for quilting and other textile crafts.
Graph Paper Maker Graph paper for charts
Haberdash HABERDASH!® from Mechanix is a
complete, affordable textile design product for wovens, prints, knits and colorways. It is
100% inside Adobe
Photoshop® and is called from PhotoShop's Filter menu.
KnitPic Its main function is to read an image, reduce the number of colors to 2, and save it.
Knit Pad Easy to use Passap card designer
Knit Calculator
Knit Base (need to locate author/web site)
MakePCX Converts some graphics files to 256 color PCX file
Magic
Formula
Mouse Pen Great to use with Design Tablets
Moms Sweater Maker (need to locate author/web site)
Mr. card Edit and print console cards for Passap machines in a windows environment.
Organized Expressions Organization Craft Database
Optitex Download the latest in pattern design, grading and marking software.
PlaidMaker Plus Adobe Photoshop® module that lets designers generate their own weaves.
Plaids & Stripes Adobe Photoshop®
plug-in for instantly generating plaid and stripe patterns, which can be further
manipulated in PhotoShop. Includes yarn
structures to automatically create different patterns.
PASSAP Headquarters, Switzerland
PEDS PEDS is a piece of software that allows you to use PE-Design, Palette, or Deco-Wizard, without the need of the cardwriter module.
Perl Sock Calculator Nice sock program
Pullovers That Fit This Windows program will make knitting your own custom pullovers & tunics fast & easy.
QuickRepeat Adobe Photoshop® module that
lets textile designers create printed
fabrics. Images can easily be reiterated in cascading, rotating, superimposed forms, with
horizontal or vertical image inversion.
Rep Tile Draw patterns and manipulate them interactively while viewing the REPeated TILE version.
Stitch Editor dos The purpose of the program is to load multi-colored or black and white images, color-reduce the image and automatically grid it.
Style and Chart The Style and Chart program, by knit expert Lucy Morton, offers you the exhilarating ability of custom designing and charting of sweaters.
Sock Calculator Another nice sock program
Sweater Pattern Generators The Knitting Friend pattern generators create custom sweater patterns using your exact gauge and your exact measurements!
SnapFashun & SnapWest SnapFashun and SnapWest (updates), feature sketches for the apparel manufacturer that "snap" together and apart for an infinite number of design
Symmetry Computer Aided Apparel Design Pattern making, made to measure, grading, marker making. Digitize and plot.
Sweater Machine The Sweater Machine will create a pattern for a completely seamless, knit, sweater/jumper in the size you choose, using the gauge you specify
Stitch Counter Kathys Kreations
Sew
Fittingly
Slacks
Stitch Painter This fabulous new design tool is specifically geared to the needs of textile and craft designers of all sorts and we made it so user-friendly, you scarcely need a manual.
Stitch & Motif Maker Stitch & Motif Maker, a knitting paint program.
Surface Magic If you create with hand-drawn or geometric repeats, you need this program!
Sweater Maker Windows charts sweaters, calculates gauges, draws pictures, records measurements, and writes text patterns.
Sweater Wizard The Sweater Wizard is a charting program
Thumb Print Allows you to preview "knitting type" files (as thumbnails). Other utilities too.
Terry Mason Software Knitting Pattern Writer - Pattern Writer II - Knitting for Children - Sideways Knitted Tops - Knitter's Database - Knitter's Source Database
Walking Shorts Windows program features plain or pleated front with directions for adding pockets to both styles
Water Fountain Software Inc. Personal Patterns 4 DELUXE - PP Combo PP4 Deluxe, Jackets Deluxe and Children's - Personal Patterns 4 Windows - Personal Patterns 4 Mac - Designer Jackets and Suits DELUXE - Personal Patterns for Children 2.0 - Personal Patterns Children DELUXE - Personal Patterns Pants - Personal Patterns 3+
Wacom Tablets Graphic Drawing Tablets
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Updated Friday June 09, 2006