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Graph paper | Make your own punchcards | Online tools | Software | Miscellaneous

Graph paper
  • Actual size graph paper (PDF)
  • Knitting graph paper *NEW*
  • Print your own graph paper

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Make your own punchcard templates from PDFs you can fill in
  • Instructions
  • 12st blank
  • 24st Toyota blank
  • Standard lace form blank (2 carriage lace)
  • Standard lace (1 carriage system)
  • Fashion lace card (1 carriage lace)
  • Toyota 950 lace
  • 30st blank

(All kindly provided by Megsystylish on Ravelry)

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Online tools
  • Atkinson dithering tool - convert your photos
  • Auto-sloper - great tool for designing sweaters
  • Armscye Calculator
  • Brenda's DAK downloads
  • Charlene's knitting swatch converter
  • CSM foot calculator
  • Design your own Icelandic sweater
  • Estimate yardage when converting a knit pattern to a new stitch gauge
  • Frill Calculator
  • Gaugefy (gauge calculator)
  • How to download Passap card reader techniques
  • How to take an image of a grid from a PDF and convert it into a bitmap plus an example
  • Img2trk notes
  • Intarsia generator - upload a PNG file
  • Jacquard punchcard generator
  • Knit Cables Generator
  • Knitpro - upload a picture and make it into a chart
  • Knitter's graph paper generator
  • Knitting Pattern Generator
  • Knitting yardage calculator
  • The magic formula
  • Magic Formula Calculator
  • Metric conversions
  • Mosaic Pattern Generator
  • Passap card reader technique generator
  • Pattern generators - pullover, cardigan, poncho
  • Pattern Punch Knit - online punchcard generator
  • Planned pooling - interesting program that can calculate pooling for instant fairisle yarns
  • Random squares generator
  • Random stripe generator
  • Sock Calculator
  • Sockulator Socks
  • Stitch Maps
  • Sweater wheel
  • Tartan Maker
  • Triangle Calculator
  • Useful calculators (Italian)
  • Yarn calculator

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Software
  • Calcuknit emulator
  • Cochenille Garment Designer & Stitch Painter
  • Compustrick (defunct)
  • Computer Design Software (DE)
  • Designaknit (Softbyte)
  • FB100 emulator
  • Img2track
  • Jim's Knitting Companion Program - convert hand knit patterns to machine knit
  • Knitware (no longer supported) *NEW*
  • Knittington - converting images from any format
  • LibreCAD software
  • Pattern Explorer - .PAT and .STP browser
  • Roses Knits software tools - various tools for knitters
  • Silverknit
  • Sweatermaker
  • Visual Passap

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Miscellaneous
  • Copyright for knitters
  • Errata for Susan Guagliumi's Hand Manipulated Stitches
  • Judging sheet and grid for machine knitting classes
  • Knitradar KR6 scales PDF
  • Multiple increases and decreasesPDF
  • Passap .cut and .pat files (Shortcut shapings)
  • The knitting tool kit - smartphone app

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