Knit Patterner guides

How to use Knit Patterner, part by part. The same guides are in the app: press F1 for help with whatever you are working on.

• Getting started

  Design a chart, and get the written pattern with it

• Reading a chart

  Which way the rows go, and what the numbers mean

• Painting stitches and colours

  The palette, and how squares are painted

• Stitch reference

  Every stitch, its symbol and how to work it

• Selecting squares

  Copy, paste, flip, repeat, and add or delete rows and stitches

• Repeats and panels

  The red repeat box, and panels worked as charts of their own

• The written pattern

  How the rows are written, and copying them

• Stitch counts and floats

  What the status bar at the bottom checks

• Colourwork

  Stranded, intarsia, mosaic, and colours from a picture

• Gauge, size and yarn

  Gauge, cast-on for a width, sizes, shaping and yarn amounts

• Knitting mode

  Follow the chart a row at a time

• Knitted preview and 3D

  See the fabric, flat or made up

• Saving, sharing and printing

  Save, load, import, export, share, booklets and printing

• Keyboard shortcuts

  Keys that save time

• Accessibility

  Using Knit Patterner with a keyboard, a screen reader or high contrast

• On a phone or tablet

  Tapping, swiping and where things are

• Glossary

  Knitting words, explained

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