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Why struggle with complicated math? Let the Knit it Now Bust Dart Tool calculate the short-row shaping for darts. Adding bust darts will improve the
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Calculate knitted circles for your machine. Use ANY yarn, ANY machine, ANY gauge, ANY size! 6 or 8 wedges hats blankets
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Easily shape your knitting with the Magic Formula and no math! Often used to shorten or lengthen sleeves or add waist shaping, this tool is invaluable when
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Easily shape your knitting with the Magic Formula and no math! Often used to shorten or lengthen sleeves or add waist shaping, this tool is invaluable and
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More and more machine knitters are using hand knitting yarn that is put up in balls, skeins and hanks. By using the information on the ball band, this tool
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Knit it Now Interactive Patterns allow you to create custom patterns based on your gauge AND make adjustments to the measurements without any math.They
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One thing that will guarantee success with your knitting. READ!

Waiting for the delivery of a pattern in your email? With our Dynamic Patterns, you build a custom pattern based on YOUR gauge. The patterns live in your
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It's inevitable, making mistakes and ripping. Ever have trouble keeping track of how many rows you knit? Try this tip.

Cut your ravel cord? Heaven forbid! Let's talk about alternative ravel cord materials and uses for a machine knitters best friend ... ravel cord.

Do you have DesignaKnit (or considering it)? You CAN put it to use with your LK-150 machine (or Brother KX350 or any non-patterning/non-electronic
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Whoo Hoo! You have a new-to-you LK-150 knitting machine! This popular machine offers so many possibilities for both new and experienced machine knitters.
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Use the carriage rests when knitting wide pieces.

How to break apart an LK150 to create a W-I-D-E (200 - 250 needle) machine. Combine 2 machines by removing 1 or 2 sections and adding them to a 2nd machine.

Connect the Brother 970 CB1 box to DesignaKnit using the Brother Link USB cable

If you don't have a mechanical row counter for your Brother 970, you can use the CB-1 box as your row counter, even if you aren't doing any patterning
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Control the number of email you receive from our Member forum

Follow your pattern on your tablet for easier knitting.

The heart and soul of the website is the "KNIT" section. It not only contains all of our Dynamic patterns, it holds a wealth of resources for your knitting.

Knit it Now patterns are different than patterns you've used before. Instead of forcing you to use a specific machine, yarn and stitch pattern, you can build
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You may not want to draft your own knitting patterns, but sometimes you need to modify a pattern for fit. Knit it Now tools takes the tedious math out of
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Learn to machine knit the most efficient on-line way possible. Interactive learning courses include videos, practice exercises, question and answer tutorials
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Do you have a pattern using an old yarn? Find a replacement suggestion. Learn more about yarn in your stash. The Vintage Yarn index is a searchable
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Explore the Knit it Now Learning Library. Navigate the over 500 tutorials and find what you need when you need it.

Inspiration from the hand Knitting World.

This custom pattern allows you to create a vest for your pet. Enter the dimensions and your gauge and you'll have a custom pattern. Use any yarn, stitch
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Walk through with us as we prepare to knit Susanna's blanket. Estimate yarn and use the interactive knitting pattern format.
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Knit 5 striped pieces, join them as you knit, 2 seams and you'll have this unusual graphic design poncho.

Here's an interesting, comfortable and fashionable shape that is perfect for knitting on the machine. With a bit of shaping, pleats and strategic folds,
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What machine knitting patterns do you use? Even though we don't have many publications dedicated to machine knitting these days, we do have options. Hand
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Home knitting machines allow the knitter to produce beautiful knitted items - FAST! Instead of forming one stitch at a time, imagine knitting 200 stitches with
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Imagine knitting a gauge swatch in a few minutes! You can easily try out a new stitch pattern or quickly match a pattern gauge.Watch as we knit
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How do you learn to Machine Knit? This tutorial covers the many resources available. Many beginning machine knitters get overwhelmed with all the
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You don't need special coned yarn to knit with a knitting machine. Many knitters use yarn on cones so they don't have to work in as many yarn ends as you do
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The LK150 is easy to learn and use and is currently a very popular knitting machine. Join me to discover why.

Knot in your yarn? Don't knit it in! Position it at the edge and neatly secure the tails.

When working with coned yarn, many knitters are confused by the numbering system. Yarn on cones is often referred to by the yarn count (3/8, 10/2 etc).
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Machine Needle Pitch refers to the distance between the needles on the needle bed. Explore the different needle pitches and why they are critical to successful
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Manual Wrap for Short Row Shaping (no sound)

A quick and easy basic cast on. A need-to-know for every machine knitter.

Used on any machine, this is the easiest of all closed cast on methods. Plus it provides instant gathers!

When instructed to cast on 2-4 stitches, using a cast on rag really comes in handy. Discover this trick for an easier cast on over a few needles.

For many stitch patterns, like lace and tuck, having even weight on your work is important. If you combine single bed and double bed stitches in a single
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A new knitter wrote that she was doing something wrong when casting on. Turns out that the technique she used was just plain "ugly" for the edge of her
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Need to rip down a few rows? Explore 4 tools to help repair a mistake, pick up stitches and save your knitting.

If a stitch drops, don't panic! Use a single transfer tool to neatly pickup the stitch and re-hang it on the machine.

Prepare for those inevitable mistakes. The best MK advice I've been given.Learn more about lifelines and fixing mistakes in the Classroom:
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.my_left { border-left: 6px solid #ccc!important; } Also known as a needle
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Ladders: Put needles out of work to use for your knitting.
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You don't need "special" yarn for machine knitting. Here are the facts.

With the front and back of your pillow knitted, join them together with crochet. Included are tips for finishing and examples of how we made our sample.

Neatly joining pieces by grafting (or Kitchener stitch) is essential for all knitters. Doing it on the machine utilizes the needles to help make the perfect
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Attaching I-cord to the edge of a knitted piece adds a nice finishing touch. There are unlimited variations to this technique here are 3 for you to try.
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When knitting in stockinette, both hand and machine, a knitter needs to deal with the rolling edges. It’s the nature of the knitted stitches to curl.
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Here's one little trick to make your I-cord edges look beautiful every time.

Don't EXPECT any knitting pattern to fit you without alterations. Learn to make changes to customize patterns for your success. The video refers to our
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The classic style of a shawl collar for cardigans is not hard to incorporate in your designs. Explore some examples and tips.

Follow along as we examine a ready-to-wear sweater design. Based on 3 criteria, we'll examine the possibility of knitting it on the knitting machine.

Not enough needles to knit the size you need? Every knitter needs to understand the possibilities of their machine and different yarns. Learn to calculate
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The Simply Rectangles Waterfall Vest construction is unusual. Modifying the length of this garment can be tricky. Follow the logic and use the included
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Need a fast knitting pattern? Get started quickly with Garment Designer in a few simple steps. This software can be purchased from Cochenille Design
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Take a deep dive into knitting this beautiful, open tuck lace stitch pattern. It covers manual and automatic patterning machines, plus Brother and
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Mimicking 2x1 ribbing, using tuck, Faux ribbing can be worked on any machine. It is not stretchy and the "ribbing" is on the Knit side only.The purl
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With non-patterning machines and any time you want to work a hand manipulated stitch pattern, there's usually a lot of counting of needles involved. Here are
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This is the beginnings of learning how to convert graphics by starting with black and white line drawings and converting them into a stitch pattern. We will
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This video will cover conversion techniques for block colored patterns, much like filling in a coloring page with blocks of color. Again the importance of
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It is fun to create a full color design on a child's sweater front. He we take two cute puppies in a basket and convert them to a design. We how to determine
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DesignaKnit Original Pattern Drafting is so incredibly full featured that is can be overwhelming to the new user. Here we take the use of various different
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This is one of the simplest and most basic start of manipulation of individual garment pieces within the garment shape to start learning how to use the Original
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Everyone should have a garment shaping file for a six month old infant to be prepared for celebrations of new life between family and friends. This exercise
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Thumbnails are now also used for shape files and palette files in addition to stitch patterns and standard graphic files. Shape files can be searched by the
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This option allows you to easily create intermediate garment shaping files in a series of sizes. In this example, we will use a pants pattern in Small and
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On any garment piece, by zooming in along the edge of the garment piece and selecting exact stitch layout using View / Stitch Handles will then show light
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Now, you have the ability to lay out your stitch patterns directly on your garment pieces in Original Pattern Drafting. Lay out different patterns on each
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When you want to get knitting, you want to spend your time at the machine, not the computer! If you’ve knitted your swatch and know your gauge, use
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This video is appropriate for the new user to DesignaKnit to rapidly create a sweater ready to knit. It also is a great refresher course for those who haven't
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Now that you have created your first garment, it is easy to create a second garment using a few simple changes. We will cover changing tensions, reading
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We can use the Measurements Table to 'trick' DesignaKnit 8 into creating a short sleeve top. Here in this tutorial, we will make a short sleeved ladies cardigan
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We already played tricks on DesignaKnit, fooling it into making a cute short sleeved top with crocheted edges. Here in this tutorial, will make a winter
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When you choose Custom sizing instead of the built in DesignaKnit 8 Standard Size Measurement database, a new Custom Sizing database opens up for you to select
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Here we will create a small diamond Fairisle pattern for a handknit seater for a six month old baby. We will be using the pencil and drawing on multiple repeats
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DesignaKnit 8 has a multitude of icon tools to help you create that perfect design. We will be walking you through how each icon works, the options that they
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DesignaKnit 8 has a multitude of icon tools to help you create that perfect design. We will be walking you through how each icon works, the options that they
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Here we will look at the different palettes available to us for designing in colors, stitches and crossed cables. All of these techniques are suitable for both
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Here we will look at the different palettes available to us for designing in colors, stitches and crossed cables. All of these techniques are suitable for both
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This tutorial discusses the layout for a baby blanket, the use of a graphic pattern from the DesignaKnit Graphics Studio conversion, the use of Palette Replace
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This tutorial covers how to correctly place cables down on to your stitch design as a design element. They can be simple 1 x 1 cable crosses or very complicated
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A basic review of how to use DAK stitch pattern files provided by Knit it Now in patterns and the Stitch Library.

If your stitch symbols aren't being displayed, here's a quick fix.

Now in this version of DesignaKnit, using the program we can update the program to its newest release easily. We will go through the actual steps involved
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There are many methods for creating shaped knitted pieces. To reduce the number of stitches in work (an armhole, for example) knitters use binding off,
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Short Row Shaping (Partial Knitting) is used in so many ways in machine knitting. If you aren't familiar with this technique, here's a quick
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Here's a fun, textured scarf that is sure to impress! Watch as we detail the partial knitting (short rows) that form the pyramids.Not only is this a fun
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The Needle Retaining Bar (also known as a Sponge Bar or Sponge Presser Bar) on a knitting machine holds the needles in place. Most metal bed machines have a
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