Practical Examples

The Goal

With all the power of DesignaKnit Stitch Designer, it's easy to get lost in all the fun features and possibilities.

Explore some of the "everyday" uses of Stitch Designer that you can put to use.

About Motifs

Motif Basics

Duplicate a Punchcard Parts 1 and 2

Isolated Motif

Horizontal and Vertical Placement

Mix 'n Match

Practical Examples

Introduction to Motifs

Practical Examples

Motif Basics

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Duplicate a Punchcard (1 and 2)

You find a simple punchcard image in a magazine or online and you want to get it into Designaknit.

If it's a simple design, you don't have to use the Graphics Studio conversion process.

Just draw a single repeat and get knitting.

Why copy a stitch pattern into DesignaKnit?

Download it to your machine
Create a punchcard
Integrate it with garment pieces
Use it with Interactive Knitting

Download B&W.PLT stitch palette.

1Copy a 2x2 Stitch Pattern

Follow along and copy a simple 2 stitch by 2 row stitch pattern PLUS explore creating a custom color palette.

2Copy another Stitch Pattern with a variation

Copy another simple punchcard stitch pattern and explore Smart Symbols

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Isolated Motif

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Horizontal and Vertical Placement

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Mix 'n Match

Please Consider this:

Mixing and matching stitch patterns and motifs can be a fun exercise in creativity. Inserting color motifs horizontally or vertically or even adding Isolated Motifs or names will work for plain knitting. As long as the patterned gauges are similar, many wonderful combinations can be created.

BUT

Mixing and Matching stitch patterns is another subject. For example, the gauge for a tuck stitch will be considerably different than the gauge for stockinette. 10 rows of stockinette may be 1" but it may take 15 rows of tuck to knit 1".

Putting different gauge stitch patterns on the same row is a recipe for "wonky" knitting.

Practical Examples

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