Wouldn't it be nice to have access to a crochet program, not to replace human function, not to industrialized crochet as it has done with knitting, but just to make it easy for us who design the piece so we can spend our time designing and crocheting instead of writing and drawing? Could this software be the answer?
1. Stitch EditYou have to click on this tool to be able to add stitches to your chart.
2. Row EditI noticed that if any blank space included in your stitch drawing art board, that is going to be considered by the program as part of the stitch. This blank space will give you problems later when using the Row Edit function as it makes it hard for it to determine the actual row you are selecting and you ended up blaming the software for its incapability of doing what you told it to do.When you connect the stitches to create a chart row, a Copy Instruction menu appear at the bottom. I particularly like this function because it helps a lot in preparing your written pattern.
3. Scale EditI love how it rescales your image in a smooth and easy way. As long as you don't let go of your mouse it will continue reshaping until you achieve the size and shape required.
4. Rotation EditThe manual says: In this mode you can edit the angle that the stitch is tilted at. You can rotate the stitch 360° relative to the bottom of the stitch. For minor adjustments to the angle of a stitch or selection of stitches you can use then arrow keys. Right or Down are clock-wise and Left or Up are counter-clockwise.
Rotation edit only function for a single stitch and it does not function when you want to rotate a group of stitches. If you try to rotate a group, each of the stitches in the group will rotate according to the angle it was tilted at.
5. Color EditFabulous tool especially for creating crochet graph or tapestry crochet.
6. Indicator EditGreat tool and the number is editable too making it very useful to indicate each rows or round in the chart.
Align and DistributeExcellent tool to tidy up those messy chart after placing so many stitches.
Mirror There are several selections, fixed degree and custom and all good. This function makes repeating patterns easier and faster. The only minor thing is the absence of the ability to dictate where exactly you wish to place the new image. Yes it's mirrors it but then it also moved it to a certain degree from the source image. Also I noticed that the program memorized the stitch you placed on your chart. This is a bit annoying when you rescale your stitch it doesn't recognize your updated version and gives you your old stitches instead and then you have to rescale it again.
ShortcutsAll the tool edits has shortcuts which is excellent for maneuvering between edit functions.
Copying and PastingWould be nice if there are several options to to paste the object such as Paste Into instead of Paste and Move as it is right now. Paste into would be more useful as you can immediately flip it and paste it across the chart using its mirror function.Tips: Before copying and pasting a complex chart, group them first, copy then paste.
Program crashedI have love and hate relationship with this software for the past few days. At one time there is much more hate than love. After working half a day on my complex Nihon Vogue inspired graph, it crashed on me so all the works were gone and what left was just pain in my neck. I browsed online and found out I am not the only one. There is another person at least experiencing the same problem as I am. So her computer too crashes after the stitches being added to the library. I was thinking could it be the size of the scratch disk assigned to it, is not big enough? Later on I found out the source of the problem. At least one of the source of the problems. I re opened the file that giving me the problem, open the Stitch Library, removed the new stitches I added. When I look at the stitch preview I noticed that I had made my stitches far too big... so after removing the stitches, I restarted the program and create a new file... voila, problems gone. The program function again as before. Hope this help anyone whose having the same problem as I did. The programmer already told me to read the manual, I was just too lazy to do that. It's clearly say the size of the image for your stitches was suggested at 64 x 64 pt Hah! No wonder it crashes because mine was a humongous A4 size lol. I learned my lesson.
Exporting FilesExcellent tool and great variety of final results including editable PDF. You can export the chart as PDF, JPG SVF, TIF, PNG.
But I want more:On my list of request there are:
1. Layers, Rullers, Gridlines2. Copy Instruction It would be nice to have it according to the standard pattern writing according to the common standard usage. Craft Yarn Council give these written example: : 14 sc. (14 sc).—14 sc. Crochet stitches uses: : Dc 20, t-ch3 1, sl st 1.Which version do you think is easier to read? I am grateful this software is made. I give the programmer 2 thumbs up. I have purchased the software and will continue to update as it is available.That's all for now. I will update as I go. Pictured above one quick simple chart made using the software.
Some feedbacks from the programmerHere below are my email correspondents with the programmer and some feedbacks from him on the software developments. I am exited to see how far this program can take me crocheting:Would you please show me the link to an example of chart to text files?
Once you've connected the rows using the Row edit feature, you can copy the text to clipboard using the "Copy Instructions" button at the bottom left of the main window.
Once I have created a chart, do I have to manually count and type the numberof stitches in every round? Can the software do it for me?
At this time the software does not do a row by row stitch count. This feature is on my wish list.
Also are you going to add in the feature, transforming text into graph? would be great if that can be done.
Text-to-chart conversion is currently on my schedule for a mid-2014 release.
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