Knitting Links

Pittsburgh East Knitting Guild

KNITTING MAGAZINES

Cast On The National Knitting Guild of Americas Magazine. A resource designed to help you learn the techniques needed to improve your knitting.

Interweave Knits Home page for Interweave Knits magazine.

Knit 'N Style Magazine - Site features knitting links, message board, In The Loop classifieds, back issue catalog, shop directory, subscription information and advertising information.

KnitNet - Quarterly, web-based magazine.

Knitters - Home page for Knitters magazine.

Knitter's Review - Free weekly email newsletter with in-depth yarn reviews, fiber information, online shop profiles, interviews, book reviews, and more.

Knitting Now - Online presence of Knitting Now, a newsletter for "Serious Knitters" which publishes articles about knitters and knitting, reviews, a calendar of knitting events, humor, and original patterns along with features such as "In the Knitting Museum" and "The Guild Experience." Each issue contains 6 - 9 new designs.

Vogue Knitting - Previews the lates issues of Vogue Knitting. Each issue has styles for every skill level plus original fashions by top designers. Tech Center has basics and advanced techniques.

KNITTING SOFTWARE RESOURCES

Resources for downloading demos and purchasing various knitting software programs.

Design your own cable, braid and bobble patterns with this new software. Demo available.

Makers of Stitch Painter, Garment Styler, and other programs for textile artists.

Design doll and bear clothes as well as dog sweaters.

Download a demo; designs sweaters with lots of options as well as graphics. Resulting instructions are for machine knitters only. charting program

Software for designing knitted garments and stitch patterns for hand and machine knitting, downloading stitch patterns to a knitting machine and interactively following on-screen instructions while knitting. Download a demo here.

For the Passap E6000, this program designs cards in 2 to 4 colors; demo available.

Janet Tombu has released a Windows 95/98 version. You plug in the measurements and it provides the instructions.

Available from Magic Cables, designs sweaters and produces machine knitting instructions.

Dr. Cutter scans pictures and turns them into knitting patterns; KnitPic resizes and reduces the colors of scanned pictures.

Plug in the measurements and this page from Liz Reynolds presents hand and machine knitting instructions for knitting socks!

It's not exactly software but this site actually allows you to design sweaters on-line. Type in the numbers including ease, etc. and the page returns a schematic and instructions!

The Sweater Wizard is a charting program program that will allow you to write patterns for straight and circular knitting.

YARN COMPANIES

The Pittsburgh East Knitting guild does not promote or recommend any yarn or yarn company or yarn store over another. These links are provided here as a means for knitters to contact various manufactures and to access the free patterns they provide on their web pages.

Brown Sheep Yarns, patterns, and a list of retailers that carry Brown Sheep. Free People's Choice Design Awards patterns available online.

Coats & Clark Maker of such brands as Red Heart, Susan Bates, and J.P. Coats. Free patterns available online!

Colinette

Patons Canada's leading supplier of knitting, crochet, sewing, and craft products. Click on "free stuff" for a series of free downloadable patterns, using the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Bernat yarns Maker of such brands as Caress, Cot'n Soft, Lollipop and Softee Baby. Free patterns available online!

Fox Fibre Sally Fox, founder and president of Natural Cotton Colours, Inc., had a better idea to keep cotton natural. Improve the cottons that naturally grow in colors and farm the crop organically.

Halcyon Yarn Halcyon Yarn - a supplier of yarn, fiber, books, and equipment for weaving, knitting, crocheting, spinning, rug making, felting, papermaking, and lace making, plus lots of wonderful crafts for kids.

Interweave Press The publisher of such outstanding books and magazines as Piecework, Spin-off, Interweave Knits, and The TapDancing Lizard. Order books and subscribe to magazines online!

Lion Brand Yarn Lion Brand Yarns, featuring such lines as Jamie, Wool-ease, and Jiffy. Free crochet and knit patterns available online.

Mountain Colors

Plymouth Yarn Company Natural and man made fibered yarns and patterns; check their site for patterns, knitting accessories, bamboo knitting needles, and finding a dealer of their products near you.

Rowan Rowan Yarns - Home of beautiful hand knitting yarns and inspirational knitting patterns.

Solutia Acrylic Craft Yarns The home page of The Smart Yarns (formerly Monsanto). Check here for information on contests and events, free projects for both knit and crochet, a place to ask questions about using Solutia yarns, and information about each of their offerings.

Tahki

This web page lets you create graph paper to size.

This web page presents graph paper directly on the site; print the page and you've printed graph paper.