Knitting iCharts – ENGLISH Version
Welcome to the support site of „Knitting iCharts“ the ultimate iPad/iPad Mini app for designing your own knitting pattern charts!
Content:
- Important Hints First
- Short Instruction
- How to Continue
- Icons and their Meaning at a Glance
- Knitting Symbols at a Glance
1. Important Hints first:
We’ve added a specific amount of knitting symbols which are used most frequently. If you are missing symbols or have suggestions for improvements please send us an Email to mail@j-s-designs.de and we’ll add your missing symbols and deal with the improvements.
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2. Short Instructions:
Most people are bored by first reading a manual before dealing with a new software. So I decided to write down only a short one, which shows you the first steps of making a new chart. You’ll find out the rest intuitively, I’m sure! What to do for creating a new chart:
- Tap on this icon in the upper menu bar:
- Tap on „New chart“:
- Fill in a name for your new chart and configure the amount of rows/rounds and stitches. Save!
- Tap on each box of the chart to fill in symbols:
- Chose a symbol in the symbol bar. This bar can be slid to the left and to the right.
- In this box you can see the abbreviation for the stitch you’ve chosen. While tapping on this box a detailed explanation appears.
- Tap on the yellow box for chosing another color (if you want to knit with different colors, f.e.). Tap on „Done“ afterwards.
- Tap any box you want to have your chosen color.
Finished!
3. How to continue:
You can share your chart in different ways. Share it on facebook, send it in an email or save it in your dropbox account or foto roll. The app will share not only the chart but also a legend with all of the symbols you have used. Here’s an example:
Tap on this icon:
Choose, how you want to share your chart, in my example I send it in an email. Tap on „Email“ choose the right one in the list and then tap on the envelop on the top right:
An email will open in wich you can see the picture of your chart and its legend. Fill in the addressee, write a text (optional) and then send it.
All other sharing methods are working in the same way, so you can try them all out. 
4. Icons and their Meaning at a Glance:
I don’t need to explain much more, the app should be used intuitively. But here’s a digest of all icons and their meaning we’ve used in this app. If you have any question please feel free to contact us by mail with the address I’ve wrote on the top. We’ll try to help as soon as possible!
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This box shows you the kind of stitch you’ve chosen as an abbreviation. Tap on it and a little window will open with a closer description of what kind of stitch it is. In this case you could read „knit stitch“ in it. At the end of this manual you can find a table with all symbols and their description. If you are missing one, please write an email to mail@@j-s-designs.de and we will add them asap.! | |||
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This switch allows you to change from symbol-writing mode to color painting. The blue side shows you what’s active at the moment. In this case you would write symbols. Tapping on the color palette you will change to coloring mode. | |||
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This box shows you which color is picked. Tap on this box and a new window will open. You can choose another color in it. If you are missing a color, please send us a note to mail@j-s-designs.de and we’ll add them. | |||
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Oh no, there a re too many rows or not enough stitches?? Don’t worry! Just tap on this icon and another window will open in which you can choose what to do next. Oh, please tap on the writing, not on the icon! 😉 | |||
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Add left column (stitch) |  |
Delete left column | |
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Add right column (stitch) |  |
Delete right column | |
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Add top row |  |
Delete top row | |
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Add bottom row |  |
Delete bottom row | |
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This is the icon you’ll probably use the most. Tapping on it allows you to: – Create a new chart: |
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This is the „Share“ button. Here you can share your charts together with its appropriate legend either – on Facebook:
– Send it by Mail:
– Save it in your camera roll:
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Here you can find the manual, but as you are just reading in it you obviously found it out by yourself. You are thinking along, I like that! 😉 | |||
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This info button shows you trivia about Knitting iCharts. You can reach the support site from here and find an email link, too. | |||
5. Knitting Symbols at a glance:
Here’s an overview of all symbols of stitches the app contains. If you are missing a symbol please feel free to contact us by mail!
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Delete content |
Deletes color as well as symbol in this field |
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Delete symbol |
Deletes the symbol in this field |
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Delete color |
Deletes the color in this filed |
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k |
knit stitch |
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p |
purl stitch |
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yo |
yarn over |
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k1b |
knit 1 into the back of the stitch |
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p1b |
purl 1 into the back of the stitch |
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m1 |
make 1 st by picking up the horizontal loop between sts and knitting into the back of it |
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m1p |
make 1 st by picking up the horizontal loop between sts and purling into the back of it |
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sl k |
sl knitwise |
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sl p |
slip purlwise |
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sl p-b |
slip purlwise with yarn behind the stitch |
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sl p-f |
slip purlwise with yarn in front of the stitch |
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k2tog | knit 2 sts together |
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psso |
slip one st, knit the next, pass the slipped st over the knitted one |
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ssk |
slip, slip, knit – slip the two sts separately knitwise, insert the left-hand needle point through the fronts of the slipped stitches and knit them together from this position |
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kfb |
knit into the front and back of the stitch |
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3-1 psso |
sl 1 knitwise, k2tog the next 2 sts, then pass the slipped stitch over the knitted ones |
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3-2 psso |
sl 2 sts as if to k2tog, k the next, then pass the slipped sts over the knitted one |
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mb1 |
[k 1, p 1] 2x out of the next st, [turn, p4, turn, k 4] 2x, turn, p 4, turn, sl next 2 sts knitwise, k2tog the next 2 sts, pass the slipped sts over the knitted ones |
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rT |
right twist: k2tog but let them on the left-hand needle, k into the 1st st one more time and pull out the left-hand needle |
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lT |
left twist: sl 1 st knitwise, sl the next st knitwise, put them back onto the left-hand needle. k1b the 2nd st, then k2tog both sts into the back |
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c2f |
sl 1 st onto a cable needle, put it forward, knit the next st, then knit the cable needle st |
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c3f |
sl 2 sts onto a cable needle, put it forward, knit the next st, then knit the cable needle sts |
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c4f |
sl 2 sts onto a cable needle, put it forward, knit the next 2 sts, then knit the cable needle sts |
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c5f |
sl 3 sts onto a cable needle, put it forward, knit the next 2 sts, then knit the cable needle sts |
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c6f |
sl 3 sts onto a cable needle, put it forward, knit the next 3 sts, then knit the cable needle sts |
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c7f |
sl 4 sts onto a cable needle, put it forward, knit the next 3 sts, then knit the cable needle sts |
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c8f |
sl 4 sts onto a cable needle, put it forward, knit the next 4 sts, then knit the cable needle sts |
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c2b |
sl 1 st onto a cable needle, put it backwards, knit the next st, then knit the cable needle st |
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c3b |
sl 2 sts onto a cable needle, put it backwards, knit the next st, then knit the cable needle sts |
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c4b |
sl 2 sts onto a cable needle, put it backwards, knit the next 2 sts, then knit the cable needle sts |
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c5b |
sl 3 sts onto a cable needle, put it backwards, knit the next 2 sts, then knit the cable needle sts |
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c6b |
sl 3 sts onto a cable needle, put it backwards, knit the next 3 sts, then knit the cable needle sts |
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c7b |
sl 4 sts onto a cable needle, put it backwards, knit the next 3 sts, then knit the cable needle sts |
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c8b |
sl 4 sts onto a cable needle, put it backwards, knit the next 4 sts, then knit the cable needle sts |
And now „Happy Designing!“
Jutta und Peter Schneider