I’ve been doing a bit of extra cross sew design this yr, and whereas I usually begin by drawing out my patterns by hand on graph paper, finally I would like them to be prettier and simpler to learn than a hand drawn chart could be.
As a result of I’m additionally a knitwear designer, I really purchased a program that makes knitting charts, which I can use for actually fundamental charts. And by actually fundamental I imply single coloration, complete stitches solely. I might present blocks of various colours however they wouldn’t be completely different symbols if somebody needed to print the chart in black and white. I can also’t add issues like again stitching or French knots.
So I’ve been fascinated with whether or not I have to get some design software program that was particularly made for cross sew. Fortunately a lot of skilled designers have used cross sew packages earlier than me and are prepared to share what they’ve realized.
Gathered requested 5 skilled cross sew designers to attempt to overview 5 completely different cross sew design packages, together with one particularly for Macs, two for PCs, one which’s an app, and one, StitchFiddle (most likely the most well-liked one on the market) that’s a cloud-based program you entry by way of a web site.
It’s not fairly the identical as getting opinions of all of the packages from the identical individual, however these opinions are good overviews of the options of the packages. They contact on the completely different thread and image choices, key options, how importing images into this system works and their verdict on how this system works and who it’s best for. The costs are listed in kilos since Gathered is a UK publication.
You’ll be able to take a look at all of the opinions on their web site. It was attention-grabbing for me to learn all of those. Since I take advantage of each a Mac and a PC, I might use any of those, however I’ve to determine the place I’d need to design extra usually to find out which one is finest to purchase (or I might use StitchFiddle anyplace).
When you’ve got expertise with any of those cross sew design patterns I’d love to listen to about it!
[Photo from Cross Stitch Professional Platinum, via Gathered]
