KnitMinder & StitchMinder iPod Application...Free Download

As mentioned in a previous post, I received an iPod for Mother's Day this year and have been busy adding music, knitting, crochet and even exercise (spinning/bike) music poscasts.

Today I found these 2 application for a knitting and stitch minding programme developed by 'Quilt2Go'. These 2 applications have been around for a while and are free with an option to purchase the full Knit Minder at £2.99 at a later date. The Stitch Minder is 'free'. I downloaded both free versions today and have been busy playing.

Knit Minder, is a great record of projects you're working on, or completed with details of the pattern, needles and yarn used. However, I did find it a little limited when adding the colour of the yarns as I'm using a varigated coloured yarn and could only choose a solid colour for the project, but I'm sure this could be sorted at a later stage by the programmer, who incidentally is a Ravelry member.

Also you cannot actually upload pictures from the 'upload pic' icon, but I notice that this blip is to be rectified shortly.

Stitch Minder, is a great little gadget where you can do exactly as it says, keep a track of all your projects, with 'rows completed', pattern row, pattern repeats, increase and decrease row counters. All at the touch of the i-pad. This is great as I regularly take my knitting or crochet projects with me, especially on my little trips to Saad Hospital (dentist) where I always chuck in my iPod incase I want to listen to a knitting related iPod download. But now I can just use it to keep track of my progress as I invariably forget to take pencil and paper and then completely forget where I am in a pattern and spend ages trying to work it out.

I love these little applications and look forward to using them on a regular basis, and will probably download the £2.99 download version, but will continue with the KnitMinder Lite for the time being to get to grips with it.

If you're interested in giving them a go here are the links to copy and paste into your search engine:

http://www.quilt2go.com/

If you would like another review then go here:
http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2008/08/12/stitchminder-free-iphone-knitting-app/