DesignaKnit Knitting Software

DesignaKnit Software
for Knitters and Machine Knitters
Be Your Own Designer with DesignaKnit Knitting Software
Unleash your creativity and take control of your knitting projects with DesignaKnit. Whether you’re crafting intricate patterns or simple designs, this software empowers you to bring your unique ideas to life.
DesignaKnit 9 Complete
Machine Knitting and Hand Knitting

Complete is the Professional Version that includes Hand Knitting module. DesignaKnit 9 now includes the Lace Feature. Everything in one program for the hand & machine knitter or designer who wants it all.
In DAK 9, there are 5 key sections to familiarize yourself with. Begin with Garment Styling to create a basic garment. If you need to adjust the size, design your garment in Garment Styling, save it, and then open it in Original Pattern Drafting to input your specific measurements. Once you're ready to add color or texture to your garment, utilize Stitch Designer to create your desired colors, lace, or textures. You can position garment pieces on a stitch pattern and make adjustments until you achieve the look you want. Afterward, DesignaKnit will automatically make the necessary modifications for printing, downloading, or interactive knitting, ensuring that the final knitted product matches what you designed in Stitch Designer. For a unique design, take advantage of the graphics studio by importing and converting images into knit-able formats.
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DESIGNAKNIT 9 COMPLETE SECTIONS:
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Garment Styling: Select from a range of standard garments, apply standard size tables or your own measurements, and adjust the styling features. Garments designed in this way can be knitted as they are or used as a starting point for your own original design in Original Pattern Drafting.
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Original Pattern Drafting (Not available in DesignaKnit Standard): In Original Pattern Drafting there is almost as much freedom to design shaping as with pencil and paper, and DesignaKnit provides a lot of tools to make it easy and fun. Start with a standard shape from Garment Styling, start with a square, block or geometric shape, or start with tracing a garment shape using a background image. When the garment has been completed in Original Pattern Drafting, it is ready to be integrated with stitch patterns in Stitch Designer, taken into Interactive Knitting, or knitting instructions can be printed out.
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Stitch Designer: Stitch Designer invites you to design stitch patterns on a stitch related grid, across any number of pattern repeats, at almost any tensions, with or without fabric texture visible. Choose from a palette of simple drawing tools or explore the pattern creating features made especially for designing knitwear. The stitch patterns made in Stitch Designer can be displayed on garment pieces in Original Pattern Drafting, or taken into Interactive Knitting, or knitting instructions can be printed out.
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Interactive Knitting: The Interactive Knitting screen shows the row-by-row progress of knitting, whether by hand or with a machine. It can be used for garment pieces or for swatches. Voice instructions or other alerts can be given when a yarn change or edge shaping is required, when markers have been inserted into the shape, when certain stitch symbols or stitch cables are present in the current row of the stitch pattern, or when the knitting technique changes - for example from Tuck to Fair Isle. Almost any knitting machine can be synchronized with Interactive Knitting using an optional cable link. With each pass of the carriage the screen is updated to show the progress of the work. Cable Links are suitable for all kinds of knitting techniques including plain knitting.
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Graphics Studio enables the conversion of standard graphic image files to DesignaKnit stitch patterns. Photographs, scans, screen shots of other software, and graphic art can all be used. It is possible to control exactly how image colors are converted to yarn colors. Yarn colors can be picked from the image - or any shade can be selected. The number of stitches and rows and the number of yarn colors per knitted row can also be entered.
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Complete also includes hand knitting design and charting system, including an extensive collection of stitch cables. Select from 200 hand knitting stitch symbols with abbreviations and knitting instructions. Use as they are or alter the instructions to suit your needs.

DesignaKnit 9 Professional
Machine Knitters Only
DesignaKnit Version that gives machine knitters complete design freedom. DesignaKnit 9 now includes the Lace Feature.
In DAK 9, there are 5 key sections to familiarize yourself with. Begin with Garment Styling to create a basic garment. If you need to adjust the size, design your garment in Garment Styling, save it, and then open it in Original Pattern Drafting to input your specific measurements. Once you're ready to add color or texture to your garment, utilize Stitch Designer to create your desired colors, lace, or textures. You can arrange garment pieces on a stitch pattern and modify their positions until you achieve the look you want. After this setup, DesignaKnit will automatically make the necessary adjustments for printing, downloading, or knitting the integrated pattern, ensuring that the final knitted product matches what you designed in Stitch Designer. For a unique design, take advantage of the graphics studio by importing and converting images into knit-able formats.
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DESIGNAKNIT 9 PROFESSIONAL SECTIONS:
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Garment Styling: Select from a range of standard garments, apply standard size tables or your own measurements, and adjust the styling features. Garments designed in this way can be knitted as they are or used as a starting point for your own original design in Original Pattern Drafting.
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Original Pattern Drafting (Not available in DesignaKnit Standard): In Original Pattern Drafting there is almost as much freedom to design shaping as with pencil and paper, and DesignaKnit provides a lot of tools to make it easy and fun. Start with a standard shape from Garment Styling, start with a square, block or geometric shape, or start with tracing a garment shape using a background image. When the garment has been completed in Original Pattern Drafting, it is ready to be integrated with stitch patterns in Stitch Designer, taken into Interactive Knitting, or knitting instructions can be printed out.
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Stitch Designer: Stitch Designer invites you to design stitch patterns on a stitch related grid, across any number of pattern repeats, at almost any tensions, with or without fabric texture visible. Choose from a palette of simple drawing tools or explore the pattern creating features made especially for designing knitwear. The stitch patterns made in Stitch Designer can be displayed on garment pieces in Original Pattern Drafting, or taken into Interactive Knitting, or knitting instructions can be printed out.
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Interactive Knitting: The Interactive Knitting screen shows the row-by-row progress of knitting, whether by hand or with a machine. It can be used for garment pieces or for swatches. Voice instructions or other alerts can be given when a yarn change or edge shaping is required, when markers have been inserted into the shape, when certain stitch symbols or stitch cables are present in the current row of the stitch pattern, or when the knitting technique changes - for example from Tuck to Fair Isle. Almost any knitting machine can be synchronized with Interactive Knitting using an optional cable link. With each pass of the carriage the screen is updated to show the progress of the work. Cable Links are suitable for all kinds of knitting techniques including plain knitting.
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Graphics Studio enables the conversion of standard graphic image files to DesignaKnit stitch patterns. Photographs, scans, screen shots of other software, and graphic art can all be used. It is possible to control exactly how image colors are converted to yarn colors. Yarn colors can be picked from the image - or any shade can be selected. The number of stitches and rows and the number of yarn colors per knitted row can also be entered.
DesignaKnit 9 Standard
Machine Knitters Only


DesignaKnit 9 Hand
Hand Knitters Only
System Requirements
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Windows XP or later (32-bit or 64-bit operating system), except Windows 10S and Windows 11 Home in ‘S Mode’, which can run only applications downloaded from the Windows Store (which doesn’t offer DesignaKnit).
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DesignaKnit will not run on an iPad or Chromebook.
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Mac owners can install Windows under Parallels and run DesignaKnit in that way.
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Screen size at least 800 x 600 pixels for the DesignaKnit program and at least 720p (1280 x 720 pixels) for on-line video tutorials. We recommend using 1080p (1920 x 1080 pixels) if possible.
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600 Mbytes free hard drive space.
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The optional cable links plug into a computer’s type A USB 1.0, 2.0, or 3.0 socket. (This does not apply to the HandKnit product level).
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Delivery: internet download only.