iPhone knitting
Okay, so of all the things you can do with your iPhone, you can’t actually knit directly with it.. but almost.
Store knitting patterns on your iPhone using Evernote. After trying for ages to find a practical way to use this slightly clunky desktop app/website/iPhone app, I’ve found it’s great for storing patterns I’m currently knitting. Sign up online and create a new note. (You can download the desktop app for either Mac or Windows, too.) Copy and paste the pattern text into your new note. You can even drag a picture into the note, too, which is great for cables/braids or even charts. Install the Evernote iPhone app, login in from your iPhone and you’ll see your pattern there. :-)
Track stitches on your iPhone with Stitchminder. It’s a free app, and despite the slightly garish background of a blue ball of yarn, it works pretty well. Ironically, the preset column counts don’t have a heading for tracking stitches. Instead you can choose from column names like row count, increase/decrease row and pattern row. Make sure to set your Auto-Lock setting (Settings > General > Auto-Lock) to something like 5 minutes, so that you don’t have to unlock everytime you finish a row.
Now all we need is an iPhone app for Ravelry. :-) Any other ways you use your iPhone to help with crafting?
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:55 am
That is so cool! This is the first thing that has really made me want to go buy an iphone!
October 16th, 2008 at 2:41 am
That’s what I also do with my iPhone.
I store PDF files, too.
October 19th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
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January 17th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Evernote is my favorite thing. Ever. It’s like they designed it with knitting in mind.
January 19th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Your Evernote idea was one of the best I’ve heard! After reading this, I went and copied a number of lace and aran swatch charts and some tutorials for complicated techniques, so I don’t have to lug stacks of paper around. Soooo much better than just viewing PDFs,too…Thank you!
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:18 am
Cool iPhone blog, I hope you’re going to do some articles on the iPhone 3G S as well.