1: From Soup to Nuts

Installing DAK, Adding Folders, Units of Measurement, Help Icon,Undo Icon, New Garment in Standard Garment Styling, Adding Tension

2: From Soup to Nuts

Continuing in Standard Garment Styling: Tension Swatch, Ease Table, Standard Size, Setting Up Custom Size, Saving Garments, Using View: Info, Using View: Body Block, Using View: Show Hidden Seams, Body Styling icon, Neck Styling Icon, Sleeve Head Styling Icon

3: Crockpot Chicken

Original Pattern Drafting: Opening Shapes, Vertical Mirror, Numbering Points, Moving Points, Delete and Add Points, Measuring, Using Add Length and Width Icons, Changing Neckline, Rotating, Magnifying Glasses, Showing Parts of Garment Using the Icons, Making a Modified Drop Sweater, Using the Table

4: Ritz Crackers

Stitch Designer: Open Stitch Pattern, View Thumbnails, Color Palette, Replace Color, Saving As, Removing Unused Colors, Apply Colors, Main/Contrast, Shapes: View Piece, Importing Design, File: Integrate

5: Salad Fixings

Original Pattern Drafting: Separating Pieces Vertically and Horizontally,Joining, Renaming Piece, Rotating, Piece: Copy, Alter:Flip

6: Back to the Crackers

Putting two or more motifs in the same design, Combining two motifs together in the same design, Difference in Import, Import Tile, and Export, Using part of a design, Looking at more than one stitch design at a time

7: Questions and Answers

Adding and Organizing Files and Folders in DAK folders, Understanding “.qpa” files, Downloading and Uploading, Batch and Extracting Batch, Using recordable media to save shapes and patterns

8: White Wine or Red?

Two Forms of Hand Manipulation: Using Stitch Designer and Interactive Knitting with Cables and Manipulated Lace in an all-over pattern or placed in isolated positions

9: Pass the Salt and Pepper

Calculations in Original Pattern Drafting, Working with Diagonals, Seams, Shaping Method, and Markers in OPD

10: Bean Soup

 Interactive Knitting Cables, Printing Options
 [Article 10 on Interactive Cables does not mention several later developments:
1. The Brother cable is now a USB cable. It does not need a second cable to connect the computerto the knitting machine. It works with all machines except the 965 (Knitking V) and the 260 (Punchcard Bulky). Those two machines originally took the Cartridge Free Link and now can be connected with a special cable made only for that type of machines.
2. Silver Reed cables are now Silver Link 4 and Silver Link 5.]

11: Pumpkin Pie

Starting Out in Graphics Studio, Working with Line Drawings, Understanding the various tools

12: Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream

Graphics Studio, Part II, Working with Color graphics, Understanding the various tools

13: How Did You Cook That?

Calculating neckline stitches, Printing a 3-D sweater pattern, Horizontal and Vertical Text in the same garment, Making a tension swatch for Single Motif, Cut and Sew Template in Stitch Designer

14: Cochenille’s Garment Designer and Softbyte’s DesignaKnit: Can These Two Programs Be Used in Tandem

Investigating how these two popular knitting software programs can work together

15: A Question on Grade

Using the Grade feature for garments made in Standard Garment Styler and Original Pattern Drafting