More ways to use your tablet as a knitting tool

This is the last post in a series on the tools I use to make my knitting life easy as pie. In the earlier posts I talk about my needle stash and how I store it, my knitting tool kit, and how I use my iPad to store patterns.

Last week I wrote about how I use my tablet to store all of my knitting patterns, so that I always have them with me in case a bout of startitis sets in. In response, Tracy wrote "I skip the scanner and use the app DocScanHD on my iPad to copy any paper patterns I have. It allows you to size, correct and store pdfs, no more scanner needed, just the iPad!" Great idea! 

In addition, Kat wrote, "The best tool ever for knitting patterns, especially charted patterns, is knitCompanion (available in the Apple Store). . . You can sync it with Ravelry, so you have your entire Rav Library with you. It keeps track of where you are in the pattern (even when you close the app, or put the project in your project bag and forget it for several months). You can highlight increases, decreases, things you need to keep track of (in different colors). It makes charted lace (with patterning on the knit side and the purl side) simple. It is seriously a knitter's best friend."

I haven't tried knitCompanion (yet), but I have used another app for the iPad called JKnit. JKnit definitely has a learning curve, but once I figured it out I found it pretty easy to use. Once you've put in the pattern information, it both counts your rows and gives you row-by-row instructions. It doesn't support charts, though.

If you're interested in exploring knitCompanion and JKnit further, this handy blog post reviews them both—and it talks about GoodReader, which I mentioned last week, as well.

You may also be interested in this list on Ravelry of all the third-party apps that you can connect to your Ravelry account to provide mobile access to various kinds of information. 

Huge thanks to Tracy and Kat for getting in touch!

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