It’s been some years since i sewed, and a good many years since the clothes were particularly tailored. A Nancy’s Notions email alerted me to the existence of Pattern Masterâ„¢ Boutique, and the whole realm of clothing design software. Cool! And I quickly found a 2002 overview of products. The Cochenille products run on a Mac. They have a graphing program for crochet, and the garment designer will help with sewn *and* knitted garments. I’ve sent a query about adapting it to crochet garment design.
Could this distract me from playing with GIS? Probably not.
…Later that day i received this response from Sonia at Cochenille:
Because a stitch is a stitch if it’s crocheted or knitted – it works just
fine for both. Depending on how much designing you are going to do – you may
want to look at the possibility of buying both Garment Designer and Stitch
Painter.
Once you design the silhouette in Garment Designer and give it your gauge -
you can then generate a pixel-per-stitch graphic and import it into Stitch
Painter Gold and then design with color or knit and crochet symbols.
*tempt*tempt*tempt*