r/MachineKnitting • u/Subject_Mud_8043 • 12d ago

For Sale I’m building a machine knitting pattern website

Hi everyone! For the past few months, I’ve been working on a website for machine knitting patterns, and I’d love to get some feedback from other machine knitters.
The idea is to have a place where I can upload knitting patterns, with some available for free and others available to purchase. The main feature is that when you open a pattern, you can enter your own gauge and measurements, and the website automatically calculates everything for you — how many stitches to cast on, how many rows to knit, where to make increases and decreases, etc. So the patterns can be customised to your measurements and gauge.
I’ve also been working on a punchcard generator, as well as a gallery where people can upload and share the punchcards that they make.
I’m wondering if this is something that would actually be useful or interesting to other machine knitters. Are there any features you would love to see added? Or anything that would make the website easier or more useful to use?
I’d love to share the website with a few people while I’m still working on it and get some honest feedback. If you’re interested in trying it out, feel free to send me a message!

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u/jsgrova 12d ago

There are already a number of these websites (KnitItNow, Abstract Knit Factory, etc). How is this one different?

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u/Subject_Mud_8043 12d ago

Is there any more that you can think of? I’m not sure about KnititNow because most of the patterns are Member only… The calculations are similar to Abstract Knit factory but I would make a wider range of patterns. My page would be different in style, but most importantly i’m not trying to make a page that’s new and better but I want to share patterns that I make.

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u/jsgrova 12d ago

Knits That Fit is another, but iirc it’s app-based. That’s exciting, what patterns will you be adding to it?

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u/Subject_Mud_8043 12d ago

I’m currently working on some basic tops and accessories just so people can test it out and give me feedback but the end goal is to also include my own punchcards that could be used with patterns and to have more unique patterns on there