[NFB-Blind-Crafters] Successful Saturday

[Sonya Coulombe]

Congrats Tracy!


Cables sounds so complicated. I know I’ll make them enventually but in no hurry. Hehe ;)


Me, I had a big knitting win… without touching yarn.


I discovered a great IOS and Mac application called Tap Form. There are two version, Tap Form 5 is the last one time payment version while Tap Form Pro is more recent but subscription based.


What it is is essentially a personal database application. Can be very simple to use but it’s also possible to do fairly complex stuff. A lot of people use it to create a inventory of their home, for insurance.


What I did is first create myself a “Stitches Dictionary” form. In that form I created a record for every stitches I know. I include what I learned and read about that stitch but also my own personal notes on how I make that stitch. So if I’m a while without using it and forget, I can reread it.


Then I followed with a “Knitting patterns” form, where I’m in the process of documenting all the patterns I have. Name, category, yarn info, needle info, notes, possibility to attach a file or put a Ravelry website link.

I also created a Projects form. That I linked with the pattern form, indicating which pattern that project is using. And listing the stitches from the stitches dictionary that this project is using.


Next step is a yarn form. That will also be linked with project.

Double fun with me because it will helps so much my knitting workflow and because I miss working with database stuff. :)


I’m sure what I wrote sound intimidating to a lot of people but it can be fairly simple, when not doing links between forms etc. The app is fairly accessible, with a few rougher spots but mostly in the more complex stuff area.


Happy crafting,


Sonya
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Subject: [NFB-Blind-Crafters] Successful Saturday


It’s Successful Saturday!  Have you started or finished a project, or achieved a goal?  Share it with us and we’ll celebrate with you.



My success is I was able to fix dropped stitches and a messed-up cable stitch without pulling out 3 or 4 rows.  I decided it was likely I’d drop more stitches pulling out a lot more cables.  It’s not exactly as it should be, but it’s close enough.  And, after pulling out these couple rows like 3 times, I was able to move on.  Yay!

Tracy


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