Wow!!! Your tutorial was AMAZING! I loved visually your repetition throughout it really drilled it in for me!! Your a phenomenal teacher!! Your grandchildren are beautiful!!! Thanks isn’t enough…my heart is grateful for you taking the time to create this tutorial!! Just started cross-stitching after 30 years and the stitchy world has changed SoOo drastically….for the good and this app has rocked my world!! Thanks again! ❤️❤️God bless you!! Hugs - christine

@NeedleBugg

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! I want to let you know that since I made this video on Knit companion there have been much better apps released to use for cross stitch. you may want to check out Pattern Keeper and MarkUp R-XP. they are specifically made for cross stitch and put your chart together as 1 big chart.

Two years later and this instructional video was amazing! Thank you so much. Purchased Knit Companion based on your video and followed you every step of the way. Magic! There appears to be an update to ease the alignment. After cropping and following the next step where everything turns yellow (in my case it turned red), if you tap the little 'magic wand' it miraculously aligns everything. Was able to convert a 20 page chart into one in a matter of 15 minutes. Thank you again!

Thank you so so much for your clear and calm explanation of how to use this program. Love your voice too 😊

A massive thank you to you as well as Jan. I have just bought this today, and I am loving it. I've even managed to figure out how to do a custom key, and rename the pages (which is super helpful going forward to aligning them). I just paid for my set up and essentials straight off after both of your videos. I owe you such a personal debt, because I have nailed diagonal stitching and now have this tool. Hugs x

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Sussex Stitch Witch how wonderful. You have even figured out somethings i havent even played around with yet. It is a wonderful app.

I want to send you flowers and chocolates. I have been using Goodreader and I hate change But since I love your posts so much I figured I'd listen. And then I saw it all on one page and I just about died OMG so Awesome. I watched Jan Hick who (no offence) sort of confused me but this was EXACTLY what I needed to get me past my fears. I'm going to sit in front of TV tonight and transfer my two SSMCs and my regular over. You brought me into diagonal, into goodreader, and now another life changing discovery. Wow you are just amazing.

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Adrienne Smith so very glad you found this helpful. KC really is a game changer. When I realized all it could do my reaction was exactly the same OMG!!!! Good luck with setting up your projects and have a great time stitching❤️

Just watched your tutorial and found it very helpful. Thank you.

Oh my this was a fantastic tutorial! I followed right along with you - paused when I needed it. I got 5/74 pages of my Farewell to Anger HAED pieced together, and learned so much! Thank you for demystifying it for us and for the time it took to put this together!

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Carolyn Zook awesome!!! So very happy you found this helpful. It has been my pleasure to put this together❤️

Fabulous tutorial! I am definitely saving it to refer back to. I hope your arm is healing nicely. Have a great weekend!

I wished you kept it more in front of the camera, but other than that you did an awesome job. Thank you very much

OMG Karen I could just hug you right now!!! I was almost in tears not getting my pages to align properly and the yellow grid was the key!!! ❤️❤️ thank you !!!!

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Lov2stich Two glad to be of assistance! That yellow grid feature is awesome. Makes all the difference

Unbelievably helpful!

Hi, big thanks for the video!!! It is very helpful. I spent a lot of time for doing it wrong, because I didn’t know about this feature with lines

@NeedleBugg

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome! but are you aware there are much better programs out there for cross stitch. you may want to check out Pattern Keeper or Markup R-XP they put the chart together for you.

@TH000ful

Жыл бұрын

@@NeedleBugg other thanks) Markup is cool on iPad.

Bless you!

I was laughing because my first question is how do you put your HAED into knit companion? You need to glue your iPad to your table, lol it keeps moving to the left and I was trying to move it to the right with my mouse duh.... too funny. I broke my arm on Jan. 29 and I had surgery for a plate February 14 so I understand your frustration. Best wishes and thank you so much. I am buying the app today. I never used the parking method or the diagonal, this app will be so helpful.

DON'T BOTHER WITH THIS PROGRAM IF YOU USE ANDROID. THE SETUP OPTION IS **** NOT AVAILABLE **** ON THE ANDROID VERSION. I appreciate the time you took to put this video together. I was excited to use it... now I'm just mad. Lol. Not your fault... but I'm sure there are others out there like me who only have androids.

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Leah Ley i am soooo sorry. I did not know at the time i made this video that the setup option was not available for android users. Hopefully the developers will work on that since i am sure there are many android users that would live to use this app. Again my apologies

@LadyReddK

4 жыл бұрын

@@NeedleBugg no need for you to apologize!! Totally not your fault. I'm not sure why they would offer such a half a*s version... why bother?! lol Back to the highlighter and paper for me...lol

Hi Karen, I have been using Knit Companion for a while now with my cross stitch. I am in the Diagonal Facebook group as Brekke Wyrenth. I have some tips and tricks I'd like to share with you that expand on the usage of the program. They cover how to grid when you scan in a pattern, how to grid with a skewed photo of a pattern, and some tips for a large HAED. Would it be okay if I forwarded the emails I shared with Jan? One tip I think you could use in your tutorials is that when you are setting up the grid and you need to adjust one little bit, you can tap next to the purple border on either side and it will move just a hair. This way you will minimize the errors you make while dragging. This is an excellent video. Thanks for sharing.

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Kathr Clann absolutely it is ok for you to share your tips and tricks. I am thrilled. My email is KLBugg@gmail.com. Thank you so much. I am new to knit companion and really just learning this program. So any advice is much appreciated. I am just so happy to find something for those of us that are iOS users. People that use Windows have Cross Stitch Saga. However i did not want to give up my iPad. Happy as a kid in a candy store🤩😍

hi Caren,thank you for the video I learned a lot from your video with knit companion I made a second chart with the cropped version off the collar key so you have only 2 pages en have all the symbols next to another thankxs. pascale

This is completely new to me. I've been cross stitching for years but have always used physical patterns by scanning them into my laptop and printing them out. The tutorial is great and I'm certainly going to give it a try. I'm just wondering what the diagonal lines that you put in yellow are for? Thanks very much.

@NeedleBugg

Жыл бұрын

Linden. There are now much better apps for marking off your charts. Pattern Keeper - which is an android only app. And Markup-R-XP. Which is both android and iOS. They are both really good. The yellow diagonal lines are for stitching diagonally. Meaning stitching line by line. 10 stitches wide down the chart. Each row you start one stitch to the left and end one stitch less on the right. So you end up with a diagonal line. There are videos on my channel just search diagonal stitching

@lindenproud958

Жыл бұрын

@@NeedleBugg Thanks very much for telling me about Markup R-XP. I downloaded the app and am loving it. It's so much easier to see than a small chart. Very much appreciated. 👍

I purchased a few PDF patterns off of Etsy. Do I need pattern maker or any of the other apps to get this to transfer? Or can it be done just using dropbox? Is dropbox something I have to download or is it already on the iPad? Thank you. All your videos are helpful!

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Lisa C you do not need any other apps to get PDFs to transfer. KC will read the pdf. I had to install Dropbox. All my PDFs are stored in Dropbox so I just load them into KC from there. HTH I

@lisac39

4 жыл бұрын

Okay. So I will install dropbox and then add the patterns there. Then use that to go into KC! Sounds a lot simpler than all the different things you have to try to do to get some of the others to transfer from pdf. Thank you so much Karen. U the bomb. Lol

I have come up with another question on this. Seems for me, when I’m aligning pages, once I get to another row, they don’t look like they line up right and I’m left guessing. I’ve got about 20 pages in each time, and one doesn’t line up right and I’m left starting from the beginning. So, is there a way to out say 5 pages together to start with diagonal work, and when you get to a point of needing more pages, just put them in? Or does it erase everything when you do that?

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Sadie Shaw it will erase evening if you try and add pages later. I just found out if you added a page and saved it and it didn’t line up correctly you can recoup that same page and add it again lining it up and it will overwrite the one that was wrong. So you don’t need to start over. Just redo the page. Be sure when cropping you make your page really big and use the grid to line things up. After you click on align sometime it does look a bit wonky and you can’t get it perfect. But when you click on save it does line up the way it should. At least it did for me. Hope that helps

@Sadalicious

4 жыл бұрын

That’s exactly what I needed. I will just recrop the page, and realign it.

Thank you for doing this tutorial I was wondering how you fix your mistakes say you highlighted the wrong stitch by accident.

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Southernspinner just tap on that square again and the highlight goes away.

once your pages are cropped can you bring the saved file into another program. how long have you have the program the subscription is @19.99/yr

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Roseanne Rosenblum i really am not sure if you can load the file into another program. I will test it out and see what happens. I have had the app for only about 2-3 weeks. So i am learning just like everyone else.

It’s a shame allot of this was off the screen and couldn’t be screen.

Is there a way to mark alot of stitches at one time or do i have to press each square as i go?

@NeedleBugg

Жыл бұрын

Oh Stevie to be honest I don’t remember. It was such a long time ago that i used this app and much better ones have come along. You might want to check out Pattern Keeper. ( for android) or Mark-upR XP for both Apple and android. Both are awesome apps with great features

@marinewife4life1989

Жыл бұрын

@@NeedleBugg Thank you for responding! I will definitely check out the other apps! 😃

Hello Karen,, I have my patterns in KC but is there another version? I purchased the Essential and I follow your instructions as well as Jan and I do not have the crop feature on my android. What I have is 2lines one on the left & bottom and they are the length of the page. My brain was hurting last night, lol. I'm so disappointed. Thank you and have a good day.

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Oh Jaline, I am so sorry. I just found out late last night that setup is not available in the android version 😰. Only the iPad version. So you may want to cancel your essentials subscription before the trial period runs out. This app was written for iOS and they just recently made the android version. The plan is for it to be the same but they are not there yet. Please accept my apologies for your inconvenience

@jaline9091

4 жыл бұрын

@@NeedleBugg I can't believe it but at least I know my brain is functioning. Thanks for letting me know.

@LadyReddK

4 жыл бұрын

I just bought the program and am JUST now realizing that this functionality is NOT available on android. I bought an android tablet specifically for this purpose. I'm so mad. KC should be WAY more transparent about this.

@jaline9091

4 жыл бұрын

@@LadyReddK Well I bought an iPad would you believe it, lol. The Shopping Channel had their 12 payments sale. I'm waiting for it with anticipation and guess what will be the first thing I will do when I receive it! KC better works.

What’s your favorite app on iOS to use, if you have one?

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Shaina Wright up until now i was a dedicated good reader user. But since i found knit companion that is my new fav.

Karen, I am so disappointed to find out that Essentials is not available in the Android version. I contacted KC Support and received that response from the help file. It simply indicates that the company is monitoring android upgrades for future compatibility. What that means is I can still use edit but not settings.

@taelnes1205

4 жыл бұрын

FYI - I am not able to concatenate or set up custom markers. The free version has a sliding highlighter which will not generate diagonal highlights. It does not allow you to tap a single stitch to highlight nor to have multiple highlights. It is not a program that will be useful to me on the Android, although, if the company does make Essentials available, I would love to retry. It does look to do all the things for the Ipad.

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

I just read on the group that they are monitory the android version and the goal is to have it work the same as the iOS version but they are not there yet.

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

I just read on the group that they are monitory the android version and the goal is to have it work the same as the iOS version but they are not there yet.

@miat789

3 жыл бұрын

If you have an android just get pattern keeper its a lot better than this program.

Good tutorial but most of the time we can’t see what your doing because the camer is showing your cutting mat join , not you iPad screen hope you are able to correct that for the next tutorial. The information you shared was great, but visual was not good. Thanks for the time you spent to try and teach us. You’ve convinced me I should get the program and learn to use it.

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Crafty Kat will be doing another in the next few days. Learned some new things to make it even easier and prevent to app from crashing. Sorry i was off camera so much. The next one will be better. I promise😬

@craftykat1634

4 жыл бұрын

The Needle Bugg Karen Bugg you did fantastic. I went straight after watching and got the app and started loading in charts via my Dropbox. I don’t have any multiple page PDFs yet. I have three charts in paper I bought so will be scanning them into pdf format, putting in Dropbox then load kc and see how well I do stitching the pages into a single chart. Wouldn’t of attempted it without you kind instructions. Saved you video so I can come back and follow it as I make my attempt. Will do when on vacation next week as I do my fall house cleaning, and making a few project bags I promised for Jan’s 5000 subscriber give away. Just waiting on the fabric to arrive I had to order.

Frustrating...... I have like 4 pages left to add and my app keeps crashing......... I love it when it works....

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Blonde Pixie Designs please contact the creator of the ap and let them know that it crashes for you. I am hearing about this happening to others. Also am hearing others say that when marking off your stitches the more you mark the slower the app is getting. So we need to keep making them aware of what happens. I dont think they realize to what extent we are using this app. Charts that can be 70 + pages etc. i am sorry you are having this problem

I noticed I was halfway into putting my pages together and I had one section/page off by one row...How can I fix that? I would love to be able to delete that section and do it over but all I could delete is the whole piece. I can't figure it out so I am redoing it.

@NeedleBugg

4 жыл бұрын

Barbara Hosford i havent used knit companion in a while. Since Pattern Keeper. However if i remember correctly. You can just redo the page you had off by 1 row and rejoin it over the incorrect on. When you place it to join. Put it on top of the one that is wrong. That should work.