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I own the business Seedling Software. We write software for people who knit using knitting machines. Our best selling program is SweaterMaker for Windows.

SweaterMaker for Windows

SweaterMaker performs all the tedious calculating chores of designing a sweater or knitted shirt or vest, leaving you free to pick and choose the features of the sweater. It gives you pictures with enough details to knit your entire sweater. Or, if you prefer text instructions, it gives you them, too!

Free Knitting Machine Sweater Patterns!

New! See four free sweater patterns that SweaterMaker made! Print them out, knit them up, and decide for yourself how good SweaterMaker is. Start by clicking a link below:

Customize Your Sweater the Way You Want It--or Use Built-in Standards

SweaterMaker gives you plenty of both flexibility and built-in options while you design your sweater.  You specify the following options:

  • Body Style: set-in sleeves, dropped shoulder, raglan, saddle shoulder, horizontal and vertical Dolman (bat wing) sleeves, or round yoke
  • Neck Style: crew, V-neck, crew with placket, or square
  • Front Style: pullover, cardigan
  • Hem Style (along the waist and wrist): 1x1 rib, garter bar, machine crochet, picot, plain, popcorn, and Princess Di hem
  • Trim Style (along the neck): 1x1 single-thickness rib, 1x1 double-thickness rib, pie crust, folded wisteria leaf, rolled edge, 2x2 with roll collar
  • Size: 22 built-in (men's, women's, and child's), plus whatever customized sizes you like. You can even save your custom sizes so you only have to enter the measurements once!
  • Stitch and Row Gauges: knit with your machine, your tension, and your yarn, and SweaterMaker will calculate the number of stitches, rows, increases, and decreases for your sweater. Automatically!

So, let's take a look at some of SweaterMaker's features.

Example: Garment Information Page

The Garment Information Pane is where you define your sweater. You decide what body style, neck style, and so on that you want here, and the other pages automatically change to reflect your choices.

Example: a Front Diagram

A sample of a Front diagram. You can "grab" each of those little red squares with your mouse (when you're running the program directly), and drag the squares in or out. The measurements, row counters, and stitches all change accordingly. Or you can type in the numbers you want in each square, and again, SweaterMaker automatically figures out the other values.

Example: the Measurements Page

The Measurements Page allows you to change specific dimensions of your sweater. This page is handiest if you take your measurements from an existing sweater and simply plug them in here. You may even save these measurements for future sweaters.

Example: Instructions

This picture shows a page of the actual text instructions that SweaterMaker automatically writes for you. Notice the detailed list of back rows and needles in work position section. Ever been called away in the middle of increasing or decreasing? SweaterMaker makes it easy for you to figure out where you left off!

System Requirements. Windows 95 or later (98, NT, 2000, Millennium, XP, XP Pro, Vista, etc), 2Mb disk space.

Order Form.

Due to popular demand, we offer SweaterMaker five ways. Use the handy chart below to determine your total. For packages shipped to a country not listed below, e-mail me first.

Option Product      
1 SweaterMaker: full package (CD and manual) $49.99  
2 SweaterMaker: new purchase, CD only (no manual) $44.99  
3 SweaterMaker: e-mailed setup file only (no CD or manual) $39.99  
4 SweaterMaker: manual only (no CD) $11.99  
5 SweaterMaker replacement CD (registered users onlywe know who you are J) $9.99  
  Option number:   Price:  
  Illinois Sales Tax (IL residents only, 7.75%)    
  Subtotal      
  Shipping and Handling Fees: Free for Option 3!  For all other Options, see the table below. Packages mailed via US Priority Mail.    
  to US $8.00  
  to Canada $12.00  
  to UK $14.00  
  to Australia $14.00  
  for other countries, e-mail me    
      GRAND TOTAL  

Payment. We accept checks, money order, and PayPal (sorry, no credit cards).

  • Send check or your money order to:

Colleen Kobe
1350 W INDIAN TRL APT 9
AURORA IL  60506-6017    USA

Questions? E-mail me! J


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Last modified: October 01, 2008. Please feel free to e-mail me at info@colleenkobestudios.com .