Knit
Describe a knit or bring your artwork. Knit chooses the stitch for every area, fits your yarn to your machine’s gauge and writes the knitting program your flat machine runs — for fabric, shaped pieces or a whole garment.
What Knit can take on
Knit reads your design the way a knit programmer does. Every area gets a stitch that holds, every colour a yarn carrier, every float a catch, and every piece its shaping — fitted to your yarn and your machine’s gauge — so the first piece off the machine is the knit you designed.
Red wool sweater with a band of white snowflakes across the chest, fully fashioned.
- Snowflakes knitted as two-colour Fair Isle, the floats caught so they never run long
- Body, sleeves and neck shaped on the machine, piece by piece
- The yarn fitted to the gauge — ends doubled when too fine
- Each size graded and knitted to its own measurements
Every stitch the trade uses
Jersey, rib, interlock, purl, cables, lace, Fair Isle and jacquard, intarsia, tubular jacquard, relief, pile and inlay — each area of the design knitted in a structure that holds.
Yarn fitted to the gauge
Every yarn count is read as one true size and checked against your machine’s gauge: ends doubled when it is too fine, refused when it is too thick. Loop length and fabric weight are worked out for the sheet.
Fabric, pieces or a whole garment
Knit yardage, panels to cut and sew, fully fashioned pieces shaped on the machine, or a seamless garment knitted in one piece on a whole-garment machine.
Ready for the first piece
Each program starts on waste yarn and a draw thread, holds every float with a catch, and is read back before you get it — so the first piece knits as drawn.
What’s in every knit file
Every knit file is one bundle: the program the machine runs, and everything the knitter needs to thread it, set it and check the first piece.
Machine programKnitting program
Every course, needle and carrier, in your machine’s own program language — with its jacquard file where colourwork needs one, and the open knitout file beside it.
Knitting sheet
Gauge14 needles / inch
Structureintarsia
Yarn28 Nm = 54.2 tex
Loop length4.91 mm
K factor1.5
Weight240 gsm
SizeM
Knitting sheet
Gauge, yarn and count, loop length, fabric weight, sizes and pieces — everything the knitter sets before the first course.
PNGFabric preview
The fabric drawn loop by loop in its own structure and colours, so you see the knit before the first course.
Threading list
1Carrier 1 · groundtan
2Carrier 2 · motifbrown
3Carrier 3 · motifdark brown
Threading list
Which yarn goes on which carrier — for intarsia, one end for every colour area — so the machine is threaded right first time.
Runs on your machine
Choose your machine when you start. The program is written for that machine — its gauge, its beds, its carriers and its width.
Flat knitting machines, 5 to 21 gauge
A knitting program in the machine’s own language, with its jacquard file where colourwork needs one, and the open knitout file.
Whole-garment machines
A seamless garment knitted in one piece — sweaters, vests, trousers — on two- and four-bed machines.
Fully fashioned knitting
Pieces shaped on the machine to their size, ready to link.
Cut-and-sew and yardage
Panels and lengths of fabric in any structure, knitted to size.
Circular and warp knitting machines
Coming soon.
Start where your design starts
From a prompt
Describe the knit in your own words — the garment, the stitch, the colours, the yarn. It is drawn first, then programmed for your machine.
From your artwork
Upload a sketch, a photo of a knit or a chart. It is redrawn clean, with its colours set to the yarns you knit.
From a trend
Start from a rising trend. Its colours and motifs carry into a knit made for your machine.
Running a knitting unit?
Get started with Knit
Pro
For growing studios and independent brands. Per month, ₹2,500 to spend each month.
Max
For factories and high-volume teams. Per month, ₹11,000 to spend with a 10% volume bonus.
Prices in INR, excluding applicable tax; shown in your local currency at checkout. Prices and plans are subject to change at PatternAI’s discretion.
Frequently asked questions
What file does my machine get?
Will my yarn work on my machine?
Can it knit a whole garment?
How are long floats handled in colourwork?
Can I see the knit before it is knitted?
Are sizes graded?
How is a knit file priced?
What if my machine isn’t listed?
More on knit and its files
From a prompt to the program your machine knits
Free to start. Pro and Max plans available.