How to Create Knit Patterns in MakeTheDot 🧶

So click on the sketch and click on knit tool.

You've then got a number of different knit patterns.

Just how you can choose from the most standard knit techniques, that we've got in our library.

But also you can pick your own from your library or upload from your computer or from your board.

I'm going to start with like Fair Isle panel.

And then from there we've got various different ways to adjust the placements and the scale of the net.

So firstly we can play with the placement like this.

Okay, let's say I wanted something like this.

I can then scale that in or scale that out.

Make a little bit wider.

I can play with the spacing if I want to change the spacing at all or something like that.

Make that a bit wider like that.

Maybe let's say I want it on the cuffs and the bottom or something like this.

And then once I'm happy, let's click apply and then it's going to create us that knit garment.

But let's do another pattern at the same time while that's being created.

Internet, let's go with more of a cable knit kind of situation.

Now we're going to r.

I'm gonna take the spacing that down to zero.

Now, what do I want to do?

Maybe I wanna, let's make this a real chunky cable knit and let's change the cable knit to go, to go that way right from vertical to horizontal and then get that applied here.

So there's a number of different techniques that you can do within make the dots again.

You can also then add that from your board.

So let's go into here.

Click on board and then it's going to apply that knit from the, from the board.

And then same again.

Make some adjustments to your spacing, any adjustments, your rotation and get that rendered out.

and then here's now how this is kind of coming out.

So that was our initial one that we applied the Fair Isle.

And then we had a bit of a larger one over here with the with the net.

Okay, this is how you create knit on.

Make the dot, go to your sketch and click on the knit tool.

Let's close this.

You've now got most of the common knit techniques in here.

so let's click Dusty Rose.

You can also pick this from your board or from your library.

You can then adjust the scale and the rotation.

So I'm going to make this horizontal.

Just get this lined up here.

So there's no.

I can obviously then do the curve angle, but I want to get, this lined up.

Let's scale this guy back a little bit.

Actually, let's make this a little bit more, A little more scaled in any spacing.

If we want, we can play with that here.

And then let's apply this render here and create this, lace sweater.

Same flow as before where you edit the swatch, get that swatch nice and ready and then apply the swatch onto the garments.

We're working on the assumption that you've got a, you've already made the swatch how you like it.

Let's do another technique while this is rendering.

Let's go for fair eye pattern.

Now let's maybe do a bit of horizontal spacing, sorry, vertical spacing like this.

Move the pattern up here like that.

And then let's get that rendered out.

So that's our lace over there.

And then let's see how our, fair isle comes out at the end.

And again, all of your styles are saved into your library.

ready to be used for tech packs and for, for variants, obviously.

You can see I've done a couple of different knit renders over here.

and let's see how this guy comes out.

And then once it's come out, you can then put it into our, put it into our tech pack and put it into our line sheets.

If I click on details, you now can see this is the start of the start of that, of that process.

So a number of different ways you can, can, can create knit.

I'll show you how you can do it from your board.

Just click board.

Click on this guy.

That was the sweatshirt swatch we created earlier.

And then we can make any adjustments from here and before hitting render.

Okay.

And that's our Fair Isle sweater, and our knit, our lace sweater as well.

So a couple of different ways you can create knit, garments on make the Dark using our new knit feature.