Apps for Stitching

I thought I'd share what apps I use that are related to stitching.  All of these particular apps are for Apple (iPad).

For keeping track of my floss, I use XStitcher .  I've already done a review of this app along with ThreadTracker117.  You can read that review here.

Update to the review:  On XStitcher, specialty threads now include Anchor, Gentle Art Sampler Threads (GAST) and Week's Dye Works (WDW).

To keep track of my charts, I use Itemizer.

Itemizer lets you create your own template for what information you want to include.  At the moment, I mainly have just the patterns that I want to do in magazines listed.  For each pattern, I have this information available:

• Name of the pattern
• Category:  Christmas, floral, seasonal, etc.
• Type:  Book, kit, magazine, etc.
• Magazine:  name of the magazine or book - I leave it blank if it's a kit or purchased chart
• Issue:  month and year - blank if it's not in a magazine
• Width:  stitch count
• Height:  stitch count

Once that information has been added, I can use the iPad camera to take a photo of the project for additional reference.

The app has a number of different ways that the patterns can be sorted.  Any of the 7 fields above can be selected for sorting.  If I have a narrow set of scroll frames available, I could choose to sort by Width to find a pattern that would fit them.

You can also view with just thumbnails and the details or with a split screen:  larger images at the top and the list below.

To choose what's next in my rotation, I use Random Master.

I do have a little bit of structure in my rotation.  I choose one project to be my "focus" piece.  That project gets worked on every other time.  Currently, it is La Belle Dame Sans Merci.  For the projects in between, I let Random Master do the choosing.  All I had to do was create a WIP list and then have it choose a Random Item.  Because it's my focus, La Belle... is not in the WIP list.

Random Master does have other options as well:  Random number generator, random dice, or random letter.  For stitching, I don't use these.

I also have Print Paper which lets you print lined, graph and music papers.  This one cost me 99¢.  I don't think I'll be using it much.  I does have 2 different graph papers but there are no options for modifying any of the papers.  I'd love to be able to say 14 squares to the inch for example, but it doesn't let me.