My dream knitting program for my PDA...

[kaylarudbek]

would be able to file single patterns, magazines, books etc., keep track of the yarn, and have a cross-reference feature that would be able to take "I have x amount of this yarn which has a yardage of z/50 gram" and suggest patterns to me that I already own (in single, magazine or book form) that would use up the yarn, rather than having to hunt through what I own every single time, or be reliant on what books the LYS currently has in stock.

Wonder if some sort of variant on the LibraryThing idea would be possible as well (i.e. a big database of yarn requirements for various patterns...)

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[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

Despite its facelift as part of Access's recent deception never mind--anyway, this guide's content (http://www.access-company.com/support/expertguides/knitting/index.html) has been around for at least a couple years, so perhaps some of its suggestions will run successfully on your Clie! sigh. I read it in its earlier version (though I haven't been using any of it for crochet), and here's a pointer (http://www.techworld.com/mobility/features/index.cfm?FeatureID=985) to the old version that proves its agedness. For once that's a bonus.

(I believe the quotation marks go on "knitting" instead, and that it's <lj user=" "> generally.)

[fyrdrakken]

I liked the Excel suggestion and maybe I'll even try putting it into use that way at one point (though I'd probably just do it on a computer rather than the PDA if I was going to that kind of trouble). Really, it occurs to me that if I'd had the sense to use the pocket Excel program rather than the mobile database program for noting down how many needle sizes I have in which types, I wouldn't have separate databases for sizes sorted into types and types sorted into sizes.

That would be great, though. I'm having that going on now with sock patterns, since I've got that recently-acquired sock yarn stash and don't want to always be doing the same patterns over and over. But I do the (semi-)low tech way, printing out or xeroxing the sock patterns I run across that I think I'm really likely to want to do, and stashing them all together in the bin with the sock yarn so I can flip through them periodically when I debating what kind of sock each skein wants to be.

Lace, now -- a couple of nights ago I was flipping through Victorian Lace Today trying to decide if I could find something I'd be inclined to do with 500 or 1000 yards of variegated laceweight, and the problem was that there were too many patterns I wanted to do, and not sorted by required yardage. (Though if I pulled the same trick on the VLA I did with the Viking Knitting book, and just sat down one afternoon at the printer/scanner/copier to make copies of the pattern pages for everything I thought myself likely to make, the sorting-by-yardage could be done by hand.)