You can get great results with these kind of apps though and many of the patterns you may have purchased and used in the past could well have been produced using them. There are a mix of ‘hobby-ware’ type apps that are completely free (literally, people creating the software as a hobby or learning experience) all the way to more professional / commercial packages sometimes costing hundreds of dollars but something like $50 is probably what you might be looking at (plus extras for upgrades of course).Īs is often the case with software sold like this there has often been an ‘arms-race’ of adding features to out-do or keep-up with the competition and while this can make apps rich in functionality it can also make them more complicated to learn and difficult to use.īecause of this learning-curve coupled with the cost, these apps may not make sense if all you want to do is convert a single image or two and they are often more suited to people who are producing multiple patterns to sell.

Of course the internet did away with the driving and the disks or CD but it’s still really the same model - you download and install the app for your particular operating system, usually Windows PC or Mac OS but some are available for Android or iOS tablets, and off you go. The established option is to use an app and by that we mean old school, “let’s drive to PC world and buy a box with some floppy disks in it” app.

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