I love my iPhone. I am addicted and I pretty much use it for everything.

I wanted to share some of my favourite crafty apps (applications).

Knitting apps that I love and use are stitch minder and knit gauge.
Stitch minder is a little more than basic row counter. It allows you have simultanous counters like total rows, pattern rows and increase rows. I use it to keep track of how many rows, how many rows of the pattern and how many pattern repeats I have done.

Knit gauge is very cool. I am hopeless at figuring out gauge. Basically knit a swatch, count some stitches and put a pin at either end. Then input the number you counted and move the “sliders” to match up with your pins. It gives your guage for 1,2 and 4 in (also cms). You can use it for row gauge too. So easy.

HiConverter is something that I use heaps. Especially to convert fabric and yarn yardage measurements to metric.  It is a conversion calculator and you can customise it to have all of your most commonly used ones.  It also has a currency converter which will display mutiple currencies at once.  I like it to compare the cost of books on amazon/book depository/fishpond.

I also use pixelpipe to upload photos I have taken with my iPhone to flickr. You can also use it for facebook and other communities too.  It is cool because you can also input the tags and titles as you go.

And Sheridan put me on to bread and milk which is a shopping list. I didn’t like it at first but after spending some time setting it up I have found it to be awesome.

I am a prolific list maker and use todo by appigo to keep my lists in order.  It allows you to have projects and lists of lists and lots of other useful reminders.  Amongst my regular chores and errand lists I have a craft wish list, a craft shopping list and a list of my crafty things “to do”.

Other crafty apps that I use to acess my normal crafty sites are

• Etsy addict
• WordPress
• eBay
• Facebook.

You can find these simply searching the “app store” on your phone or in itunes.

There are also some other sites that are optimised for mobile use which means that when you view them on your iPhone they are reconfigured to be easier to use.  eg Flickr and bloglines.  Basically just type the normal URL into safari and you will be automatically redirected to the mobile site.  I have then bookmarked these pages to my home screen for easy access.

There are so many cool things out there.  Do you have a favourite?

Since I drafted the last post I have been thinking about the handmade pledge that I made.

The pledge was to buy handmade for this holidays. I don’t think that I am actually going to BUY many handmade things at all. Maybe one or two special gifts are from etsy, but the rest is home made. I have made every thing myself.

Do you think that still counts?

Sew Mama sew has the right idea with handmade holidays. Maybe I should have taken that pledge instead.

She has a fantastic list of tutorials now. Everyday is some new theme with three or four ideas on each. I would be surprised if anyone didn’t know about these yet, but I thought I would mention it just in case. (Go have a look here Kerrie)

These are on my to do list for our house (not gifts) AND I am going to make myself one of these lunchbags too. Pretty cute hey.