The highlight bar in the iPhone app

The highlight bar in the iPhone app

The highlight bar is a sage strip across a pattern in the NodeStitch iPhone app

that marks the row you are on. Each tap of + on the main counter moves it

down one line, and onto the next page at the bottom.

Turn it on and place it

1. Open a pattern on the Patterns tab.
2. Tap Settings and turn on Highlight bar.
3. Drag the bar onto your row. Drag the two handles on its right edge to make

it as tall as one line.

It learns your line spacing

If the bar drifts off your row after a few taps, drag it back. The app works

out your pattern's line spacing from that, so it lines up better as you go. To

adjust it by hand, use − and + beside Line spacing in Settings.

Skipping a note or a heading

When your next row is below a note, a heading or a photo, drag the bar down

onto it. Once the app knows your line spacing, a drag of a line or more counts

as a skip, not a fix: the bar moves, the spacing stays the same, and the next

tap moves one line again.

Until the app has learned your spacing, any drag after counting sets it, so

for your first few rows, drag the bar only to put it back on your row.

A line that covers many rows

For a line like "Rows 9–35: sc in each st around", the bar should stay put

until you reach row 36.

1. Count to the first row of that line, row 9.
2. Tap Lock bar, beside your counters. It is there while the bar is on.
3. Type the last row on that line, 35, and tap Lock.

The button then reads Until Row 35 · 26 to go. The bar stays where it is

while you count, and moves to the next line when you reach row 36. If you

count back to 35, it moves back up.

Leave the row empty to lock the bar until you tap the button again. Tap it

while it is locked to unlock it. Resetting the counter ends a lock that has a

row.