Because I look down my nose at people who are afraid of sharing their precious "trade secrets", and the more eye candy there is in the world, the better. I just hope no one's eyes blister from looking at the ugly tutorial.

Kali is a tiny, free program that can best be described as the adorable love-child of MS Paint and a Spirograph. You can find it here: [link]

I had it on my computer for years before it occurred to me that some of the things one can make in it would be an excellent starting point for knotwork, and once I started experimenting with that, it became rather addictive. As I implied in the tutorial, it works just fine for non-knotwork designs, too.

My advance apologies for any incoherency or misspellings herein. It's the middle of National Novel Writing Month and my brain is dripping out through my ears.