Free tools · knit & crochet
Tools that do the counting for you, built on the same pattern engine as our patterns. All free, no account, nothing to install.
Knitting & crochet · check
Paint or paste your own colourwork chart and see at once whether it works: floats that are too long, rows with too many colours, a repeat that does not fit, mosaic stitches that stack. Red needs fixing, yellow needs care, and each problem comes with a fix.
Fair Isle · intarsia · tapestry · mosaic · C2C
Check a chartKnitting · letters
Type a name or a year and get a knitting chart centred in your stitch count. It counts the floats for Fair Isle, the bobbins for intarsia and the stitches for duplicate stitch, and shows how the letters look knitted.
EMMA = 23 × 7 sts in tall letters · PNG or PDF
Chart a nameCrochet · letters
A name as a C2C or tapestry crochet graph. For C2C every diagonal row is written out tile by tile, with tiles per colour and yarn; tapestry rows are listed in the direction you work.
EMMA in C2C = 31 diagonal rows, 207 tiles
Graph a nameKnitting · Studio
Stack Fair Isle bands, pick three colours and knit a name across the front. Studio checks every round as you go and gives you the whole pattern as a free PDF, with a 3D preview.
4 sizes · name centred on the front · 3D preview
Design a stockingKnitting · Studio
A drop-shoulder Fair Isle sweater with bands on the body and sleeves, sized from standard body measurements. Cut it open the Norwegian way or knit it with no cutting; Studio writes the pattern and checks every round.
25 sizes, kids 2 to men 5X
Design a sweaterWhich one do I need?
Use the stocking designer. It charts the name, centres it on the front and writes the rest of the stocking around it.
Use the knitting alphabet chart generator. Enter your stitch count and the name is centred in it. It also prints a full A–Z and 0–9 chart.
Use the crochet letter graph generator and pick C2C. Enter the blanket's width in tiles and every row comes written out.
Put it in the chart checker. It marks floats that are too long, rows with too many colours and, for mosaic crochet, stitches that can't stack, with the row, the stitch and a fix for each.
Pick something small with two colours. The reindeer beanie uses two colours in every round and marks every long float for you. If knitting two colours at once feels like too much, knit the stocking plain and embroider the name on afterwards with duplicate stitch.
Every tool and pattern runs on one engine with the same rules. Here is how it checks a pattern, with real examples.