Free tool · crochet graphs
Type a name and get a crochet graph, centred in your stitch or tile count. For C2C it numbers the diagonal rows, counts the tiles and estimates the yarn; for tapestry crochet it writes out every row colour by colour. Download a PNG or print it to PDF, no sign-up.
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EMMA · 23 × 7 tiles in tall letters, 1 tile between lettersMC = background, CC = letters; numbers are tiles. Rows 1–9: increase at both ends. Rows 10–23: increase at the lower edge, decrease at the upper edge. Rows 24–31: decrease at both ends.
Each square of the graph is one C2C tile: a chain-3 and three double crochets, worked on the diagonal.
C2C, tapestry or intarsia
The letters are the same; what you count changes. The numbers below are the generator's own, for EMMA in tall letters.
In corner-to-corner crochet each square of the graph is one tile, a chain-3 and three double crochets, and the rows run on the diagonal from the bottom right corner. EMMA with a plain row above and below is 207 tiles in 31 diagonal rows, about 44 × 17 cm in worsted. The generator writes out every row, tile by tile.
Work single crochet and carry the colour you are not using inside the stitches, so there are no floats at the back. Change colour on the last yarn over of the stitch before. Worked flat, EMMA has up to 16 colour changes in one row and 89 in all; the written rows list them in the order you meet them.
Each colour area gets its own bobbin and nothing is carried. Centred in 45 stitches, EMMA has up to 19 colour areas in one row. Carrying the background yarn inside the stitches and giving each letter one bobbin brings that down to 5.
Reading the graph
Flat, in rows: row 1 is the bottom row and is worked right to left; row 2 comes back left to right, and so on. On the graph each row number sits on the side where that row starts. Crocheting left-handed, start every row from the other side: the graph is the same, read each written row backwards.
In the round: every round is worked right to left, so all the numbers sit on the right.
C2C: start at the arrow in the bottom right corner. Each row is a diagonal: odd rows are worked up towards the top right (↗), even rows back down towards the bottom left (↙). For EMMA: rows 1–9: increase at both ends; rows 10–23: increase at the lower edge, decrease at the upper edge; rows 24–31: decrease at both ends.
Free printable
39 characters in two sizes, one square per stitch or C2C tile. The small number under each letter is its width in squares. Leave 1 square between letters; a space between words is 5 plain squares in tall letters and 4 in small ones.