Make a crochet chart, and get the pattern with it
Paint a grid, or upload a photo and let it fill one in. Print the chart, or read it row by row on your phone.
Paint a square. The row rewrites itself.
What you get
- The chart
- A grid you paint a square at a time. Or upload a photo, pick how many colours, and tidy it up by hand.
- Written rows
- Every row spelled out. 12 sts off white, 3 sts plum. Easier to follow on a phone than pinching at a picture.
- A printed page
- Big enough to mark with a pencil. Numbered every ten rows and columns, with a key naming your yarn.
- A picture
- A PNG, to keep or send to someone.
- Row counting
- Step through a row at a time and see which colours you are on.
Also called
Corner to corner, graphgan, alpha, tapestry, pixel pattern. All the same idea: a grid, one square to a stitch, colours making the picture. What differs is how you work it, not how you chart it. This makes the chart. The hooking is yours.
C2C pattern · corner to corner · graphgan · alpha pattern · tapestry crochet · pixel pattern · colour chart · intarsia chart
Questions
Do I need an account?
No. Design a chart, count your rows, print it, download it. An account is only for keeping charts between visits.
Can I turn a photo into a crochet chart?
Yes. Upload it, choose how many colours, and you get a grid. The automatic pass gets you most of the way. The tidying up is where it turns into a pattern.
How do I know how much yarn each colour needs?
The count panel totals every colour in a row, and the printed key totals them for the whole chart. Name the colours after your yarn and those names show up in both.
Can I follow the chart on my phone?
Yes. Export it as written rows and read the text, or step through it in the counter. The screen can stay awake while you work.
What size can a chart be?
Coaster to blanket. Big ones shrink to fit the page when printed, and the numbering stays readable.
Start one
Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for. Charts you want to keep need a plan.