Knitting Chart Maker
Paint a colorwork chart or start from a picture. Stitches are drawn at your gauge, so the chart looks like the knitted fabric, and every row is written out in the direction you knit it. Free, nothing to sign up for.
Written rows
How to use the knitting chart maker
- Set the size in stitches and rows, and enter your gauge from your swatch (stitches and rows over 4 inches).
- Paint. Pick a color and click or drag over the grid. Color A is your main color.
- Or import a picture. Choose 2 to 6 colors; the picture is fitted to your stitch count and stretched to your gauge so it won't knit up squashed.
- Knit from it. Print the chart, or copy the written rows if you'd rather follow text.
Why knitting charts need your gauge
A knit stitch is wider than it is tall. At a typical 20 stitches and 28 rows to 4 inches, each stitch is about 1.4 times as wide as it is high. Draw a heart on square graph paper and it knits up short and wide. Here the cells take the shape of your stitches, so what you see on screen is what you'll get, and imported pictures are stretched the other way to make up for it.
How to read the chart
Charts are read from the bottom up. Knitting flat, right-side rows (odd numbers, numbered on the right) are read right to left, and wrong-side rows (even, numbered on the left) left to right. In the round, every round is read right to left. Stitch numbers run along the bottom from the right, and every tenth line is bold to help you count. The written rows follow the same direction, so "Row 3 (RS, knit): 4 A, 2 B" is the order the stitches come off your needle.
Is it free?
Yes. The chart is kept in this browser between visits, nothing is uploaded, and there's no limit on charts or size up to 200 by 200 stitches. Working on a crochet blanket instead? The C2C pattern generator turns a picture into a corner-to-corner graph.