KNITTING GAUGE CALCULATOR & ROW COUNTER
Your swatch is off. Your sweater won't be.
Stitchwise resizes a pattern to your gauge, spaces increases and decreases evenly across a row, and keeps a row counter for every project on your needles. It runs in your browser, with nothing to sign up for.
Free · Works on your phone · Your projects stay in this browser
(K15, M1) 2 times, (K14, M1) 5 times
Increase 7 stitches evenly: 100 → 107 stitches
From swatch to bind-off
Three small tools, in the order you need them. Each one takes the numbers you already have and gives you the numbers you need next.
-
Gauge.
Knit a swatch, measure it, and find out how many stitches and rows you need to match the pattern's size.
-
Spread.
When the pattern says "increase evenly", get the exact instruction for your row, flat or in the round.
-
Count.
Keep a counter for the rows, another for the cable repeat, and one for each project you have going.
GAUGE
Knit the pattern's size at your tension.
Enter the pattern's gauge and yours, each with its own unit, and the pattern's stitch and row counts. Stitchwise gives you your counts, the width the pattern intends, and how far off you'd be if you knitted it as written. Need the count to fit a rib or lace repeat? Round it to a multiple plus extra.
- Centimetres or inches, mixed freely
- 22,5 works as well as 22.5
- Results update as you type
110 stitches in the pattern → 100 for you
Pattern width 50.0 cm · As written at your gauge 55.0 cm (+5.0 cm)
Multiple of 4 plus 2 → 102 stitches
SPREAD EVENLY
"Increase 7 evenly", written out.
Give Stitchwise the stitches you have and the stitches you want. It writes the row the way patterns do, with the longer runs first and repeats grouped, so you can follow it without dividing on the back of an envelope. It works for knitting or crochet (US terms), worked flat or in the round, and a Copy button puts the instruction straight into your notes.
- Tells you when a change is impossible, and the largest one that works
100 stitches → 107 stitches
(K15, M1) 2 times, (K14, M1) 5 times
K = knit, M1 = make one
ROW COUNTERS
Every counter, for every project.
Start a project and it comes with a Rows counter. Add up to eight counters per project, such as the rows, the cable and the decreases, and give any of them a repeat so it tells you exactly where you are in the motif. The +1 button is big enough to hit without looking away from your knitting. Your most recent project is always at the top.
- Saved in this browser
- Reset and delete always ask first
- Follows your light or dark setting
Aran cardigan, left front
Rows
Rows 41
Cable
Cable 11, Row 3 of 8 · Repeat 2
Try it. This one forgets when you leave; the real one doesn't.
This is the whole thing. Have a go.
This isn't a screenshot. It's the app itself, running right here. Anything you type stays on this device.
Made by someone who knits.
- Each gauge has its own unit.
- The pattern can be in inches while your swatch is measured in centimetres.
- Your decimal comma is fine.
- Type 22,5 and it means 22.5.
- Rows stay as they are.
- Only stitches are rounded to a multiple, because that's where repeats live.
- Crochet maths that's actually crochet maths.
- An "inc" uses up a stitch, and the numbers account for it.
- Nothing to lose.
- Projects save in your browser automatically, and if they ever can't be saved, you're told straight away.
- Nothing to sign up for.
- There's no account, no tracking, and nothing leaves your device.
Cast on with the right numbers.
Open Stitchwise, knit your swatch, and let it do the arithmetic.
Open Stitchwise