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Knitting Calculator
Increase evenly • Shaping • Gauge • Yarn
“Increase 10 stitches evenly across the row.” Every knitter knows the sum that follows. Type the stitches you have and how many to add, and Knitting Calculator answers the way a pattern is written: K4, M1, [K10, M1] 6 times, [K9, M1] 3 times, K5. On a flat row no increase sits on the edge stitch, and a picture of the row shows where every one goes.
Increase with M1 or Kfb, decrease with K2tog, write a wrong-side row in purl, or work in the round. Crocheters get the same in sc, hdc or dc, in US or UK terms. For sleeves and waists, spread the shaping over rows — “every 6th row 3 times, then every 8th row 3 times” — keep it on right-side rows, and send the plan to the row counter, which tells you which rows to shape.
From your swatch, get the cast-on and rows for the size you want, fitted to a stitch pattern’s multiple; convert a whole pattern to your own gauge; work out how many skeins of your yarn a pattern needs by yards or metres, and how much is left on a skein from its weight. Needle, hook and yarn-weight sizes in US, metric and UK. Works offline, with no account.
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What's inside
Answers in pattern words
Not a list of numbers: the row comes back grouped the way patterns are written, with brackets and repeats, and every abbreviation in it explained underneath. Copy it or share it as text.
A counter that knows your shaping
Spread increases or decreases over rows, then send the plan to the row counter. On a shaping row it says what to do — “Increase 1 st at each end” — and it always shows when the next one is.
Your gauge, your yarn
Cast-on stitches and rows for any size from your swatch, a pattern’s counts converted to your gauge, and skeins of the yarn you actually bought — by length, never by weight class.
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