Theknitting chart maker that writes out every row

Designing is free and you can start without an account: draw the chart, read the written instructions and run the chart check. Downloading the PDF and using the tracker need an account and an unlock. Your first unlock is free when you sign up; after that you unlock one pattern at a time or go Pro.

Yes. Choose Turn a photo into a chart when the new chart opens, or use the Image tool in the editor. Upload a picture, choose the size and the number of colours, and the chart keeps the picture’s proportions at your gauge. The colours are plain colours lettered A, B, C by how much of the chart they cover; they are not matched to a yarn brand.

Knit, purl, yarn over, M1L, M1R, kfb, k2tog, ssk, p2tog, skp, sk2p, CDD, k3tog, slip stitches (with yarn in front or behind), knit and purl through the back loop, no-stitch squares, and the cables C4F, C4B, C6F and C6B. The chart and the PDF legend use the familiar chart symbols.

Yes. Knitting > Written instructions turns the chart into rows such as "Row 2 (WS): p3 A, p1 B, p7 A, p1 B, p4 A". Wrong-side rows are written as you work them from the wrong side, repeats are grouped as "[k1 A, k2 B] 2 times", and every row shows its stitch count. The instructions come in Swedish, English, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese, with that language’s knitting abbreviations for knit, purl, yarn overs and k2tog.

Yes. Paint as many colours as you like, start from a motif such as the Selbu star, diamonds or waves, and the chart check lists floats longer than about 2.5 cm so you can catch them. The realistic view shows the chart as knitted V stitches in your colours.

You can draw intarsia colour blocks on the same grid and get written rows with the colour letters. There are no intarsia-specific tools such as bobbin counts, and the float advice in the chart check is meant for stranded knitting, so you can ignore it for intarsia blocks.

Yes: 2 over 2 and 3 over 3 cables, crossed to the front or the back (C4F, C4B, C6F, C6B). A cable fills its four or six squares on the chart, is written as C4F or C6B in the row, and the chart check flags a cable that has been cut short.

In the written instructions, repeated groups are written once in brackets with the number of times. In the editor you can repeat a selection across or down the chart, and a motif is placed as whole repeats across the chart. The chart itself does not draw repeat boxes.

Yes. It runs in the browser on phones, tablets and computers, with a Stitches tab next to the colours on a phone, and the tracker is made for following a chart on your phone while you knit.