Knitting Graph Paper Drawn to Your Gauge

Graph paper for designing knitting charts, where each cell is one stitch. Unlike ordinary graph paper, the cells are rectangles with the same width-to-height ratio as your knitted stitches, so the design keeps its proportions.

In stockinette a stitch is usually wider than it is tall, so most yarns give more rows than stitches per 10 cm. The exact ratio depends on your yarn, needles and tension, which is why the paper is drawn from your own gauge.

Your own, measured on a washed and blocked swatch in the yarn and stitch you will use. If you have not knitted a swatch yet, the gauge on the ball band or in your pattern is a good start.

The printer scaled the page. Print again with scaling set to 100% or Actual size and check the 1 inch and 1 cm bars. The PDF download usually keeps its size more reliably than printing from the browser.

Yes. Fill in cells with coloured pencils to plan stranded colourwork, Fair Isle or intarsia. For a motif you want to change, try out and turn into written instructions, draw the chart in the app instead.