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Crochet chart maker: design C2C, tapestry and filet charts

Draw your design square by square, or start from a picture, and the chart maker writes the rows for you: color changes for tapestry and graphgans, diagonal rows for corner to corner, blocks and spaces for filet. No account; your chart stays in this browser.

Edit colors:

Example: a two-color heart, with its written rows beside it. Paint over it, or press Start blank.

Saved in this browser. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Finished size

About 12.5 × 11.1 cm (4.9 × 4.4 in)

Your gauge

Example gauge. Crochet a small swatch in your yarn and stitch, then type in what you count.

Squares per color

  • A: 214 squares
  • B: 114 squares
  • C: 72 squares
  • D: 0 squares

Written rows

Row 1 is the bottom row of the chart. Letters are the colors above.

  1. Row 1 (right to left): 20 A
  2. Row 2 (left to right): 9 A, 2 B, 9 A
  3. Row 3 (right to left): 7 A, 6 B, 7 A
  4. Row 4 (left to right): 6 A, 8 B, 6 A
  5. Row 5 (right to left): 5 A, 3 B, 4 C, 3 B, 5 A
  6. Row 6 (left to right): 4 A, 3 B, 6 C, 3 B, 4 A
  7. Row 7 (right to left): 3 A, 3 B, 8 C, 3 B, 3 A
  8. Row 8 (left to right): 3 A, 3 B, 8 C, 3 B, 3 A
  9. Row 9 (right to left): 2 A, 3 B, 10 C, 3 B, 2 A
  10. Row 10 (left to right): 2 A, 3 B, 10 C, 3 B, 2 A
  11. Row 11 (right to left): 2 A, 3 B, 10 C, 3 B, 2 A
  12. Row 12 (left to right): 2 A, 3 B, 10 C, 3 B, 2 A
  13. Row 13 (right to left): 2 A, 4 B, 3 C, 2 B, 3 C, 4 B, 2 A
  14. Row 14 (left to right): 2 A, 16 B, 2 A
  15. Row 15 (right to left): 3 A, 14 B, 3 A
  16. Row 16 (left to right): 4 A, 5 B, 2 A, 5 B, 4 A
  17. Row 17 (right to left): 20 A
  18. Row 18 (left to right): 20 A
  19. Row 19 (right to left): 20 A
  20. Row 20 (left to right): 20 A

Print or save the chart

The chart fits on 1 page of A4, portrait, with 5 mm squares. With 1 page of written rows: 2 pages to print.

Print at 100% or Actual size, not Fit to page, so the squares keep their size: each page has a 5 cm bar to check. The SVG opens in Inkscape, Illustrator or Affinity Designer with the numbers as text.

Yarn for each color

Crochet a swatch in each yarn, count its squares and weigh it, and the chart maker turns this chart’s squares into the yarn and the balls to buy for each color.

Buy 3 balls: A 1, B 1, C 1.

Add a price for each ball to see the cost. Prices stay in this browser.

The numbers are an example: replace them with your own weighed swatch, your yarn’s ball size, and any leftovers and prices.

Color A

214 squares on the chart

1 ball: needs 11.1 m (6.5 g) with your 10% extra; 158.9 m to spare.

Color B

114 squares on the chart

1 ball: needs 5.9 m (3.5 g) with your 10% extra; 164.1 m to spare.

Color C

72 squares on the chart

1 ball: needs 3.7 m (2.2 g) with your 10% extra; 166.3 m to spare.

Your numbers and prices are saved in this browser only.

Weighing for an honest amount
  • Weigh the swatch dry, without its tails, on a scale that reads to the gram or finer; a bigger swatch gives a steadier number.
  • Tapestry crochet carries the colors you are not using inside the stitches, so each carried color uses yarn on every stitch it travels through. Swatch the same way you will work, and weigh what each color used.
  • Leftovers count only for the same yarn and color. Weigh them without the cardboard core or bag; the yarn remaining calculator takes the core off for you.
  • Borders, tails, fringe and seams are not in the squares or rows: add them to the allowance or as their own color.
  • Buy each color from one dye lot. A price you type is never sent anywhere and no shop price is shown here.

Which chart type to choose

Color rows suit tapestry crochet and graphgans: each square is one stitch, usually single crochet, and the rows list the color runs in working order. Row 1 is worked from right to left for a right-handed crocheter, and flat rows turn, so every other row reads the other way. Mosaic crochet reads its charts differently, with dropped stitches: see mosaic crochet.

Corner to corner turns each square into one C2C block (a chain 3 and three double crochets). The written rows follow the diagonals from the bottom corner: they grow by one block until you reach the shorter side, then shift, then shrink to the last corner.

Filet squares are either a block (filled) or a space (open). Each square is a double crochet followed by two double crochets for a block or chain 2 for a space, with one more double crochet closing the row.

Start from a picture

Press Start from a picture, or drop a photo or drawing on the chart, and the chart maker turns it into squares in the yarn colors you choose. It keeps the picture's shape at your gauge and leaves the result open for you to paint over. The picture to crochet pattern page explains how to choose a picture, a size and the number of colors.

Selecting, flipping and repeating

Choose Select and drag over the chart to pick a block of squares. Copy and Paste place it somewhere else; Flip sideways and Flip upside down mirror it where it is, which is how you draw one half of a symmetric motif and finish the other; Repeat across and Repeat up fill the whole width or height with it, for a border or an allover pattern. Each is one step of Undo.

Finished size

Crochet stitches are rarely square, so the chart's squares are not your finished shape. Type the stitches and rows your swatch has in 10 cm (or 4 inches), and the chart maker gives the finished width and height; tick Draw the chart at this gauge to see the chart in its real proportions.

Print a large chart you can read

A big chart squeezed onto one sheet ends up with squares too small to follow. Choose the square size instead (5 mm is easy to read), and the chart maker splits the chart over as many pages as it needs and tells you how many before you print. Every page keeps the chart’s own row and stitch numbers on all four sides, the color key with whole-chart counts and a letter in each square, so a black-and-white printer loses nothing. Pages that meet share two rows or columns, shaded in the numbers, to line them up and tape them; a first page shows how they fit together, and the written rows follow the chart. Each page also has a 5 cm bar: if it measures short, the printer shrank the page, so print at 100% or Actual size.

Squares print square by default, which is easiest to read. Tick Squares the shape of my stitches to print them at your gauge’s proportions, or choose The crocheted size to print the chart as big as the finished piece, to lay your work on. With part of the chart selected, the print can outline it as the repeat or print only those squares.

Save and share

Your chart is saved in this browser as you draw. Download the PDF, an SVG (it opens in Inkscape, Illustrator or Affinity Designer with the numbers as text, ready for a pattern of your own) or a PNG with a key to the colors and the finished size, or copy a link: the link holds the whole chart, so anyone who opens it sees your design. Very large charts make long links.

Yarn for each color

The squares of each color tell you how much of the chart it covers, not how much yarn it takes: stitches in another yarn or worked with carried strands use more. Crochet a swatch, count its squares and weigh it, and the chart maker gives each color’s yarn and the whole balls to buy, after any leftovers you have, with your own prices if you add them.

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