Knitting Graph Paper
Chart paper with cells the shape of a real stitch, set from your own gauge, so what you chart is what you knit.
Chart paper with cells the shape of a real stitch, set from your own gauge, so what you chart is what you knit.
Choose Knitting Graph Paper from the list. It opens with the usual size already set.
Pick the paper size, the grid and the orientation. Customize holds colours, margins and more.
Download the ready PDF, or print straight from the page at 100% scale.
In stocking stitch you get roughly 22 stitches and 30 rows over 10 cm, so a stitch is about a third wider than it is tall. Chart a circle on ordinary square graph paper and knit it, and you get an oval squashed vertically. This trips up almost everyone the first time.
Knitting chart paper solves it by making the cells the same proportion as the stitches. The chart looks like the finished fabric, which means you can judge a motif before casting on rather than after.
The default of 22 stitches and 30 rows per 10 cm is a common worsted-weight stocking stitch gauge, but yours will differ with yarn, needles and tension.
Every sheet here is free, adjustable and prints at exact scale.
Knit a swatch at least 15 cm square in the yarn, needles and stitch pattern you will use, then count the stitches and rows in a 10 cm span. Enter those two numbers here.
Because a knitted stitch is wider than it is tall. A design charted on squares comes out squashed vertically when knitted — a circle turns into an oval.
Yes. Crochet stitches have their own proportions — often taller than knit stitches — so measure a swatch and enter those numbers instead.
