The planning toolkit
Less guesswork.
More time to make.
Choose the decision you need help with. Every tool includes a worked example and explains its assumptions.
Yarn shopping planner
Calculate whole balls or packs for every colour. Subtract your stash and add UK delivery.
Build my list ↗02 / AI readerPaste a pattern, get the yarn list
Paste a pattern’s materials section: AI reads the yarns and colours, our calculators make the shopping list.
Read my pattern ↗02 / BudgetCompare complete orders
Compare two shop offers for the same yarns, including pack rounding and postage.
Compare two offers ↗03 / StashUse your leftover yarn
Estimate remaining metres from the yarn’s weight and label, then bring them into your list.
Convert my leftovers ↗04 / DiscoverExplore colour quantities
See how colour count changes whole-ball purchases, with a chart and downloadable examples.
Explore the numbers ↗05 / Measured projectsPlan a square blanket
Estimate a square blanket from your own weighed samples, grid size and finishing allowance.
Plan my square grid ↗06 / SeasonalPlan a 2027 temperature blanket
Pick your UK town: ten years of real daily highs become colour bands, balls per colour and a printable tracker.
Plan my temperature blanket ↗11 / DesignDesign a granny square blanket
Lay out the grid, colour each round in Stylecraft Special DK shades and get balls per colour.
Design my blanket ↗13 / C2CTurn a picture into a C2C graph
A picture becomes a corner-to-corner graph in Stylecraft shades, with tiles and balls per colour.
Make my graph ↗12 / SellingPrice your crochet to sell
Yarn, hours, overheads and Etsy or fair fees become a price, with what any price pays you per hour.
Price my make ↗14 / SubstitutionSwap the yarn in a pattern
Turn the pattern’s balls, grams or yards into whole balls of your yarn, with a thickness check.
Swap my yarn ↗15 / SeasonalPlan a 2027 moon phase blanket
Every day of 2027 coloured by the moon’s phase in UK time, with yarn per colour and a tracker.
Plan my moon blanket ↗07 / PatternsUS to UK terms converter
Paste a US pattern and read it in UK terms, or the other way round, with every change highlighted.
Convert a pattern ↗08 / HooksFind the right hook
The hook UK ball bands recommend for your yarn weight or yarn, in mm, US letters and old UK numbers.
Find my hook ↗09 / ChainsFoundation chain calculator
How many stitches to start a blanket of a given width, rounded to your pattern’s stitch multiple.
Count my chains ↗10 / ShapingEven increases and decreases
Spread increases or decreases evenly across a round and get the instruction written in UK terms.
Write my round ↗