Crochet symbol chart workbench
Getting the tools ready…
Everything runs in your browser — the photo and the chart never leave it. Yarn colour data: Temperature Blanket · CC BY 4.0
A workbench for drawing crochet symbol charts one symbol at a time. Twenty-nine standard symbols are available, from chain, single and double crochet through to shells and popcorns, and a finished chart saves as a PNG or prints directly.
Not locked to a grid
Symbols are placed where you want them and can be rotated, rather than dropped into fixed cells. Crochet charts often radiate outwards as round motifs, and forcing those into squares makes some patterns impossible to draw. Turn on the concentric guides to keep track of rounds.
Standard symbols
These are the same shapes pattern books use, so a chart you draw needs no key of its own to be understood. Each symbol carries its name if you need to check what it is.
Your chart stays here
Drawing and saving both happen inside the browser. Download a file or copy a link to carry on somewhere else; either way the chart never leaves this machine.
Snap to the grid or float free
With snapping on, symbols land squarely in cells, which suits row patterns drawn in straight lines. For a round motif, turn it off and switch on the concentric guides — set the number of rounds and that many rings are drawn, and symbols are rotated onto them. The canvas goes up to 120×120 cells and the cell size is adjustable.
A printed chart comes with its key
When you print, the symbols actually used are listed under the chart with their names, the way pattern books add a key. Anyone handed the chart can tell what to work. Symbols can be found by name or abbreviation — typing dc or chain brings them up.
The whole chart fits in a link
There is no server, so copying a link puts the entire chart after the # in the address. Saved as a file it is readable JSON that opens again later, and while you draw it is saved automatically in this browser.
Common questions
Will I lose what I have drawn?
It is kept in this browser. Clearing browser data or using a private window loses it, so download a file for anything you want to keep.
The print comes out faint.
Printing redraws the chart rather than photographing the screen, so lines stay crisp at any size. If it still looks faint, check whether your printer is set to draft mode.
I want to turn a photo into a chart.
That is a different tool — the knitting pattern converter takes a photo and works out stitch counts and colours. This page is for placing symbols by hand.
Are there knitting symbols too?
No, crochet only. The two use entirely different symbol systems, and mixing them on one page causes more confusion than it saves.
Can I add text?
Yes — notes such as 'repeat 4 times' placed beside symbols. Like symbols they can be rotated and resized.
Are there example charts?
Three — a row pattern, a round motif and a shell lace. Open one, see how it is laid out, and adapt it.