Free crochet chart designer

Draw your own stitch chart.

Sketch a graphgan, tapestry crochet, filet, cross-stitch, or knit colorwork chart cell by cell — painting with real yarn colors, not abstract swatches. As you draw you get written row-by-row instructions, a materials list with buy links, and a row tracker, all free in the browser with no account.

Illustration of a hand drawing a heart motif on a stitch chart grid with a pencil
Illustration of hands drawing a heart stitch chart on a tablet with a stylus, yarn and hook beside it

The Draw-to-Stitch method · a StitchingLab original

Sketch it on your iPad. Stitch it tonight.

The canvas is built for touch and stylus — draw with an Apple Pencil on an iPad (or a finger on any phone or tablet) exactly like a sketchbook, cell by cell. The difference from a drawing app: as you draw, StitchingLab is already writing the pattern. Written row-by-row instructions, per-color yardage, bobbin counts, and the row tracker assemble live under your canvas — so the moment the sketch feels right, it is already a pattern you can print, save, or start stitching. Nobody else closes that loop from pencil stroke to stitch count in one screen.

  1. Draw — Apple Pencil, finger, or mouse; pencil, fill, and eyedropper tools with real yarn colors.
  2. Watch it become a pattern — instructions and materials regenerate with every stroke.
  3. Stitch — follow the row tracker, or print the numbered chart for your magnet board.

Step 1 · Stitch type

Step 2 · Canvas size

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Stitches wide × rows tall, 10–150 each. 60 × 80 is a classic portrait graphgan.