Press and hold the picture to save it to your phone.
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thread·wyn (n.) — thread, and wyn, the old word for joy: the quiet pleasure of a pattern coming out even.
Work a chart square by square. Fasten off when it's done, and it goes in the cabinet for good.
How many stitches across, and how many rows down. Bigger charts hold more detail — pinch to zoom in and every square is still yours.
Prompts, not rules. Pick one and it rides along with the chart; fasten off and the pattern gets a tick.
Press and hold the picture to save it to your phone.
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Hold the phone over your piece and drag the four corner dots onto its corners. Freeze the picture to look closely; Find differences rings any stitch that doesn't match the chart.
The blank squares are the ones still to work.
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Work a 10 cm square, count what you actually get, and put it in here. Everything below is then true to your hands.
Lay finished squares out in rows and see the whole thing before you sew a single one together.
Tap anywhere on this panel when that run is done.
Words whispered over a chart. Type one in and something opens up — a dyed skein, a wider loom, a better mirror. The riddle is the clue.
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Any colour there is. Drag the square, then the strip.
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Load one, then tap the chart to press it in — in whatever yarn is loaded.
Motifs LettersEverything in the game, in the language you'd rather read.
Everything that's been added, newest first.
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Think you know it? Say it in Charm Codes.
Useful when you are trying to work out whether a phone has the newest one.
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The picture gets boiled down to whole stitches at this chart's gauge. Put it on the guide and work over it, or stitch it straight in.
The picture shrinks to fit inside the box, keeping its shape. It is never enlarged.
A picture of graph paper? Read it as graph paper, so the squares are counted and not blended.
Photograph a finished crochet picture, as flat as you can. If it was taken at an angle, pin its four corners and it is straightened first. Threadwyn counts the stitches, reads the colour of each one and makes a chart you can edit.
Drag the four corner dots onto the corners of the piece, or drag a fresh box round it. The lines show the stitches it counted; when they sit on the stitches, you are done.
Pale squares count as blank, and the paper's ruled lines are ignored, so a drawing reads as it was drawn.
Real crochet is lumpier than a chart, so take the count as a very good first guess and nudge it until the lines sit on the stitches.
Say how much of each yarn is really in the basket at home. The shopping list then asks only for what you are short of, and says nothing about the rest.
Say how wide you want this piece, and see which yarn weight gets you there, with the hook that usually goes with it and the yarn you would need.
With more than one colour carried along the back, most makers go down a hook size to keep the fabric firm, so aim for the lower end of the hook range.
Hold your piece beside the phone and tell me whether each row matches the picture. I will find the first row that drifted in a handful of answers, instead of you counting back through all of them.
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The kind that ties on to a handmade gift: the piece, who it is for, how big it really is, what it is made of, and how to look after it.
What is the yarn?What the chart will ask of your hands: how often the colour changes, how many yarn ends you will have to weave in, and the stray stitches that cost you a change for almost nothing.
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The same picture in a different set of yarns. Every colour moves to the one nearest it in tone, so the light and the dark stay where you put them. Undo takes it straight back.
Three by three, edge to edge — the quickest way to see whether a border actually joins up.
Anything you've fastened off can go in this space.
Work one half; the other half works itself. Move the crease to wherever the symmetry actually sits.
Move the whole chart at once, or change how many stitches it holds.
Turn itThe work stays in the middle. Going smaller crops what falls outside, and that can't be undone.
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All of this stays on this phone.
Phones delete site data when they run short of room. Protecting it tells the browser this one is worth keeping.
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A ghost under the chart to work over. It never becomes stitches and never shows in the cabinet.
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