Your pattern, figured for your yarn.
Patterns say “increase 9 stitches evenly” and leave the arithmetic to you. Rowsmith works it out, writes the row the way a pattern would, and draws where every change goes. Then it converts your gauge, counts your yarn and keeps your place.
Rowsmith Pass for the Workbasket: $1.95 a month or $19.50 a year Free during previewEvery tool is free, and a Workbasket holds one project free.
The tools
Four tools on one worktable.
Each one shows its working, so you can check it against your pattern before you knit a stitch.
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Even Spacer
Increase or decrease evenly across a row or a round, knitting or crochet, with M1, kfb, k2tog, or two-in-one and two-together in US or UK crochet terms.
Row: K6, [M1, K5] 4 times.
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Gauge Converter
Your swatch came out at 18 stitches where the pattern wants 20? Every stitch and row count from the pattern, worked out at your gauge, kept to the stitch repeat.
Cast on 120 at 20 sts / 4 in → 108 at 18 sts / 4 in (106 or 110 to keep a 4 + 2 repeat)
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Yarn Amount
Swap in a different yarn and know how many skeins to buy, or weigh what is left on the ball and know whether it will finish the piece.
5 skeins × 220 yd, in a 180 yd yarn with 10% extra → buy 7 skeins
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Needle and hook sizes
Millimeters to US sizes for needles and hooks, and the yarn weight categories 0 to 7 in the Craft Yarn Council’s table (read October 18, 2026).
4.5 mm needle = US 7 · 5 mm hook = H-8 · 18 sts / 4 in = category 4, Medium
Look up a size
How the spacing works
Division, with the remainder put somewhere sensible.
Worked flat, 4 increases split a row into 5 runs: one before the first increase and one after the last. 26 stitches over 5 runs is 5 each with 1 left over, so 1 run gets one stitch more.
Row 6 of 8 in the cable, repeat 2
Workbasket
Keep your place, on any device.
A Workbasket is a private page for your projects. No account and no email: its long, random address is the key.
- Row counters with a repeat length: “row 6 of 8, repeat 2”
- Notes, needle or hook, yarn and pattern for each project
- A swatch log, so you know which gauge came from which needle
- A printable project sheet and a CSV of the whole basket
Rowsmith Pass $1.95 a month or $19.50 a year Free during preview
Pricing
The tools are free. The Pass is for your basket.
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Every tool, as often as you like, and a Workbasket with one project.
- Even Spacer, Gauge Converter, Yarn Amount, sizes
- 1 project, 3 counters, 2 swatches
Rowsmith Pass
$1.95 a month
or $19.50 a year for one Workbasket.
- 30 projects, 8 counters each, 12 swatches each
- Printable project sheets and CSV export
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