Do you yearn to knit lovely intarsia sweaters? Do you find all the yarn tails intimidating and frustrating? This tool won't weave all your ends in or untangle your bobbins, but it will help with the planning.
Strand map
Each outlined shape needs a strand of yarn
Yarn carried behind the work
Duplicate stitch later
Marked to carry yarn behind
Corner flag: you can choose the colour of this stitch (click it)
Yarn journeys: each strand's path stitch by stitch, row by row (gonna make this knitting grow)
Row numbers sit on the side the row starts from. Click a stitch to follow its strand.
How it counts
- Strand means one length of yarn. Each row is split into runs of the same colour, worked in knitting order.
- Carrying is off unless you switch it on. When it's on, a colour that comes back in the same row is stranded behind the stitches in between and stays the same strand, if the gap is within your automatic limit or every stitch in it is marked to carry behind.
- Following up the rows: a strand continues into the next row when that colour's run there sits on or beside the run below (or within the automatic carry gap, when carrying is on). Where an area splits, the side nearest the hanging yarn keeps it and the other side gets a new strand. Where two areas join, one strand carries on and the other is cut.
- Rows per strand counts the rows that strand is knitted in. Colour areas are connected patches of one colour, with the rows they span.
- Squares at the very edges of shaped pieces can be marked "not a stitch" in the colour list so they aren't counted.