Tools
Small calculators and planners, built as they are needed and free to use. No sign-up, nothing saved.
Fireside
Made alongside the House Collection — size a blanket, fix your gauge, buy the right amount of yarn.
Calculator
Turn a finished size into a foundation chain and a row count, using your own swatch.
Measure as you go — natural yarn relaxes after blocking, so trust the tape over the row count.
Calculator
Your swatch came out tighter or looser than the pattern. This keeps the finished size right.
Round to your stitch repeat if the pattern needs a multiple.
Estimator
A working estimate before you buy, with a little extra for the border and weaving in.
Textured stitches eat more yarn. Buy one extra skein from the same dye lot.
Kitchen
Calculator
Flour, water and a 100% starter in — true hydration out.
Planner
Work backwards from the hour you want the loaf out of the oven.
Converter
Scale a batch up or down and keep the ratios honest.
Cooked sugar does not scale forever — above about 4×, split it into two pots.
Workroom
Calculator
Turn a cutting layout into yardage at common bolt widths.
Converter
Move a pattern between imperial and metric allowances.
5/8 in = 15.9 mm · 1/4 in = 6.4 mm · 1/2 in = 12.7 mm
Reference
Lightweight cotton: 70/10 with 50 wt. Quilting cotton and linen: 80/12. Denim and canvas: 100/16 with heavy-duty thread. Knits: ballpoint, always.
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