Printable Knitting Chart Paper (Free PDF)
Graph paper with cells in the real stitch-to-row proportion, so a charted motif comes out the shape you drew.
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A knitted stitch is wider than it is tall, so a design charted on square graph paper comes out squashed on the needles. This sheet uses rectangular cells in the proportion of your gauge instead: 4 stitches to 5 rows per inch for worsted stockinette, 5 to 7 for DK, or 7 to 9 for fingering and sock weight. Draw a circle that looks round on the chart and it knits up round.
Each cell is set from the real inch, so the chart is also a size guide: at 4 and 5 the page holds 30 stitches by 49 rows on US Letter, at 5 and 7 it holds 37 by 68, and at 7 and 9 it holds 52 by 88. Every tenth line is heavier in both directions, which is how knitting charts are usually read — count blocks of ten stitches across and ten rows up rather than single cells.
Use it for colourwork and fair isle motifs, intarsia pictures, cable and lace symbol charts, or for sketching a yoke before you commit the yarn. The grid is centred on the page with equal margins and runs nearly to the edges, so you get the whole sheet to work on. It is a plain vector page with nothing to fill in on screen: print it, chart in pencil or coloured pencil, and keep the sheet with your pattern notes.
