KnitLab
It began with a single conviction: a knitting pattern deserves the same precision as a well-cut dress. KnitLab is my answer — a place where technical precision meets creative freedom, and the finished chart looks as beautiful as the work itself. I am making it for people who see knitting not only as a hobby, but as a craft.
Practical guides for knitwear designers — from the first swatch to a pattern ready to sell. Each guide explains the method step by step, with worked examples, and shows how to do the same in KnitLab Studio.
How to design a sweater in your own size
Gauge, measurements, ease and a little arithmetic: how centimetres become stitches and rows, and why the swatch decides everything.
Read the guide →Japanese knitting charts: how to read the symbols
Why Japanese patterns are drawn instead of written, how to read a chart row by row and what to do when a symbol is missing.
Read the guide →From chart to PDF: how to prepare a knitting pattern to sell
What a good knitting pattern contains, how to test it and how to lay it out so that it looks as finished as the garment.
Read the guide →How to design a top-down raglan sweater
Dividing the neckline, planning the raglan increases, matching the yoke depth to the armhole and separating the sleeves — step by step.
Read the guide →Colourwork knitting charts: jacquard and intarsia
Two ways to knit with colour, how to keep the floats tidy, how to choose colours that read well and how to chart a colour motif.
Read the guide →How much yarn do I need for a sweater?
A reliable way to estimate yarn from a weighed swatch, a worked example for a classic sweater and how much to add as a reserve.
Read the guide →Knitting terms, explained simply.
The words that come up in every pattern and every guide — in English and in Polish.
- PróbkaGauge
- The number of stitches and rows in 10 cm of your knitted fabric. Every calculation of a garment starts from it.
- LuzEase
- The difference between the body measurement and the garment measurement. It decides whether a sweater is fitted or oversized.
- SchematChart
- A grid in which every square is one stitch and every line of squares is one row, read from the bottom up.
- RaportRepeat
- The part of a chart that is worked again and again across the row and up the piece.
- NarzutYarn over
- A loop of yarn placed over the needle. It adds a stitch and makes a hole — the basis of lace.
- UjmowanieDecrease
- Working two or more stitches together to reduce the stitch count; it can lean to the left or to the right.
- WarkoczCable
- Stitches that change places by crossing over each other, worked with the help of a cable needle.
- ReglanRaglan
- A construction in which the sleeves reach the neckline along four diagonal lines instead of a shoulder seam.
- Rzędy skróconeShort rows
- Rows that are turned before the end, used to add height in one place — for example at the back of the neck.
- ŻakardJacquard
- Colourwork with two or more colours in one row; the unused colour is carried across the back as a float.
- IntarsjaIntarsia
- Colourwork with separate yarns for separate areas of colour, twisted together at every colour change.
- Partia barwieniaDye lot
- The batch in which a yarn was dyed. Skeins from different lots can differ slightly in colour.