Tips
5 Ways to Stay on Track With Your Knitting Projects
Most unfinished projects are not abandoned because the pattern was too hard. They stall because picking them back up costs more effort than starting something new.
Blog
Tips, patterns, and updates for knitters using RowTally.
Tutorial
How to Count Rounds in Amigurumi Without Losing the Spiral
A spiral has no seam. That single fact is why amigurumi rounds get lost more often than rows in any other kind of crochet.
Tutorial
How to Use Stitch Counters for Pattern Repeats
The row count is the easy part. Here is how to track everything else a pattern asks you to count, without doing arithmetic in your head.
Tutorial
How to Read a Crochet Pattern
A crochet pattern is a compressed set of instructions. Once you can expand it, most patterns stop being intimidating — starting with the one detail that trips up beginners hardest.
Tutorial
How to Set Up Your First Project in RowTally
Only one field is required. Here is what the others are for, and the thirty-second test worth running before you trust any counter app with a real project.
Tips
Why Your Gauge Swatch Lies (and How to Make It Honest)
Everyone knows they should swatch. Fewer people know that a badly made swatch is worse than none, because it produces false confidence.
Tips
How to Knit Faster Without Losing Your Count
Most people do not knit slowly. They knit in bursts of forty seconds separated by looking for their place.
Tips
Stitch Markers: The Cheapest Insurance in Knitting
A counter records what you remembered to record. A marker in the fabric records what actually happened.
Behind the app
Why RowTally Works Offline and Stores Nothing
Three decisions shaped RowTally more than any feature did. Each one has a cost, and it seems fair to name them.
Tips
How to Keep Count in Colourwork and Stripes
Stripes are the one case where the fabric counts itself — if you know which number to read.
Tutorial
What the Session Timer Tells You About Your Knitting
"About two weeks" is not an estimate. Once you know your actual rows per hour, it becomes one.
Tips
When to Frog: How to Decide Whether to Rip Back
The hours you already spent are gone whatever you decide next. That is the whole argument, and it is worth internalising.