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Crochet Yarn Calculator
Estimate how much yarn each color needs from a chart's stitch count and color share. Looking for a yarn calculator crochet projects can actually trust? Measure your own swatch so the result reflects your yarn, hook, stitch, tension, and carrying method instead of a generic yarn table. It suits any colorwork chart, including tapestry crochet.
Still planning the chart? Build it on the crochet tapestry grid pattern maker, then bring its stitch total here.
- Uses your measured metres per stitch—not a generic yarn table
- Splits the exact stitch total across three color shares
- Shows the base amount and safety buffer separately
Estimated yarn
Use a real swatch rate for the yarn, hook, stitch, and tension planned for this project.
Measure once
Find metres per stitch from a real swatch
- Work a representative tapestry swatch with the planned yarn and hook.
- Record the yarn length used, excluding the starting amount you did not crochet.
- Count the stitches in the swatch and divide metres used by that stitch count.
This is a planning estimate, not a dye-lot guarantee. Technique, floats, tails, joins, tension, and mistakes change real consumption; keep the buffer and round purchasing decisions up to complete skeins.