About Knotorious
We keep your place.
Knotorious is three things that belong together: free guides and tools for knitting and crochet, patterns written to actually be finished, and a counter app that remembers where you stopped so your brain does not have to. Count rows, keep going, and let the place-keeping be our job.
Why it exists
Because the help kept assuming the hard part was done.
Patterns that say "work as established" three rows after establishing anything. Instructions written in one country's terms and read in another's, where a single crochet is a double crochet if you cross an ocean, and nobody warns you. Counters that lose your place to a sync error, or hold your own project history hostage behind a paywall.
None of that is a talent problem. It is a tooling problem. So the guides here decode the label, the terms and the gauge maths in full, the patterns show their numbers, and the app keeps your place on your own phone, where a lost connection cannot touch it.
Three promises, kept in public
Free counting, forever
When the app ships, counting rows, tracking projects and logging your work are free without caps. The core tool is not a demo with a meter running.
Your projects live on your phone
No account, no server, no sync that can lose a blanket at row 300. Your work sits on your device, backed up on your device, exportable whenever you like.
Every guide ends in something to do
No page here is a dead end. Each one finishes with a tool to try, a pattern to start, or the next guide in the chain. Reading about knitting is not knitting.
Who makes it
People who frog, and admit it.
Knotorious is made by the Knotorious team: knitters and crocheters who have ripped back a sleeve at 1 a.m. and lived to count it. Every number on this site is tested before it is published, stitch counts, yardages, gauge maths, all of it worked out in real yarn first. And because our readers knit on both sides of the Atlantic, everything is written with US and UK terms side by side, never silently converted.