What is StitchPress?

StitchPress is a visual pattern editor for fiber crafts. It brings three tools together in one place: draw crochet diagrams stitch by stitch, chart knitting patterns on a grid, and lay text and diagrams out into a finished, printable pattern. Everything runs in your web browser, and your work is saved to your account so it follows you from one device to the next.

This page introduces the three editors and explains where StitchPress runs and where your work lives. The rest of this section covers accounts, trying the editors without signing up, sharing your diagrams, your settings, and connecting an AI assistant.

The editors

Crochet editor

The crochet editor is a canvas where you build a crochet chart one stitch at a time. You pick a stitch from the rail down the left side, place it on the canvas, and connect it to the stitches around it — the diagram grows the way your work does, round by round or row by row. You can lay down guides for stitches to follow, adjust stitch sizes, color your stitches, add notes and arrows on a separate annotation layer, and turn the finished chart into written instructions.

The crochet editor with the toolbar across the top, the stitch rail on the left, a two-round diagram on the canvas, and the Inspector and Rounds panels on the right.

For the full walkthrough, see the Crochet editor manual.

Knit editor

The knit editor is for charting knitting on a squared grid, the way knit charts are traditionally drawn. Each cell is a stitch. You paint symbols onto the grid, insert and remove rows and columns, shape the outline of the chart cell by cell, and read the chart with numbered rows and columns down the sides.

The knit editor showing a numbered 10 by 10 knitting chart grid.

For more, see the Knit editor manual.

Pattern editor

The pattern editor is where a project becomes a shareable document. You lay out a page with text boxes — formatted with a familiar rich-text toolbar — photos, and the diagrams you made in the other editors, and export the whole thing to a PDF.

The pattern editor with a rich-text toolbar, a page with a heading, instructions, and a crochet diagram, and an Export PDF button.

For more, see the Pattern editor manual.

Where things run

StitchPress runs entirely in your web browser at editor.stitchpress.kinnet.studio. There is nothing to download and nothing to install — open the site and start working. Because the editors draw on a canvas, StitchPress works best in an up-to-date desktop browser.

Where your work is stored

When you are signed in, your diagrams and patterns are saved to your account and synced automatically. You do not need to press a “save to the cloud” button — StitchPress keeps your work up to date as you go, and a save indicator shows the current status. Sign in on another device and your projects are waiting for you. If you lose your connection, crochet and knit diagrams keep saving on your device and sync again once you are back online.

Signed-in work lives in Your workspace, the home screen you land on after signing in. From here you create new projects with the New button and filter your work by Crochet, Knit, and Patterns.

Your workspace home screen with a New button and the All, Crochet, Knit, and Patterns filters.

Getting around

The menu button (☰) in the top-left corner of every page takes you to Home (Your workspace), your Knit and Crochet galleries, this Help site, What’s new, and Send feedback.

What’s new shows the latest improvements to StitchPress. A dot on the menu button means there is something new you have not seen yet.
Send feedback opens a short form for reporting a problem or sharing an idea with the StitchPress team.

Your account picture in the top-right corner opens your account options and Settings.

Want to try the editors before making an account? See Trying StitchPress without an account.