Crafts & Sewing

Quantity calculators for sewing, quilting and knitting projects: fabric, binding and yarn.

Tools in this category

Fabric Yardage Calculator: How Much Fabric to Buy for Your Project: List your pieces and the fabric width. Get the yards or metres to buy, with seam allowance, shrinkage and a to-scale cutting layout across the bolt. Inches or millimetres. Runs in your browser.
Quilt Backing Calculator: Backing, Batting and Binding Yardage: Enter your quilt size and fabric width to get the backing yardage, the batting size and the binding yardage in one result. Inches and yards or centimetres and metres. Runs in your browser.
How Much Yarn Do I Need? Estimate Yardage and Skeins: Enter the finished size of a flat knit or crochet piece, the yarn weight and the length of one skein. Get the yardage, the number of skeins and a shopping list. Runs in your browser.
Crochet Blanket Size Calculator: How Many Chains and Rows: Pick a standard blanket size, enter your swatch gauge and get the foundation chain, number of rows and finished size, then open the Yarn Amount Calculator with the blanket already filled in.
Knitting Gauge Calculator: Adjust a Pattern to Your Gauge: Enter the pattern gauge and your swatch gauge, paste the stitch and row counts from the pattern and get new counts that give the same finished size. Links on to the Yarn Amount Calculator.
Cross Stitch Fabric Size Calculator: Finished Size and Fabric to Cut: Enter pattern stitches and fabric count to get the finished design size, the fabric to cut with margins, and the same pattern on other Aida and linen counts. Runs in your browser.

Home & DIY: Calculators for home improvement projects: how much material to buy for decks, fences, walls, floors, tiles, windows and garden walls.
Kitchen & Food: Cooking helpers: scale recipes, convert cups to grams and plan a week of meals.