Draw your stitch pattern once.
Get it back in 7 sizes, each with the right written instructions. Knitting and crochet. Without ever recounting a stitch.
Free for 3 patterns · €5/month after · no card to try
A chart is not a drawing
Other tools treat your pattern as a grid of coloured squares. That is where every bit of the pain comes from: instructions retyped by hand, grading redone seven times, the mistake found at the printer.
The count cannot lie
Every stitch knows what it consumes and what it produces. A yarn over creates one, a k2tog takes two. The count is computed, never typed — so it cannot be wrong.
Sizes are a calculation
Mark the cable as rigid: it stays 12 stitches in XS and in 3XL, and the background absorbs the difference. The 7 sizes are derived, not copied out.
The instructions write themselves
No “generate” button: the text and the grid are the same thing, seen two ways. They cannot drift apart. Edit the text and the chart follows.
Gauge, not the grid
A stitch is 4.5 mm wide and 3.3 mm tall. A motif drawn on a square grid comes out 27 % squashed on the needles. Here you see the real proportions from the start.
Your own symbols
Draw them, or import an SVG. Across one cell or twelve. They travel with the file and print sharp.
Six languages, one click
The pattern is not translated — it is rewritten from the model. In crochet, the UK/US “double crochet” trap disappears: the word is a rendering, never data.
What the others do, and what they don’t
An honest comparison. StitchMastery is a good tool, built by a knitter-engineer since 2011 — it already generates instructions and checks counts. Here is where we genuinely differ.
| Maille | StitchMastery | Stitch Fiddle | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-size grading | 7 derived sizes | no | no |
| Rigid / elastic zones | yes | no | no |
| Written instructions | yes | yes | no |
| Stitch-count checking | yes | yes | no |
| True gauge proportions | by default | no | no |
| Crochet | yes | no | yes |
| In the browser | yes | desktop app | yes |
| Live collaboration | yes | no | no |
| Open, documented format | yes | no | no |
| Price | €5/month | perpetual licence | free / paid |
The price of one pattern a month
You sell your patterns for €5–8. Maille costs one of them.
Pro
- Unlimited patterns
- All 7 sizes
- Vector PDF, no watermark
- Sharing and collaboration
- 6 languages
No card required. Cancel in one click.
If you stop paying, your patterns stay readable and exportable. Always. We do not hold your work hostage.