Projects

A project is "I'm making this thing." It pulls a pattern, your yarn, and your progress into one place, plus photos as you go and the actual gauge you got (which can differ from the pattern's expected gauge).

Starting a project

Two paths:

From the Patterns tab: tap a pattern, then Track (the button at the top of the preview). The app silently creates a lightweight "Auto" project for you so you can start knitting right away. The project has the pattern attached, no yarn, no dates. You can fill those in later.
From the Projects tab: tap + New project for the full editor: name, status, craft, pattern, yarn, dates, photo, notes, size, equipment.

The first path is friction-free. If you never get around to filling in the rest, the "Auto" project still tracks your progress, your counters, your sticky notes, your drawings.

Auto projects

Projects auto-created from the Track button show an Auto badge. The moment you edit and save them in the project editor, the badge goes away (it's now a normal project). Use Auto projects for the "I just want to start knitting" case; promote them to full projects when you want to record yarn, dates, photos, etc.

Picking yarn

In the editor, tap + Add yarn to pick from your stash. Multiple yarns OK: held-double, contrast colour, all of it. Each picked yarn becomes a row on the project; you can record planned skeins and (later) actual consumption per row.

The detail screen

Opening a project shows you everything at a glance:

Photo / cover at the top.
Pattern + Track button to start reading.
Yarn rows with skein count + meterage + a speedometer button for weighing in.
Gauge row with a calculator icon (taps through to the calculator pre-filled with the gauge you recorded).
Dates: started, finished.
Notes (links auto-tap to open in browser).
Gallery of photos.

Weighing in yarn

The speedometer button on each yarn row opens a small sheet for grams (or meters) consumed. Save and the matching yarn in your stash decrements automatically (using whichever conversion is most accurate). Adjust it later, the stash recomputes from the latest weigh-in.

This is also how Purl tells you how much yarn a project actually used, after the fact, for your records.

Photos

Add photos via the gallery section: multi-pick from your library in one tap, or take a single photo with the camera. Each photo can have a caption; tap a photo for full-screen + pinch-to-zoom + double-tap-to-zoom + swipe-between.

The first photo in the gallery is the project's cover. Star a different photo in the full-screen viewer to promote it to cover.

Status

Three statuses:

Planned: you have an idea but haven't started.
Active: you're knitting it.
Finished: done.

The Projects tab groups by status (Active first). Statuses auto-bump in some cases: setting a Start date on a Planned project moves it to Active; setting an End date on Active moves it to Finished.

Actual gauge

Pattern says "22 sts × 30 rows over 10 cm." You knit a swatch and got "20 sts × 28 rows over 10 cm." Record the actual gauge in the project's Advanced section: sts × rows / over a span, with optional notes.

Tap the calculator icon next to the gauge row → the Calculator opens pre-filled with your gauge so you can resize a stitch count or compute even shaping without re-typing.

Multi-size projects

A project can use multiple needle sizes (cuff on 2.5 mm, body on 3 mm). Pick them as chips in the editor: the suggestions come from both equipment you own and sizes from past projects, so the list gets richer the more you knit.

Continue Reading

The top of the Projects tab shows a horizontal strip of the 3 most-recently-opened active patterns. One-tap shortcuts to get back to where you were knitting.

Timeline

More → Timeline shows your projects as a Gantt over months. Tap a bar to open the project. Pinch to zoom; the date axis stays pinned while you scroll. Useful for "what did I make last year" or planning a knit-along schedule.

Gallery

More → Gallery shows every photo across every project, every user pattern, every PDF cover, in one aggregated view. Pinch / double-tap / swipe to flip through.