You bring the photo. Bobble does the rest: the yarn colours, the chart in C2C, rows or tapestry, and Make Mode to take you through it row by row.
Your photo, your chart, at your size. Bobble does the rest: the yarn colours, the chart in C2C, rows or tapestry, and Make Mode to take you through it row by row.
Free · no card needed · charts are made on your device
A crochet chart is a grid of squares and a great deal of counting.
One stretch at a time: which colour, how many, which way.
Press Next after each stretch. Bobble keeps the count and estimates the time left.
Stop mid-row and pick up there next week, on any device you sign in to.
Turn your photo or a ready-made template into a crochet chart with yarn colours, then make it row by row in Make Mode.
Start Make Mode. Bobble guides each row, tracks progress and remembers exactly where you left off.
Confirm the physical object is complete, add a finished photo and keep a record of what you made.
Share the finished project, inspire another maker and choose what you want to make next.
Add a photo, choose the finished size and the number of colours, then pick C2C, rows or tapestry. From that one photo Bobble gives you:
A C2C chart counts blocks, not stitches. In UK terms each block is a chain of 3 and 3 trebles (3 double crochet in US terms). Bobble writes out each diagonal row and marks the longest one, after which you decrease at both ends. In DK on a 4 mm hook, four blocks make about 10 cm. What is a C2C graphghan?
Photos with a clear subject and few colours chart best: a pet, a silhouette, a logo. Busy scenes do not. How to turn a photo or picture into a crochet pattern.
Crocheters call the same plan a chart, a graph or a grid: a picture drawn in squares, one colour to a square. A blanket worked from one is a graphghan (some write graphgan). In Bobble each square is one stitch when you work in rows or tapestry, which many call pixel crochet, and one block in C2C. Bobble makes colour charts like these, not stitch-symbol diagrams, and it does not chart filet or mosaic crochet.
Pick corner-to-corner, rows or tapestry, and Bobble redraws the chart and rewrites the instructions to match, in UK or US terms. Rows is pixel crochet: one stitch for each square, worked row by row. Tapestry carries the colours you are not using inside the stitches, and Bobble warns you when a row uses more than four. How the tapestry crochet pattern maker works.
Bobble finds the best palette for your image, names the nearest Stylecraft Special DK or Paintbox Simply DK shade for each colour, and works out how many balls of each you need. Tap any swatch to tweak it.
Start making, then return whenever you are ready. Make Mode keeps your place, guides each row and remembers your progress until the last stitch.
Share a link or pin your chart to Pinterest for free. With Pro, print a PDF pattern, save the chart as a PNG or copy the written rows.
Don’t have a photo in mind? Start with a heart, rainbow, star, sunflower, cat, mountain sunset and more. Fourteen free to try, twenty-six more with Pro.
Sign in with Google and your projects follow you to any device, phone, tablet or desktop. Works offline too, once loaded.
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Upload any photo to Bobble, choose how many yarn colours you want, and the tool builds a colour-coded crochet chart that you make row by row in Make Mode. You can fine-tune each colour to match yarn you already own. With Pro you also get the written instructions, and can print the pattern as a PDF or save the chart as a PNG.
Yes. Bobble has a free plan that lets you keep 3 projects in progress (finished ones don’t count), synced across your devices, use 14 free templates and make any chart row by row in Make Mode. Bobble Pro (£3.99/month) adds the written instructions, every download (PDF, PNG and printing), up to 50 projects in progress, the full template library and style filters.
No. You can make a chart and follow it in Make Mode without an account; Bobble keeps your projects in that browser. Sign in with Google, free, to keep them in sync across your phone, tablet and computer, to make a share link or to publish to the Gallery.
Yes. Choose corner-to-corner (C2C), rows (double crochet in UK terms, single crochet in US terms) or tapestry, and Bobble adjusts the chart and the written instructions to the method. Tapestry is charted as flat rows, with the colours you are not using carried inside the stitches and counted in the yarn amounts; four or fewer colours in a row works best.
Yes. Choose Rows and each square of the chart is one stitch, a double crochet in UK terms or a single crochet in US terms, which is what most people mean by pixel crochet. Choose C2C and each square is a block instead.
From 10 to 300 stitches, or C2C blocks, each way, with 2 to 20 colours; 8 is the default. Pick a size (a 40 × 40 cm cushion, a 75 × 100 cm baby blanket, a 120 × 150 cm throw or a 50 × 70 cm wall hanging) or type your own in cm or inches. Bobble crops the photo to that shape, never stretches it, and sets the stitches and rows from your tension.
Not yet. Start from a photo or one of Bobble’s designs, then recolour, merge colours and resize in the Maker. There is no blank grid to paint square by square.
Any flat piece you can chart: a blanket or throw, a cushion cover, a wall hanging, or a panel to sew into something bigger. It also makes a bauble cover worked in rounds. It does not shape garments, and tapestry is charted as flat rows.
No. Bobble is not in the App Store; it runs entirely in your web browser on a phone, tablet or desktop, and there is nothing to install. You can add it to your home screen and use it offline once loaded.
Two brands: Bobble names the nearest Stylecraft Special DK or Paintbox Simply DK shade for every colour, whichever of the two you choose. Both are UK brands, and there is no US brand yet. For any other yarn, match by eye from the chart’s colours: tap any swatch in the palette to pick exact hex values, sample from your photo, or nudge each colour toward the yarn in your stash.
Yes. Enter your tension, the stitches and rows per 10 cm from a swatch, and Bobble shows the real finished size in centimetres and inches. It also lists every colour with the metres and number of balls to buy, including a 10% allowance for tension and the tails you weave in.
Pick a template, upload a photo, see what you can make. Free, no card needed.
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