Bobble Guides
Plain-English tutorials on making crochet charts from photos, picking yarn colours, working corner-to-corner blankets, and reading the result without losing your place.
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How to turn a photo or picture into a crochet pattern
Choosing a picture that crochets well, sizing it from your tension, picking C2C, rows or tapestry, and following the rows.
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What is a C2C graphghan and how do you make one?
A plain-English intro to corner-to-corner blankets, what they are, why they’re fast, and how the stitch works.
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How to choose yarn colours from a photo
How many colours to use, how to match a real yarn brand, and why contrast matters more than accuracy.
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How to read a crochet chart
Where to start, which way the rows run, and how to keep your place between sittings.
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Free crochet chart maker: turn a photo into a grid
What a free crochet chart maker should give you, what Bobble gives you and what it does not, and a chart from your photo in about five minutes.
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Stylecraft Special DK colour matching for graphghans
Practical matches between common photo colours and Stylecraft Special DK shades, the UK’s default graphghan yarn.
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Crochet blanket sizes for the UK, in cm and inches
Sizes in cm and inches for UK cots, prams, throws and beds, with stitch and block counts for DK and aran tension.
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How many balls of yarn for a graphghan?
A repeatable method for estimating yarn quantities by stitch type, yarn weight and colour distribution.
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Pixel, C2C or tapestry crochet: which to pick
Side-by-side comparison of the three main techniques and what each one is actually good for.
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Tapestry crochet pattern maker: turn a photo into a chart
How Bobble charts tapestry crochet from a photo: flat rows, up to four colours in a row, the swatch note, carried yarn and the written rows.
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Crochet a portrait from a photo: skin tones, faces and other hard things
How to crochet a recognisable portrait, picking the right reference, simplifying faces and avoiding the common pitfalls.