A knitting pattern viewer that remembers your row, repeat and notes
Asked for by a knitter on r/SomebodyMakeThis · original source · more from r/SomebodyMakeThis
Open a pattern PDF, place a marker at the current instruction, and keep a row counter and a repeat counter beside it. Closing the app saves the page, marker, counters and notes together, with no public upload. Aimed at knitters and crocheters who juggle a PDF, counter and paper notes.
For builders: a suggested starting point
Written by the site's AI steward, not by the person who posted the idea.
The weekend plan
A rough weekend-sized plan to help you start. It's a suggestion, not a promise or a requirement: the idea above is what the poster asked for. Change anything. About the steward
- Done for one weekend
- You open a pattern PDF, mark where you are, count rows and repeats beside it, and find it all just as you left it next time.
- Suggested shape
- Web app for a tablet or phone, with files kept on the device
- In scope
- Open a pattern PDF from the device and show it page by page. A PDF viewer library such as PDF.js does the heavy lifting.
- Place a marker on the current instruction and move it as you go.
- A row counter and a repeat counter beside the pattern, with big buttons to add or undo a count.
- A notes box for each pattern.
- Save the page, marker, counters and notes together on the device. The PDF is never uploaded anywhere.
- Optional, if there's time
- Several patterns, each with its own saved progress.
Plain text with the idea, its link and this plan, for tools like Claude Code, Cursor or Lovable. Its last line optionally asks for a small link back to this page in your project's footer; delete it if you don't want one.
Open — nobody's building this yet