Increase or Decrease Evenly Calculator

Tell it how many stitches you have and how many to add or take away: it writes the row or round, with increases or decreases spread evenly.

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Fill in the stitches you have and how many to add or take away.

Rows or rounds?

In a round the increases go at the end of equal groups, so the shape grows evenly all the way round: a flat circle in single crochet is 6 increases every round.

In a row the calculator puts half a group at each end, so both edges match and no increase sits on the very first or last stitch.

When the numbers don’t divide evenly

Some groups get one stitch more than others. The calculator mixes the longer and shorter groups through the row, so you won’t see a bulge on one side.