Knitting alphabet charts

Using these knitting charts letters

Each character shows its stitch and row count in every font and the finished size at a typical 20 × 28 gauge. For names, use the knitting name chart generator and it will write out every row.

Short floats are the secret to neat lettering: a single Basic or Tiny letter is at most five stitches wide, so no float inside a letter is longer than that.

Tips before you start

Knitted stitches are wider than they are tall, so the charts here use gauge-correct cells — what you see is how the letter will look in stockinette. Letters work best in stranded colourwork when strokes are no more than five stitches apart, so floats stay short.

For a name on a hat brim or a stocking cuff, chart the whole word with the text tool and centre it on your stitch count. Duplicate stitch is a good alternative for single letters added after knitting.

Working in another craft? The same alphabet is charted for cross stitch, fuse beads, alpha bracelets, C2C crochet, diamond painting, needlepoint, latch hook, brick mosaic, peyote & brick stitch, pony beads and pixel art.