Free knitting colourwork charts

Knitted stitches are wider than they are tall, so these charts use rectangular cells that match a typical 20 × 28 gauge. Most designs are repeating bands — knit as many repeats as your stitch count needs. Each page states the longest float in the design, so you know in advance where to catch floats on the back.

The PDF includes the chart and every row written out, right-side rows right to left and wrong-side rows left to right.

The narrow peerie band is the gentlest introduction to two-colour knitting: short repeats, only two colours per round and floats that never need catching. The larger yoke-style bands use longer stretches of background and a few rounds with three colours; work those with the third colour added afterwards in duplicate stitch if you prefer to strand only two at a time.

Bands fit any project whose stitch count is a multiple of the repeat, so check the repeat on the pattern page against your hat, cuff or yoke before you cast on, and add or remove a stitch or two in the plain rounds below the band if needed.