Lurewit

Lurewit is a bench for stranded colourwork mittens: you paint the chart 📊, and it tells you how the pair will knit before a single stitch goes on the needles.

1. Answer three questions (hand size, two to four shades, a motif family) and Lurewit knits you a first design to start 🚀 from, or open one of ten sample pairs such as Selbu Rose Night and Lantern Zigzag.
2. Paint the flattened mitten cell by cell on the back, palm and thumb gusset, or stamp whole bands from fourteen motifs: stars, chevrons, peeries, lice, pines, hearts, even a reindeer. Mirror the back to the palm, fill a round, undo a slip.
3. Watch 👀 the float report 🧾 change as you paint. Every round shows its longest float and where to catch it, which shade to hold dominant, and where the round-start 🚀 jog will show. Seven common faults, from puckered floats to thumb-gap holes, point at the exact rounds they affect.
4. Fit the mitten to a real hand. Lay your own swatch beside a ruler and photograph it or pick a photo 📸 from your library 📚, pin 10 cm on the ruler, tap 👆 the stitches and rows, and Lurewit refits the stitch count and the motif repeat to your gauge. Typed counts work too.
5. Choose the yarn. Eight wools, from Shetland jumper-weight to rustic tweed, give metres per 50 g, so each shade shows the metres and balls the pair needs, and a kit list 📋 tracks the needles and notions you already own.
6. Read the leaflet: sizes S to L, yarn per shade and numbered round-by-round instructions for the cuff, hand, thumb gusset and top decreases.

Centimetres or inches, a float limit of five or seven stitches. Lurewit works fully offline 📴 and keeps every design on your device 📱.