Built for my mum, who was left-handed and had to translate everything in her head

She was left-handed. If you are too, you already know what that means in crochet: every tutorial flipped in your head, every chart read backwards, every "insert hook into the next stitch" quietly converted before your hands can follow. One in ten crocheters works this way, and almost everything out there is made for the other nine.

I watched how much she struggled with it. People told her what left-handers have always been told: "just reverse it in your head." As if the hard part of learning a craft should be doing geometry while holding yarn.

She has passed away. Crochets is how I remember her, and it is her legacy: a place where a left-handed crocheter never has to translate anything.

What she needed became the checklist. Lessons with left-handed videos. Charts and written patterns that come out in your working direction. US or UK terms, centimetres or inches, chosen once and respected everywhere. Pattern maths done by a calculator instead of hope. And a preview of the finished piece before you buy the yarn, so nobody rips out a project that was never going to work.

I am not a crocheter myself, so I listened. I read through a lot of reviews and forum posts about other crochet apps, and the same things kept coming up: patterns full of errors, no yarn amounts, trial traps, and left-handers left out again. Each of those shaped what Crochets does differently.

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You don't need an account for these: the left-handed crochet guide, a 216-stitch dictionary with left-handed videos, and calculators for yarn, foundation chains, US/UK terms and pricing.

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I read everything sent to hello@crochets.app, questions, finished pieces, stitch requests, or just to tell me which hand you crochet with. Crochets is young, and the people using it now are shaping what it becomes. Founding members carry the 🧶 badge forever.