Visit www.holdmyplacetracker.com to use the new site. Before this old website closes, please export any projects you want to keep from this website and then import them into the new HoldMyPlace.
yourprojectname.json will be downloaded. That is the file you need to import into the new website.
You bought a beautiful tapestry crochet pattern, or found one on Pinterest - maybe a graphghan, maybe a colourwork chart from your favourite designer. It didn’t come with tidy row-by-row instructions. It’s just a picture - a grid of coloured squares you have to read, one stitch at a time.
You put your hook down for a snack. You come back and… which row were you on? Which square? Was that navy or black? Sticky notes fall off. Highlighter tape doesn’t work on a printout you keep re-printing. A row counter only knows which row you’re on - not which of the sixty stitches in it.
And then there’s the colour counting. Twenty stitches of one colour, then forty of the next, then back again - keeping count in your head, or losing track halfway through and starting over. That’s not crochet, that’s arithmetic.
So you re-count. Again. And it’s the re-counting, not the crochet, that makes you put the project down for good.
The chart or photo pattern you already have — bought, found on Pinterest, or your own printout.
Detection is mostly automatic — but not perfect. If a line or two needs a nudge, adjusting it takes seconds.
Your current row lights up directly on the image, with everything already worked dimmed — or fully blacked out, your choice.
No more counting “twenty of this, forty of that” in your head — each colour block is highlighted together, so you always know how much is left.
Click or use the arrow keys to move through rows and colour groups as you crochet.
Choose C2C when you create a project and follow your chart in the diagonal order you actually crochet it — without mentally converting a row-by-row grid.
HoldMyPlace calculates your working pace as you crochet and adds smart safeguards around row changes, helping prevent an accidental tap from moving you to the wrong row before you’re ready.
Found a pattern made for cross stitch or beading? Fix broken connections, correct individual squares, or see how your pattern looks with a different colour palette.
Turn a picture-only chart into row-by-row written instructions, generated straight from your image.
HoldMyPlace started because I needed this tool myself. If something feels confusing, isn’t working the way you expect, or there’s a feature that would make crocheting easier, send it straight to me.