Knitting and Crochet Pricing Calculator, Yarn Stash Tracker & Gauge Workbook | Pattern Costing for Makers Who Sell | Excel + Google Sheets

Knitting & crochet workbook for makers who sell their work — the calculators, references, logs, and pricing tools that run the business side of a yarn studio. A yarn quantity calculator (how many skeins to buy), a yarn-weight reference (lace to jumbo, with gauge and needle/hook sizes), a gauge & sizing calculator (your gauge → stitches to cast on), a project log, a yarn stash inventory with a low-stock flag, and project & per-piece cost & pricing calculators that finally count your hours. A working workbook (8 tabs, 4 live calculators) in BOTH Excel and native Google Sheets — one click, no importing — plus five print-ready PDF guides. You already know how to make the work. This is for the other half of a handmade business — knowing how much yarn a project needs, getting gauge so it fits, keeping your stash from becoming a mystery, and the one that changes everything: knowing what a finished piece really costs you, so you can price it for a profit instead of a loss. WHAT YOU GET: • A YARN QUANTITY CALCULATOR (Excel) — type a project's yardage and the yards per skein; it works out the skeins to buy (rounded up, with a safety skein for the dye lot). Plus a grams↔yards converter for substituting and for weighing leftovers. • A YARN WEIGHT REFERENCE — every weight from lace (0) to jumbo (7), each with its knit and crochet gauge, the usual needle and hook sizes, and a rough yards-per-100g, so you can choose and substitute with confidence. • A GAUGE & SIZING CALCULATOR (Excel) — enter your gauge and the size you want; it gives the stitches to cast on and the rows to work, with ease built in. It even checks a pattern's gauge against yours so you know the size you'll really get. • A YARN STASH INVENTORY (Excel) — track your yarn by weight, fibre, color & dye lot; it totals your yardage automatically and flags the staples when they run low, so you shop your stash first and never lose a dye lot. • A PROJECT & PER-PIECE COST & PRICING CALCULATOR (Excel) — yarn + notions + your honest hours + overhead → your TRUE cost per piece, then a price the market can bear. Built on the truth that the yarn is the cheap part — the hours are the cost. • A CARE, BLOCKING & FIXES REFERENCE — how to care for each fibre (wool, cotton, acrylic, silk, alpaca), the three blocking methods, and fixes for running short, gauge that's off, curling edges, color pooling, and pilling. • A START HERE GUIDE + PRINTABLE LOGS — yarn amounts, gauge, fibre care, costing, pricing, plus print-and-use project, gauge-swatch, and yarn-stash sheets for your chair. EXCEL OR GOOGLE SHEETS — BOTH ARE READY: There's a ready-made Google Sheets version as well as the .xlsx, already built and tested — you do NOT have to import anything. Open the link in your download, click "Make a copy", and a private copy lands in your own Google Drive with all eight tabs, all four calculators, every dropdown and the low-stock flag already working. Prefer Excel or LibreOffice? The .xlsx opens natively there. They are the same workbook. FORMATS: • A working workbook — eight tabs, four live calculators (the skeins, the cast-on, and the prices compute for you), as an .xlsx AND as a native Google Sheet. • Five print-ready PDF guides. • Printable log sheets for your knitting chair. WORKS FOR YOUR CRAFT: Knitters and crocheters selling sweaters, hats, baby items, blankets, socks, amigurumi, accessories, and more — anyone selling handmade yarn work who wants to buy the right amount, get gauge, organize a stash, and finally price for a profit. EVERGREEN — USE IT ANY YEAR: Yarn weights, gauge math, fibre care, and the pricing method are timeless, and the logs use a date column you fill in yourself. Nothing goes out of date. INSTANT DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. Nothing is shipped. The files are yours to use in your own making. — — — PLEASE NOTE • This is a digital product — no physical item will be mailed. • Created with AI assistance under Ardent Workshop's creative direction, then reviewed and edited before release. • This is a MAKER'S REFERENCE, not certification or financial advice. Gauge, yardage, needle sizes, and yarn weights are typical STARTING POINTS — always swatch and follow your yarn's ball band, because the real gauge and yardage depend on the exact yarn and the way you work it. The costing and pricing examples are illustrative, not financial or tax advice; run your own numbers and set your own prices. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any yarn manufacturer, pattern designer, or marketplace. • Personal license: for use in your own making. Please don't resell, share, or redistribute the files. © Ardent Workshop. Thank you for supporting a small maker.