Crochet project tracker
Most crocheters have more than one project on the go. Yarnova gives each one its own steps, counters and progress, so coming back to a half-finished piece does not mean working out where you were.
Works in progress rarely stall because a pattern was too hard. They stall because picking one back up has a cost. You have to find the pattern, work out which row you were on, remember which hook you used, and reconstruct what you were part-way through. That is ten minutes of admin before a single stitch, and it is enough to make choosing a new project feel easier.
Tracking a project is really about lowering that restart cost until it disappears.
Why parts work better than one long list
A pattern for anything three-dimensional is not a single sequence. A pair of booties is a sole, an upper and an assembly. An amigurumi animal is a head, a body, four limbs and a face. Written as one list of forty steps, it is hard to see where you are. Split into parts, the same forty steps become four short lists, and "I have finished the sole and I am three steps into the upper" is something you can hold in your head.
Yarnova structures projects this way. Each part carries its own steps and its own progress, and the project shows a percentage across all of them, so you can see genuine progress rather than just the row you are on.
The most useful thing to record
Not the row number, since the counter handles that. It is the hook you used. Gauge depends on it, a replacement project worked at a different tension will not match, and it is the single detail most likely to be forgotten between sessions.
Keeping several projects honestly
There is a persistent idea that having many works in progress is a discipline failure. In practice most people keep several on purpose, because they serve different situations: something simple for watching television, something absorbing for a quiet afternoon, something portable for a train. That is a sensible system, not a lapse.
What causes trouble is not the number of projects, it is when they become indistinguishable. Three bags of half-finished work with no note of what is what is genuinely discouraging. Three tracked projects with visible next steps is a menu.
Practical habits
- Finish a part before stopping, where you can. Stopping at a natural boundary is far easier to return to than stopping mid-row.
- Leave yourself a note when you stop mid-something. One line about what you were doing saves rediscovering it.
- Photograph each finished part. Assembly is where people get stuck on a repeat make months later.
- Keep the counter with the project, not on a clicker in a different bag. See the row counter guide.
Knowing how long things take
Yarnova can time your sessions on a project. That sounds like a productivity feature, and for most people it is not, because the pleasure of crochet is not in doing it quickly. It becomes genuinely useful in one situation: when someone asks you to make one for them.
Answering that question fairly needs a real number of hours, not a guess. If you have timed a similar make, you have one. The app's craft pricing tool uses exactly that to work out a sensible price rather than one that quietly pays you two pounds an hour.
Choosing what to start next
The other half of finishing more projects is starting better ones. Patterns in the library show a time estimate and a skill level, which makes it much easier to pick something that fits the evening you actually have rather than the one you imagine having. And checking your stash first means starting with yarn you already own.