Toddler + Child Growth-Window Planner
Check one stitch count against the head now and a future reference size, then add adjustable depth with the fold.
Usable now-and-later planThe relaxed opening is not larger than the current head, and both checkpoints stay below the swatch’s comfortable stretch ceiling.
Selected body count64 stitches18.29 in relaxed
Effective ease now1.2%small amount of hold now
Effective ease later3.8%at 19.00 in future reference
Make a relaxed 64-stitch body, work to 8.00 in unfolded, and fold 0.75 in for a current 7.25-in depth.
- Future reference circumference
- 19.00 in
- Swatch comfortable stretch
- 15.0%
- Compatible negative-ease ceiling
- 13.0%
- Raw stitch count
- 64.51 stitches
- Nearby usable counts
- 64 / 68 (nearest 64)
- Relaxed flat-width check
- 9.14 in
- Crown-diameter checkpoint
- 5.82 in
- Full unfolded depth
- 8.00 in
- Current folded depth
- 7.25 in
- Depth available to release
- 0.75 in
Planning note: the future allowance is a value you choose; it is not a prediction of a child’s growth. Re-measure the head and washed hat before relying on the later checkpoint.