Bust Darts Short-Row Calculator
Enter your gauge, the front stitch count & a few body measurements, then choose the garment type and knitting direction. The calculator returns the exact written short-row instructions, ready to drop into your pattern.
1. Which measuring system are you using?
2. What is your gauge?
3. Which garment are you making?
4. How many front stitches?
The whole front (half your total stitch count).
5. Body measurements
If you wear a bra, keep it on while taking this measurement. See the measuring guide below the calculator.
6. Which direction are you knitting?
Your bust darts
How to measure
Measure over the same layers you plan to wear the garment with.
If you wear a bra, keep it on while measuring.
Bust lines
Where the upper bust, full bust and under bust fall — for reference.
Apex distance
Straight across the front, from one bust point (nipple) to the other.
Shoulder to underbust — front
From the top of the shoulder, over the bust point, down to the underbust.
Shoulder to underbust — back
The same measurement taken down the back, from shoulder to underbust.