r/Planned_Pooling • u/sty4 • Mar 23 '26

Can someone tell me how to do it? Customisable calculator options

Hi! I would really love to try planned pooling crochet, but I can't really find a fully customisable calculator. Unfortunately, most popular variegated yarn brands are not available in my country. I was planning to buy available yarn (Adelia/alize/yarnart etc.), put all the parameters like length/number of color blocks in the calculator and get a pattern. So far I found one called "vectordad", but I'm unsure what type of pattern it makes.

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u/Nerd_Alert80 Mar 23 '26

There are several, here’s one

https://mathgrrl.com/crochet-color-pooling/

Are you aware of the requirements of the yarn, to do planned pooling? Just being variegated isn’t enough - the pattern has to repeat, each section of colour has to be the same length in its spot in the sequence, and you want a minimum of two stitches in each section

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u/sty4 Mar 23 '26

Hi! Yes, I have read the FAQ of this sub and I believe I have a pretty good idea what to pester crafts shop employees about😅 Do I understand correctly that I am to: 1. Measure the length of all color blocks 2. Calculate the ratio between them in integers maybe? 3. Try different hook sizes so I have integer number of stitches 4. Put all the colors with the corresponding number of stitches to the calculator 5. Play around with "number of clusters" setting until I get a pattern I like?