Amigurumi Pattern Studio

I'm building a browser-based 3D editor for crochet designers: you manipulate and assemble shapes into a character, and the app instantly writes a stitch-by-stitch crochet pattern for each piece, including organic shapes, joint areas, and assembly instructions. The app grows and becomes smarter from every edge case it uncovers, and uses a built-in validator to re-read its own output to check the math.

The hardest part is translating the shape into a pattern: the user's customized shapes have to become a countable sequence of rounds, with increases and decreases landing in the right spots, and joins that hold up once the piece is stuffed. Every rule in the engine traces back to a mistake I've actually made or seen reported, so the output reads like a pattern a person would write, not a mesh dumped to text.

Writing patterns is the slowest, most error-prone part of running Pink Daisy Crochet. I'd design a character, crochet it, and then spend hours reverse-engineering what my hands already knew into rounds someone else could follow, usually finding a miscount two test-makes later.

So this is equal parts personal tool and design problem: what does a crochet-native editor feel like, and how much craft judgment can live in software without flattening the craft?

A short demo of the editor writing a pattern live is on the way. Check back, or see the finished side of the craft over at Pink Daisy.