Terms of use

These terms govern your use of Knitglass, a service operated by Beeju that reads a knitting pattern you own and prepares it to be followed row by row. By accessing Knitglass or signing in, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

1. Accounts and eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old, or have permission from a parent or legal guardian, to use Knitglass. Sign-in is provided through a supported Google or personal Microsoft account. You are responsible for protecting that provider account and for activity performed through your Knitglass account.

2. What Knitglass provides

Knitglass prepares supported knitting patterns so they can be followed row by row, stores processed sizes, and provides chart, progress, gauge and note tools.

The service may change as preparation and recovery tools improve. We may add, modify, suspend or remove functions where reasonably necessary for security, reliability, legal compliance or product development.

3. Pattern rights and permitted use

Patterns remain the property of their authors, designers and publishers. Knitglass is a utility for patterns you already own ("Bring Your Own License"). Knitglass is not a free library or sharing platform. You must supply your own legally acquired file or account import, and you represent and warrant that you have lawful access to any pattern you upload or prepare here, and every permission that use requires. Do not use Knitglass to copy, distribute, publish, sell or share copyrighted material unlawfully.

In much of Europe a person may make copies of a work they lawfully acquired for their own private use: in Switzerland under Article 19 of the Copyright Act, and in the European Union under Article 5(2)(b) of Directive 2001/29. Whether a particular use is permitted depends on the pattern and on where you are, which is why the permission above is yours to give and not ours to assume.

You retain rights in material you lawfully provide. You give Knitglass a limited permission to store, analyse, prepare and display that material, and to make the copies those steps require - storing a file writes one, sending its text to be read makes another - only as needed to provide, secure and support the service. Access to a pattern is granted only to someone who already holds the right to that pattern; Knitglass does not hand a designer's work to a person who has no claim to it. Someone granted access can read the pattern, its processed sizes and the source document it was made from, on the same terms as any other reader here.

That permission is for running the service and for nothing else. A designer's pattern text, charts, photographs and anything else of theirs are not used in Knitglass marketing, demonstrations, screenshots, published examples or anything else we show to people who are not reading that pattern, unless the designer has given permission for that use. Permission for one of those is not permission for the others, and permission once given can be withdrawn.

4. Taking a pattern down

If you are a designer, publisher or other rights holder, you can have a pattern of yours taken off Knitglass. Tell us through the contact form and we will act on it. It helps to say which pattern it is, where on Knitglass you saw it, and what your right to it is; if you are writing on someone else's behalf, say whose. You do not have to give a reason, and it makes no difference whether it was put here with your permission or without it.

We are not the right people to decide whether a knitter's licence let them bring your pattern here. Our only reason for holding it is their word that they were entitled to, and when you tell us otherwise, that reason is gone. So the pattern comes off, and where the two of you disagree, you settle it between you.

A knitter whose pattern is taken down keeps the pattern. It is theirs, they bought it, and nothing here reaches the copy on their own computer - what they lose is the reading of it on Knitglass. We will normally tell them the pattern was taken down and who asked, so they can take it up with you if they want to.

Separately from any of that: where somebody provides a pattern they never had any right to provide, we remove it, and an account doing that more than once may lose access to Knitglass. A knitter who bought a pattern and misjudged what their licence allowed has not done that, and is not treated as though they had.

Whoever provided the material can answer, and if they show they were entitled to provide it, it may be restored. We decide these between the two of you, we decide them once, and our decision is the end of the matter here - it does not stop either of you taking it further elsewhere.

5. Automated preparation and knitting safety

Preparing a pattern begins with an automated reading of the words printed in it. That reading is one step and a small one. The stitch counts, the increases and decreases, the chart squares and the row-by-row sequence a knitter actually follows are worked out afterwards by Knitglass's own deterministic code, and checked against the counts the pattern itself prints. None of that arithmetic is produced by an AI model, and an AI model never writes into a saved pattern.

That does not make the result correct. An automated reading can miss a row, mistake a stitch symbol, take a number from the wrong size or misread a chart, and the checks that follow catch much of that but not all of it. “Ready”, “verified” and similar labels describe checks the application has run; they are not a guarantee that a prepared pattern is free of error.

Always compare instructions with the original pattern before and during knitting, especially for stitch counts, decreases, increases, shaping and size selection. Knitglass is a companion to the pattern you own, not a replacement for it or for professional instruction.

6. Acceptable use

You must not:

• upload material you are not authorised to use;
• attempt to access another person’s account or restricted pattern;
• share, guess, automate or abuse promotion codes or access controls;
• interfere with the service, probe it for vulnerabilities, introduce malware or overwhelm its infrastructure;
• use what Knitglass prepares to infringe rights, mislead others or break applicable law.

7. Availability, deletion and suspension

Knitglass is run on a best-effort basis. It is built and changed continuously and depends on services we do not operate, so continuous availability is not guaranteed, features may be added, changed or removed, and maintenance or an outside outage may interrupt it. Keep your original pattern and anything you cannot afford to lose. Administrators may remove failed, duplicate, unlawful or inactive content and may suspend access where reasonably necessary to protect users, rights holders or the service.

You can take any pattern out of your own library yourself, from Manage pattern. That removes your progress, notes and swatches for it. The place it took in your pattern allowance is not given back - an allowance counts what you have added, not what you are holding right now. Deletion of other account information can be requested through the contact form. Some limited records may be retained where required by law, security or dispute resolution.

8. Voluntary support

The Buy Me a Coffee link is an optional way to support Beeju. A qualifying one-time contribution can activate the Knitglass Supporter tier, and a qualifying membership can activate the Subscriber tier, when the Buy Me a Coffee email matches your Knitglass account. Refunds, pauses, cancellations and membership updates can change that access automatically. These tiers do not purchase pattern rights, guaranteed availability or priority support. Payments are handled by Buy Me a Coffee under its own terms.

9. Third-party services

Knitglass relies on third parties for sign-in, hosting, storage, email and the automated reading of pattern text. Their services may have separate terms and privacy notices. External links are provided for convenience; we do not control their content or availability.

Connecting a Ravelry account is one of those. Knitglass is not made by, associated with or endorsed by Ravelry, and your use of that connection is also subject to Ravelry's own terms. Ravelry decides what its interface does and may change or withdraw it, so the connection may stop working; patterns you have already brought across are unaffected by that.

One thing about it you should know before you use it. Ravelry may require us to stop using and destroy anything we took from them, and anything we made from it. If that happens to a pattern of yours, the pattern and the rows prepared from it are deleted, and we will tell you. Your own copy of the pattern is untouched - it is on your computer and in your Ravelry library, and nothing here reaches either.

10. Disclaimers and responsibility

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude implied warranties that are not expressly stated here. We are not responsible for losses caused by reliance on an inaccurate prepared pattern, failure to retain the original pattern, unauthorised account access outside our reasonable control, or third-party services.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from using Knitglass, being unable to use it, or relying on it - including lost work, lost time, wasted materials, and loss or corruption of data.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot legally be excluded, including applicable consumer rights or liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence.

11. Changes, governing law and disputes

We may update these terms to reflect service, security or legal changes. The date above identifies the current version. Material changes will be communicated where appropriate. If a dispute arises, please contact us first so we can try to resolve it. Any mandatory consumer protections and jurisdiction rights in your country remain unaffected.

These terms, and any dispute arising from them or from your use of Knitglass, are governed by Swiss law, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Subject to any mandatory place of jurisdiction provided by law, disputes are submitted to the competent courts of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. If you are a consumer, none of that takes away the protection of the mandatory rules where you live, or the courts you are entitled to use there.

12. Claims, and the rest of this agreement

If someone brings a claim against us because of a pattern you provided, or because you broke these terms, you agree to cover what it reasonably costs us to deal with it, including legal costs. We will tell you about any such claim promptly and give you the chance to take it on yourself.

These terms are the whole agreement between us about Knitglass. If a court finds part of them unenforceable, the rest still stands and that part is read as closely to its intent as the law allows. Not enforcing something once does not waive it. The sections that are meant to outlast the agreement do: the rights in what you provided, the disclaimers, the limits above, and this section. You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours if the service does.

13. Contact

Knitglass is operated by Beeju from the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Questions about these terms can be sent through the contact form.