# Yarn Squirrel - Because Every Pattern Deserves a Home

Jenni built a knitting and crochet app that pulls your Ravelry library, your PDFs, and browser finds into one place, and now clips patterns from Safari.

I don’t knit. I don’t crochet. I have never once counted a row in my life. So when Jennifer Brehm shows me the latest thing she added to Yarn Squirrel, I mostly nod along and go “okay but is that hard to build,” and she tells me, and then I nod some more.
But even I can see what she solved this time, and it’s a real problem.
If you knit or crochet, your patterns live everywhere. Some are on Ravelry. Some are PDFs a designer emailed you. Some are just a page you found on Safari at 11pm and bookmarked, hoping you’d remember it existed. Three sources, three places to look, and none of them talk to each other. Jenni built the thing that makes them talk to each other.
Web clipping. You’re on a pattern page in Safari, you like it, you hit the share sheet, you tap Yarn Squirrel. Done. The app pulls the name, the designer, the description, a thumbnail, and files it straight into your library next to everything else. No copy-pasting a URL into a notes app. No screenshot you’ll never find again. It’s just there, saved, searchable, alongside your Ravelry queue and your imported PDFs.
That’s the part I actually get excited about, and I don’t even use the app. One library. Doesn’t matter where the pattern came from. That’s the whole pitch and it’s a good one.
Bits & Bobs is the other new one, and it’s very Jenni: small, unglamorous, obviously needed the second you hear it. Every project drags along a pile of physical stuff that isn’t yarn - which needle size you used, which stitch markers, which buttons you’re planning to sew on at the end. Normally that lives in your head, or on a sticky note, or nowhere, and you find out it lived nowhere when you start the second sock and can’t remember if it was a 3.5mm or a 3.75mm. Bits & Bobs logs the supplies and tools against the project itself. You open the project, the gear list is right there.
Small feature. But it’s the kind of small feature that only gets built by someone who has actually lost track of a needle size mid-project, which Jenni has, because she’s the one who knits.
That’s the thing about this app that keeps standing out to me. It’s not a company’s idea of what knitters want. It’s Jenni’s own list of things that annoyed her, fixed one at a time. The row counters exist because she was losing count. The label scanner exists because her yarn stash was a mystery drawer. The web clipping and the supply log exist because her patterns and her gear were scattered across four different places and she got tired of it. I’ve watched enough software get built by committee to know the difference, and this isn’t that.
Yarn Squirrel is free to download on iOS, with a paid tier if you want everything unlocked - monthly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase if you know you’re keeping it. You can find it at yarn-squirrel.app.
I’m still not going to learn to knit. But I’ll keep telling you when Jenni builds something clever, because she keeps doing it.