Cross-Stitch Pattern

Chart

Colors Symbols Stitched

The arrows on the edges mark the middle, where you usually start. Zoom with the buttons, or the wheel with ⌘Ctrl. Click a color in the list to pick out its stitches.

Threads

Symbol	DMC	Name	Stitches	Skeins	Actions

The fabric button leaves a color unstitched, as the background; the bin removes it, its stitches taking the nearest color left. Skeins to buy are an estimate (8 m of six strands, a third more for starts and ends). Thread colors: craft-color-codes by MakeBead, CC BY 4.0; a screen only shows them roughly, check them against a real shade card.

Pattern

Width

Colors 16

At most: two close colors become one DMC thread.

Blend the colors (dithering)

Smoother shading for a photo, with more lone stitches to make.

Remove lone stitches

A stitch surrounded on four sides by another color takes it.

Aida

Strands

Fabric

White Antique white Ecru Black

What the unstitched background is: transparent areas, and the colors you leave as fabric.

Colors in the PDF

Off: black symbols on white, for a printer without color.

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Stitches

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Finished size

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Colors

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Lone stitches