Photo to cross-stitch pattern
Turn an image into a small cross-stitch chart with numbered colours, stitch counts and a printable key.
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- On a computer
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How to use this tool
- Choose an image, a stitch width and maximum palette size.
- Review the pixel preview and download the tiled chart, colour key and CSV counts.
Things to know
- Up to 25 MiB per image, 50 MiB combined and 16 million pixels per image. Results are created in a local worker. Metadata is removed and colours may change on re-encoding.
- Up to 100 by 150 stitches. Colours are RGB approximations, not DMC or Anchor thread matches. Each numbered cell represents one full cross stitch.
- Processing and results stay on this device. Inputs are bounded; no work is saved between visits.
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