Turn a photo into a cross-stitch pattern

StitchZoid turns a photograph into a counted cross-stitch chart: a symbol grid, a thread list with a stitch count for every colour, and the finished size on the fabric you are using.

How it works

1. Choose a photo and crop it to the part you want to stitch.
2. Set the size: how many stitches wide, which Aida count (11, 14, 16 or 18), and how many colours, from 2 to 32. The finished size and the fabric to buy are worked out as you change them.
3. Make the chart, then fix any stitch by hand, swap one colour for another everywhere, or compare the chart with the photo.
4. Print it as a PDF tiled across pages at a stitch size you can read, or download the thread list as a spreadsheet.

Charts made for paper

Every colour gets its own symbol, so the chart still works photocopied in black and white. Large charts are split across pages rather than shrunk onto one, with the rows and columns on each page labelled so you can find your place.

Good to know

• Charts are whole cross stitches only: no fractional stitches, backstitch or French knots.
• Colours are matched to DMC stranded cotton, so the thread list gives the DMC number and name to buy for each colour, and how many stitches use it.
• Your photo never leaves your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

Not sure how big it will come out? See how big a cross-stitch chart is on each Aida count, how to read the chart, or browse the DMC colour chart it matches to.

DMC is a trademark of its owner. StitchZoid is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to DMC.