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Size & colors

Chart

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Choose a picture or drag one here · JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF, up to 25 MB

Getting the picture ready…

Free Square Original

or An empty grid and an empty palette. You draw every stitch yourself.

Photos, drawings and logos all work. Bold shapes and clear contrast stitch best — fine detail disappears once the picture is down to a few thousand stitches.

Pattern name

What is this picture?

Photo or illustration Shaded and full of colors. The picture is averaged down to one color per stitch. Pixel art Already drawn pixel by pixel. Every pixel becomes one stitch, exactly as it is.

A blank chart

How many stitches across and down? You can crop it in the editor later.

Wide

Tall

Colors to draw with

DMC Anchor Both

Only my floss box

One pixel per stitch In floss

Size in stitches —

5 240

Wide

Tall

Fabric

Aida count

cm in

Shape

Circular

Work the chart inside a ring, with the fabric left bare outside it.

Picture in the ring Fills it

Fills the circle Fits inside it

Picture

Auto-optimize

Contrast 0

Softer Punchier

Floss

Brand

DMC Anchor Both

DMC color conversion

Modern table Stitchmate

Choose which published RGB colors represent the DMC shades.

Choose from My colors ›

All colors My colors 0

Charting out of your own skeins needs an account to keep the list of them in.

Matching colors to floss

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Stitch count

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Floss colors

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Stitches to work

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On 14-count aida

Floss

Colors 20

5 skeins 60 skeins

Colors 20

1 20 in your palette

Your palette is fixed. This keeps the colors it can least do without — it never picks new ones.

Picture

Detail Original

Maximum smoothing Original

Smooths small color variations while protecting stronger edges. This often creates larger areas and fewer isolated stitches, but may remove subtle texture.

Advanced

Edge protection

More smoothingProtect subtle edges

Confetti cleanup

OffAggressive

Areas

— Areas

— Confetti

— Median size

Separate patches of a single floss, each one started and finished on its own. Confetti is any patch up to three stitches, and the middle size is taken over everything larger than that.

Larger areas let you get into the flow: fewer thread changes, less counting, more stitching.

Advanced settings

Color picking Balanced

Large areasRare accents

How the colors are chosen

Optimized Clustered

What counts as a bad match

Square Direct

Every run starts somewhere different, so the same picture can divide into a different set of colors. Keep the one you like.

Saved to your patterns already. Go back a step to change the size or the picture.

Floss list

Most used Color card Code

Removed — click to put back

Left out at this count — click to keep

Added colors are locked, and unlocking one takes it out again.

Rebuild the palette?

Open the editor for detailed or manual adjustments.

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Stitch count

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Floss colors

How this will stitch —

Saved to your patterns already. Continue when the chart is how you want it.

Keep your stitch edits?

The steps back there build the chart from the picture again, so the moment you change anything — the size, the tone, a color — every stitch you edited by hand is gone. Change nothing and your edits are still here when you come back.

Your pattern is ready

It is saved to your patterns. The PDF holds everything you need at the frame.

Color chart Colored cells with their symbols Black & white chart The printable one Preview with grid Colors only, for placing your work Preview How the finished piece will look

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The pattern is saved here, on this device only. Clearing your browsing data or moving to another device will lose it. Make an account to keep it safely.

Confetti tool Clean up tiny stranded areas

There is no confetti (tiny stranded areas) in this chart.

Auto Brush

Strength

ConservativeBalancedAggressive

How this will stitch

Round Square

Size

Drag out a rectangle, then drag it to move it.

Drag out the part of the chart to keep.

Click to go in, right-click to go out, drag to move around. Holding space drags the chart in any tool.

Fills every stitch of one color joined to the one you click.

Palette

All floss colors Hue across · strong, muted then soft down each column, light to dark · true grays last

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Throw away these edits?

The stitches you changed here have not been saved. Closing now leaves the chart exactly as it was before you opened the editor.

How this will stitch —