Turn a photo into a cross stitch pattern
Pick a photo, choose the size and how many colours, and get a chart where every square is a real DMC thread, with its symbol, its number and how many skeins to buy.
Download for Android
How it works
Three steps from a photo to stitching.
Pick a photo
Take a picture or choose one from your phone. Drag the corners to crop it to the part you want, and turn it if it is on its side.
Choose size and colours
Set the width in stitches, how many thread colours, your Aida count and strands. The preview updates as you go. Every colour is matched to the nearest of 454 DMC threads, and no two colours share a thread.
Stitch along
Pinch to zoom the chart, tap a thread to see only where it goes, and drag over squares to tick them off. Print the pattern pages or share them as a PDF.
Features
Everything in the app.
Real DMC threads
Colours are matched by how they look to the eye, not raw numbers, against the DMC colour list with known corrections.
Chart you can zoom
Colours, symbols, both, or a "stitched look" preview. Bold lines every 10 stitches, row and column numbers, and red arrows marking the middle.
Stitch-along progress
Tick off stitches by dragging over them. Pick one thread and only its stitches get marked. Progress is kept per thread and for the whole pattern.
My threads
Tick the threads you own. Make patterns from only those, or get a shopping list of what to buy, and share it.
Change colours after
Swap any thread for another DMC colour, merge two threads into one, or leave a colour unstitched so the cloth shows through.
Print and share
Pattern pages of 50 by 60 stitches with a cover and thread list, as a PDF to print or share. Or save the whole chart as one picture.
Sizes worked out
Finished size in inches and centimetres for 11 to 22 count, how much cloth to cut, and skeins for 1, 2 or 3 strands.
Fingerprint lock
Optional: lock the app with your fingerprint, face or phone PIN.
Stays on your phone
Patterns are made and saved on the phone. The app has no internet permission, so nothing is sent anywhere.
Screenshots
From the app on a phone.
Download
For Android phones and tablets, Android 7.0 or later.
Download Cross Stitch MakerInstalling it
- Tap Download on your phone.
- Open the downloaded file. If the phone asks, allow your browser to install unknown apps (it asks once).
- Tap Install, then Open.
On a Kindle Fire, allow Apps from Unknown Sources in Settings, Security and Privacy.
Checking the file
The SHA-256 of the download:
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Signed by "G. Shumway", certificate SHA-256:
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