Cross stitch guides
Short, practical guides for stitchers, from your very first X to designing your own patterns.
How to turn a photo into a cross stitch pattern
A practical guide to making a cross stitch pattern from a photo: choosing the photo, pattern size, number of colors, cleaning up stray stitches and printing the chart.
Read the guide →How to read a cross stitch pattern
Learn to read a cross stitch chart: what each square and symbol means, how to use the thread key, find the center, count stitches and follow backstitch lines.
Read the guide →Cross stitch for beginners
What you need to start cross stitch, how to make your first stitches, start and end threads without knots, and choose an easy first project you will finish.
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