Free Cross Stitch Tools & Calculators

Calculators, thread and bead conversions, color charts, and pattern file openers — for cross stitch, needlepoint, diamond painting, and fuse beads. Free, no signup, all in your browser.

Photo to Pattern Converter

Turn any photo into a stitchable pattern. Real thread colors, adjustable size, instant preview.

Diamond painting

Photo to Diamond Painting

Convert any photo to a drill chart with DMC codes and a per-color drill key. Round or square drills.

Fuse beads

Photo to Fuse Beads

Convert a photo or pixel art to a bead pattern in true bead colors, with per-color counts and a printable PDF.

Image to Thread Palette

Extract matched floss colors from any photo. 50+ brands, perceptual matching.

Design Your Own Pattern

Start from scratch or a blank grid. Full editor with realistic preview, PDF export, and FLOW scoring.

Cross stitch

QR Code to Pattern

Encode a URL or text as a stitchable QR code. Realistic preview, PDF or editor.

Calculators

Cross stitch

Cross Stitch Fabric Calculator

Enter your pattern dimensions, get exact fabric size with margins.

Cross stitch

Cross Stitch Time Calculator

Realistic hours and weeks from stitch count. Accounts for thread changes and breaks.

Cross stitch

Cross Stitch Thread Calculator

Skeins per color with safety margin. Works with any fabric count and strand count.

Needlepoint

Needlepoint Canvas Calculator

Finished size, canvas to buy, needle size, and time from stitch count and mesh — with 13↔18 mesh resize targets.

Needlepoint

Needlepoint Wool Calculator

Appleton skeins and hanks from your stitch count — crewel, tapestry, and DMC cotton with strand adjustments.

Diamond painting

Diamond Painting Size Calculator

Canvas centimeters to drill counts and back — square or round pitch, total drills, bags, and grams with an overage pad.

Fuse beads

Fuse Bead Pegboard Calculator

Bead counts to finished size and back for mini, midi, and maxi beads — plus how many pegboards the design spans.

Knitting

Knitting Gauge Calculator

Gauge from a swatch, stitches to cast on with repeats and selvedge, pattern conversion, long-tail length.

Crochet

Crochet Blanket Calculator

Standard blanket sizes, blocks per side, C2C rows, and yarn per color in yards and skeins.

Cross stitch

Cross Stitch Graph Paper

Printable blank grid at your exact count. True-to-size PDF with a ruler to check print scaling.

Knitting

Knitter's Graph Paper

Cells shaped to your stitch and row gauge, numbered right to left and bottom to top like a colorwork chart.

Pattern File Openers

Open PCStitch Files

View .pat files on any device. Quality score, confetti heatmap, PDF export. No install.

Open Pattern Maker Files

View .xsd files on any device. Quality score, confetti heatmap, PDF export. No install.

Open OXS Files

View .oxs files with quality analysis your editor doesn't have. FLOW Score, confetti heatmap, brand remapping.

Open Stitchly Files

View .stitchly patterns from the iPad app on any device. Export to PDF or OXS.

Thread & Bead Conversion

Thread Conversion Chart

DMC to Anchor, Madeira, Cosmo, hand-dyes, silks, wools, beads and yarn — 50+ brands, every direction, match quality on every result.

DMC to Anchor Conversion

489 colors with match quality percentages and ranked alternatives.

Needlepoint

Appleton to DMC Conversion

Match wool shades to floss codes and back, with quality percentages for all 430 Appleton colors.

DMC to Madeira Conversion

366 colors with match quality percentages and ranked alternatives.

Cross stitch

Weeks Dye Works to DMC

355 hand-dyed colors matched to their closest DMC equivalents.

Cross stitch

Classic Colorworks to DMC

80 hand-dyed colors matched to their closest DMC equivalents.

Cross stitch

Cosmo to DMC Conversion

499 Cosmo Seasons colors with match quality percentages and alternatives.

Diamond painting

Diamond Dotz to DMC Conversion

Every Dotz code with its exact DMC equivalent — an identity mapping, not an approximation. Printable.

Fuse beads

Perler, Hama & Artkal Conversion

Match any bead color across the three big fuse bead palettes, in every direction, with match percentages.

Yarn Color Charts (C2C Crochet)

Red Heart Super Saver Color Chart

The 72 currently listed solid Super Saver shades with numbers, names, and approximate hex values sampled from manufacturer photos.

Caron One Pound Color Chart

All 46 currently listed One Pound shades with numbers, names, and approximate hex values sampled from manufacturer photos.

Bernat Super Value Color Chart

All 60 currently listed Super Value shades with numbers, names, and approximate hex values sampled from manufacturer photos.

Thread & Bead Color Charts

See how your photo converts

Cross stitch is a real commitment — real thread, real hours, real frustration if the pattern doesn't work. Stitchmate lets you see exactly what you're getting into before you buy the first skein.

Upload an image, adjust the settings, check the FLOW Score — about 30 seconds to know if it'll work. Everything up to PDF export is free, no account needed.

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