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.
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Photo to Pattern Converter
Turn any photo into a stitchable pattern. Real thread colors, adjustable size, instant preview.
Photo to Diamond Painting
Convert any photo to a drill chart with DMC codes and a per-color drill key. Round or square drills.
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. 60+ 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 Text Generator
Cross stitch letters, names and alphabets: type the text, pick a font, size and DMC color. Free A–Z sheets.
Needlepoint Text Generator
Names and monograms in tent stitch, with the size in inches at your canvas mesh.
QR Code to Pattern
Encode a URL or text as a stitchable QR code. Realistic preview, PDF or editor.
Calculators
Cross Stitch Calculator
Finished fabric size, framing margins, needle size and a time estimate — from your stitch count.
Cross Stitch Time Calculator
Realistic hours and weeks from stitch count. Accounts for thread changes and breaks.
Cross Stitch Thread Calculator
Skeins per color with safety margin. Works with any fabric count and strand count.
Needlepoint Canvas Calculator
Finished size, canvas to buy, needle size, and time from stitch count and mesh — with 13↔18 mesh resize targets.
Needlepoint Wool Calculator
Appleton skeins and hanks from your stitch count — crewel, tapestry, and DMC cotton with strand adjustments.
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 Bead Pegboard Calculator
Bead counts to finished size and back for mini, midi, and maxi beads — plus how many pegboards the design spans.
Knitting Gauge Calculator
Gauge from a swatch, stitches to cast on with repeats and selvedge, pattern conversion, long-tail length.
Crochet Blanket Calculator
Standard blanket sizes, blocks per side, C2C rows, and yarn per color in yards and skeins.
Cross Stitch Graph Paper
Printable blank grid at your exact count. True-to-size PDF with a ruler to check print scaling.
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 a PDF Pattern
Track a designer's PDF chart on any device. Early access, free.
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 — 60+ brands, every direction, match quality on every result.
DMC to Anchor Conversion
489 colors with match quality percentages and ranked alternatives.
Appleton to DMC Conversion
Match wool shades to floss codes and back, with quality percentages for all 430 Appleton colors.
DMC to Madeira Conversion
381 colors with match quality percentages and ranked alternatives.
Cosmo to DMC Conversion
500 Cosmo Seasons colors with match quality percentages and alternatives.
Gentle Art to DMC Conversion
133 Sampler Threads colors matched to their closest DMC equivalents.
J&P Coats to DMC Conversion
71 current J&P Coats colors and 197 vintage codes matched to DMC.
Sullivans to DMC Conversion
454 Sullivans floss colors matched to their closest DMC equivalents.
Presencia to DMC Conversion
241 Finca mouliné colors matched to their closest DMC equivalents.
Kreinik to DMC Conversion
184 Kreinik metallics matched to DMC floss colors, and back.
Hex to DMC Converter
Any hex or RGB color matched to the closest DMC floss, or any other brand.
Dimensions to DMC Conversion
425 Dimensions kit floss colors matched to their closest DMC equivalents.
Soie d'Alger to DMC Conversion
643 Soie d'Alger silk shades matched to DMC cotton, and back.
Paternayan to DMC Conversion
280 Paternayan Persian wool shades matched to DMC floss colors.
Luca-S to DMC Conversion
511 Luca-S floss colors matched to their closest DMC equivalents.
ThreadworX to DMC Conversion
281 ThreadworX overdyed colors matched to solid DMC.
Valdani to DMC Conversion
326 Valdani hand-dyed colors matched to their closest DMC equivalents.
Gamma to DMC Conversion
598 solid Gamma floss colors matched to their closest DMC equivalents.
Mill Hill Beads to DMC Conversion
523 Mill Hill bead colors matched to DMC floss, and back.
Diamond Dotz to DMC Conversion
Every Dotz code with its exact DMC equivalent — an identity mapping, not an approximation. Printable.
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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