#PUPPY DOG PALS CROSS STITCH GRAPH SOFTWARE#

I just had to attach the sewn picture from my first pattern done by you. Good morning Jennifer from the UK I hope you are keeping well and safe. She seems confident in what we had done, but here is what she says about stitching this piece. I didn’t know Jane was nervous about this piece at all.

When you’re happy with the finished result, you’re ready to begin stitching and using your own cross stitch pattern to work from.Jane stitched this beautiful puppy as a gift for her family.

Create your own key down the side of the graph paper (or on a separate piece of paper but remember to keep them stored together) listing your chosen thread shades, along with a sample swatch of the colour that they correspond to.

We recommend starting to stitch from the centre of a pattern in the middle of your piece of fabric

Once complete, find the centre of your pattern and mark it at the edges of your chart for reference.

Make sure to draw lines through the corners of the grid squares to correspond with the stitch corners you’ll work the thread through.

When you’ve finished colouring in the squares, draw on any backstitch lines using dark coloured pens and a ruler if required.

You should work neatly to keep the colours within the gridlines for easy reading.

Once you’re happy with your rough outline, you can start colouring in the squares using coloured pens or pencils.

Use an eraser to rub out mistakes if needed.

Lightly draw your design outline onto the grid paper using a pencil, making sure to keep to the square corners of the boxes when drawing angles or curved lines.

A lot of charts count in 10 squares, so 10×10 gridded paper is the best option for designing your patterns, as it’s already divided up into sections to make it easier to read and stitch from. You may find a ruler useful too if intending to include backstitch lines. Prefer to stick with the old-school way to make your own cross stitch pattern? No problem! For a quick and easy way to design your own cross stitch pattern you just need some basic supplies, including graph paper and some coloured pencils or pens.

Make your own cross stitch pattern using graph paper

#PUPPY DOG PALS CROSS STITCH GRAPH SOFTWARE#

Though you might think that designing your own cross stitch digitally is only for professionals, did you know there’s another way you can make your own cross stitch using a program you probably already have on your computer? That’s right, there’s no need to splash out on expensive design software if you have Microsoft Excel to hand – say goodbye to spreadsheets and hello to a whole new world of cross stitch pattern making! If you don’t have Microsoft Excel you can also follow the same principle online using Google Sheets (you just need a free Google account).īoth methods require only a basic understanding of cross stitch and we’ll talk you through the steps involved to design your own cross stitch pattern to start today. Then simply match these to your coloured pencils or pens, and you can start drawing! A shade card or skeins of your chosen thread colours is useful too, for picking the colours and combinations. You may have heard of, or even tried, the DIY method of creating your own cross stitch pattern using graph paper – all you need are some basic supplies to hand-draw your design with coloured pencils or pens on some gridded 10×10 graph paper. Make your own cross stitch pattern and stitch exactly what you want when you want! You just need a little imagination and anyone can give it a try.

Puppy dog pals cross stitch graph