criscros

Turn any photo into a cross-stitch pattern

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One payment per photo. Make as many patterns from it as you like.

01 Your photo
A picture of a Bernese mountain dog
02 The pattern20 threads
The same picture as a pattern of 109 by 110 stitches
03 The chart, square by square
Bernese · 109 × 110 20 threads · 11,990 stitches
The pattern viewer, zoomed in: every square has its thread color and a symbol, with a heavier line every ten stitches
DMC 783 Topaz MED col 43 · row 31

From photo to finished piece

Each of these was stitched from a criscros pattern. Photo on the left, thread on the right.

Two dogs, photographed and cross-stitched
Jay & Beau
Two cats, photographed and cross-stitched in a hoop
Bob & Morty
A dog, photographed and cross-stitched
Leo
A cat, photographed and cross-stitched in a frame
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How it works

01

Upload a photo

A pet, a person, a place or a drawing. JPG, PNG or GIF, up to 10 MB.

02

Choose size and colors

Set the size in stitches, up to 400 on the long side, and how many thread colors you want to work with.

03

Stitch from the screen

Zoom in, light up one color at a time and tick off the ones you have finished. Every square carries its DMC thread number.

More on choosing a photo, a size and a number of colors, and a chart of how big each size comes out.

$5 per photo, paid once No subscription and no account fee.
  • Unlimited patterns from each photo.
  • Every stitch matched to one of 490 DMC thread colors.
  • Online pattern and status tracker, print out patterns.
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About the threads

Patterns use DMC stranded cotton numbers. Some other brands follow the same numbering, but the colors are matched to DMC, so that is what we recommend. You will find it in most craft shops and at dmc.com.