Desk 02 · Cross-stitch
Charts you can count from.
Counted charts, converted stitch by stitch, with DMC keys you can buy at any craft shop. Every one ships as a PDF with a colour grid and a symbol grid — so it prints legibly on a home printer in black and white, and reads correctly on a tablet beside your hoop.
Botanical
Folk
Small things
Better value
Botanical bundle — twenty charts
The whole botanical range in one PDF, priced at about three quarters of a dollar a chart. Bundles are what most people actually buy — a single chart is a weekend, twenty is a winter.
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How a chart is made
Converted, then checked by hand.
Software converts an image to stitches in seconds. What it cannot do is decide that a single isolated stitch in the middle of a field is a mistake rather than detail. So every chart here goes through a cleanup pass: stray stitches folded into their neighbours, the palette cut down to what a shop actually stocks, and the whole thing stitched once as a test before it is listed.
That is also why the shop is small. Twenty clean charts take longer than two hundred auto-converted ones, and only one of those two things earns repeat buyers.
Before you buy
- What exactly is in the PDF?
- Three things on consecutive pages: a colour chart with each stitch in its DMC shade, a black-and-white symbol chart for cheap printing, and a thread key listing symbol, DMC number, colour name, and stitch count. Plus a cover page with finished dimensions on 14, 16 and 18 count.
- Will it work with Pattern Keeper?
- Yes. Charts are exported as text-based PDFs with selectable symbol layers, which is what Pattern Keeper needs. If a chart ever fails to import, email me and I will send a corrected file the same day.
- Do I need to buy the exact DMC threads?
- No. The key gives DMC numbers because that is the only numbering every shop in the world shares, but any floss matched to those shades will stitch up the same. Every chart also notes the closest Anchor equivalents for the main colours.
- Are the patterns original?
- Yes. Each one is either art I drew or public-domain art — nothing traced from another designer, and nothing using a trademarked character. Two charts in the shop are adapted from paintings whose copyright has expired; the source is named on the cover page.
- Can I sell what I stitch?
- Finished pieces, yes — sell them, gift them, photograph them. The PDF itself you may not resell or share. That is the only restriction, and it is the same one every pattern shop uses.
Anything else: hello@zllib.com