Is there anything better than MicroRevolt’s knitPro? This can be used to adapt mega-crop logos for righteous handcrafting. Or for flowers. It superimposes a grid on top of your image, and spits it out as a PDF for printing. It also offers the appropriate stitch size.

Needlepoint, Cross Stitch, Crochet (1:1)
Knit Portrait (5:7)
Knit Landscape (7:5)

But today, I saw another tool that might be handy: Digital Stained Glass tool. Weaving Major created a butterfly that looks like stained glass using Digital Stained Glass ® and PixelBlocks. Wow that stuff is cool. Looks even better that LiteBright!

It occured to me (and probably to others!) that this could be used to make gridded -patterns, like cross-stitch. This is what the tool interface looks like below.

If you’ve ever tried to do this using Photoshop, you might be able to appreciate how handy this is. You can specify how many squares you want to to take up. In the next steps, you can enhance the image. It “dithers” the pattern so you can use a limited palette. But it only makes a square grid suitable for cross-stitching (and PixelBlocks, of course!)

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