Blog ≫ 2015 ≫ DIY cross stitch patterns

This is good 1, Clare is into cross stitch at the moment. She's on her second one, something a bit more challenging, I'm keen for her to try and cross stitch a photo or something, so this tutorial 1 is good for taking a photo and making it into a cross stitch pattern. I'd add another step here which is changing the image to indexed (Image -> Mode -> Indexed) and reducing the number of colours to match the threads you have.

This reminds me of the zx81 "Print and Plotter Jotter" that we had, for drawing out your zx81 screens on paper first, I think I still have that somewhere, I am quite the hoarder. ZX81 museum 2 has mention of it.

  1. Removed old wikihow.com/Make-Cross-Stitching-Patterns-With-Gimp link here.
  2. Removed old zx81museum.net/zx81books.html link here.

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Paul Clarkeʼs blog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone, Kent. Married to Clare + father to two, I am a full-stack web engineer, and I do js / nodejs, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.