Cross-stitch
Charts you can count from.
Counted charts, converted stitch by stitch, with DMC keys you can buy at any craft shop. Every chart ships with a colour grid and a symbol grid, so it prints legibly in black and white.
Status
These six are drawn and being test-stitched. Nothing is on sale yet — email [email protected] with the chart name and you get the first copy at the launch price.
Botanical
Single Fern 62 × 96 stitches · 6 colours One frond, six greens, worked bottom-up. Sits well in a slim 4-inch hoop or as one panel of a triptych. 
Wildflower Posy 96 × 88 stitches · 12 colours Five open blooms on thin stems. Twelve colours is the ceiling — I kept it there so the floss bill stays under £10. 
Woodland Mushroom 84 × 78 stitches · 9 colours A stout red cap with cream spots, stitched on 14-count as a 15 cm square. Beginner friendly — no fractional stitches, no backstitch. Folk
Diamond Lattice 100 × 100 stitches · 3 colours A repeating geometric fill — the kind of chart you stitch while listening to something. Useful as a border or a cushion panel. 
Folk Star 90 × 90 stitches · 4 colours A four-point star in the Scandinavian folk idiom. Four colours, large blocks, quick to stitch — good first chart for a child. Small things
How a chart is made
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 check.
That is also why the shelf is small. Six clean charts take longer than sixty rough ones, and the rough ones are everywhere already.
Questions people actually ask
- What is actually in a chart file?
- Three pages on consecutive sheets: a colour chart with every 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.
- Does it work in Pattern Keeper?
- Yes. Charts are exported as text-based PDFs with a selectable symbol layer, which is what Pattern Keeper needs. If a chart ever fails to import, email me and I send a corrected file the same day.
- Do I have to use DMC thread?
- 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 lists the closest Anchor equivalents for the main colours.
- Are the designs original?
- Yes. Each one is either art I drew or public-domain art. Two are adapted from paintings whose copyright has expired, and 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.
Something not covered? [email protected] — I answer these myself.