490 patterns · instant PDF download · whole stitches only
Counted cross stitch patterns,printed at home tonight.
Every chart here is a picture rather than a slogan, worked in whole cross stitch only — no backstitch, no fractional stitches, no french knots — and charted in real DMC floss numbers. Pay and the PDF is yours to print. Nothing is posted, nothing expires.
- Real DMC numbers
- Full stitches, no backstitch
- Instant download
- Secure checkout by Square
- patterns to choose from
- 490
- patterns to choose from
- collections
- 8
- collections
- subjects, from skulls to snails
- 26
- subjects, from skulls to snails
- backstitches, ever
- 0
- backstitches, ever
Just added
New patterns
Moth Eaten Lace
$6.00130×130 · 13 colours
Glowworm
$6.00130×130 · 14 colours
Hornet
$6.00130×130 · 13 colours
Luna Moth Pair
$6.00130×130 · 13 colours
Bumblebee And Clover
$6.00130×130 · 16 colours
Chrysalis Row
$6.00130×130 · 16 colours
Caterpillar And Leaf
$6.00130×130 · 12 colours
Moth Wing Study
$6.00130×130 · 16 colours
How it works
From checkout to first stitch in minutes
- 1
Pick a pattern
Browse by collection or by subject. Every product page shows the finished piece and a detail of the chart itself.
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Pay and download
Checkout runs through Square. The PDF is on your screen the moment the payment clears, and the link never expires.
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Print and stitch
Colour and symbol charts, a DMC floss key with skein counts, and finished sizes for 14, 16 and 18-count aida.
Collections
Browse by collection
Every shelf in the shop, and how many charts are on it. Looking for something specific? Find it by subject, or start with the guides.
Moths
Luna moths, hawkmoths and beetles, wings spread flat.
36 patterns →
Botanical
Foxglove, belladonna and dried seed heads.
36 patterns →
Celestial
Moon phases, suns and star charts, gold on black.
54 patterns →
Mushrooms
Fly agaric, toadstools and fairy rings.
48 patterns →
Tarot
Major arcana and the four aces, ornate on black.
35 patterns →
Witchy
Skulls, trees and ravens. Worked on black, no words.
134 patterns →
Day of the Dead
Sugar skulls and marigolds, bright against black.
46 patterns →
Cute Goth
Soft, round and a bit spooky. Pure picture, no words.
101 patterns →
Pattern maker
Or chart your own photograph
Upload a picture and get a counted chart back in the same format as everything else here — real DMC numbers, a symbol in every square, whole stitches only. You see exactly how it charts before you pay, and the photograph is discarded the moment it is charted.
Membership
Every pattern in the shop. $4.99 for your first month.
All 490 patterns, everything new as it lands, and unlimited charts from your own photos. Then $19.99 a month. Cancel any time and keep what you downloaded.
See the membershipCounted cross stitch patterns, drawn here
Stitch Patterns sells modern counted cross stitch patterns as instant PDF downloads. Every design is drawn here rather than bought in, so you will not find the same chart in forty other shops, and there is no lettering on any of them — the picture is the whole thing. There are 490 to choose from, and they are added to constantly.
Charts are built for stitching, not for looking good in a listing photograph. Colours are matched to real DMC floss perceptually, so the darks stay distinct instead of collapsing into one another, and scattered single stitches are cleaned out of every chart before it ships — nobody wants to rethread a needle for one square.
New to cross stitch?
Every pattern in the shop is whole cross stitch only. No backstitch, no quarter or three-quarter stitches, no french knots. One X per square, start to finish — which makes any of them a reasonable first project. Every chart in the shop is 130 stitches square, which finishes at about 9¼ inches on 14-count aida, 8¼ on 16-count and 7¼ on 18-count. What varies is the number of colours — from eight to sixteen — and that is the real measure of how much work a chart is. If you have never worked from a counted chart before, the beginner’s guide walks through reading one, what to buy, and how to pick a first pattern you will actually finish.
What is in the PDF
The colour chart, the same chart again in black and white symbols so it prints legibly on any printer, a floss key naming DMC shade numbers with how many skeins of each to buy, and the finished size worked out for 14, 16 and 18-count aida. It downloads the moment the payment clears. Nothing is posted to you and the link does not expire.
A chart from your own picture
If what you want is not in the shop, you can have it charted. The photo to cross stitch converter takes a picture you upload and returns a counted pattern in the same format as the rest of the catalogue, with the chart shown to you in full before you decide to buy it. Pets and single portraits chart best; group shots taken from a distance do not.
Made for coloured and black aida
A good many of these are drawn to be worked on dark cloth, which is not a detail. Rust, marigold and deep green read completely differently against black than they do against white — the dark is doing half the work, and it is why a finished piece looks like the picture rather than a washed out version of it. The commonest shade in each chart is named in the floss key, so you can buy aida in that colour and leave those squares bare rather than stitch a background.
If you stitch constantly, a membership is cheaper than buying four charts: it downloads every pattern in the shop, including everything added while you are a member, and every custom chart you make from your own photographs.
