How wonderful, Cathy!

Dear Paivi,
Oh! I just began to teach myself cross stitch and then up pops your email discussion about cross stitch! Flosstube is so helpful and entertaining. It’s wonderful to realize you are designing patterns. The leaves are perfect for a stitch pattern, then the cat, and the horse. So difficult to choose. Hugs from your old painting student in the US.
Cathy

Thank you, Jane! How wonderful that you have been knitting folk bags!

Thank you, Lynne!

I hope I understood your question correctly, but this is how I see it:

If you want to print the design onto needlepoint canvas, then it’s not counted stitch project anymore but the printed areas dictate where you place the stitches. So the chart plays no role there. I would just make the design in any image processing program and then get it printed on canvas. I don’t know if home printers can do the job, but there must be printing companies that can do it.

If you want to make a chart and then stitch a counted needlepoint project using the chart, then the Stitchly app can be used.

Thank you, Jacqueline! For Primavera, you will need 11 skeins of DMC embroidery floss, one of each color. The color codes are listed in the product description, one of the product images, and in the pattern. The DMC skeins are small ones but you will have leftovers as in cross stitch, you cut a piece of 6-strand thread and then divide the piece so that you get 3 cuts of 2-strand floss for Aida fabric number 14. If you use a different fabric, make a test stitch with 1, 2 and 3 strands and then decide what’s the best thickness. I hope this helps!!

Question. I do not cross stitch, I needlepoint. Does that app you mentioned convert drawing into needlepoint canvas? A few years ago I searched but didn’t find one that I could use to design and then print out the art onto a canvas. Any ideas?

Many thanks!
Lynne
Vancouver Island