Tips for Designing Your Own Cross Stitch Patterns – Cross-Stitch

I don’t hearken to a variety of podcasts about crafting or the rest, however I did just lately come throughout this older podcast from Hannah Handmakes with Nicola from Conscious Stitching Firm that’s all about the way to design cross sew patterns.

In the end it’s about her course the place you may study every thing you should find out about designing cross sew patterns for your self or to promote, however there are some good ideas in there for anybody who’s interested by getting beginning making their very own charts.

They speak about getting inspiration and utilizing a sketchbook and transferring designs to gridded paper or utilizing a program to design your cross sew charts (they speak so much about utilizing PCStitch, which does appear to be a well-liked alternative and has a variety of built-in motifs, fonts and borders that you need to use in your designs).

The podcast is about 35 minutes lengthy (and you’ll skip the primary jiffy as a result of they’re speaking about having been in lockdown) and it supplies a reasonably good overview of the way you would possibly go about getting began and fascinated about designing your personal charts. They speak about what’s provided within the class, copyright points, creating your personal fashion and extra.

And if you’re within the class (which is linked above), it’s an eight-part sequence with bonus sections that features data on discovering inspiration, sketching, graphing, selecting colours and supplies, working with pc software program, stitching your undertaking, ending and photographing your work. There’s a bonus part on the way to import images into cross sew chart design applications, as a result of it doesn’t at all times work the way in which you’d count on it to.

I haven’t finished a variety of cross sew design however listening to this podcast has form of impressed me to need to attempt to do a bit extra. Do you design cross sew patterns in your personal use or to promote? I’d love to listen to about it!

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