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About Chart Stitch
Free charting tools for counted needlework, built to run entirely on your own device. No account, no upload, no paywall on the export button.
Why it works this way
Most chart makers ask you to register before you can download the thing you just made, and put the useful export formats behind a subscription. We think a chart you designed is yours the moment it exists, so everything here — the maker, the editor, the symbol chart, the floss list, the PDF — is free and needs no account.
The practical consequence is that your pictures stay yours. The converter runs in your browser: your image is read on your own device, charted there, and never sent anywhere. There is no server to send it to.
An honest word about colour
DMC does not publish official RGB values for its floss. Every on-screen colour table in every tool — ours included — is therefore an approximation, built by photographing or sampling thread and estimating. Ours merges three independent open datasets and takes the median of each channel, which cancels out the worst outliers in any single source; eleven shades where the three sources disagree badly are flagged in our data.
What this means in practice: trust the chart for shape, structure and stitch counts, and check a real floss card before buying thread. We would rather say this plainly than imply a precision that does not exist.
What the tools do and do not do
They produce full cross stitches on a square grid, with symbols and a DMC floss list, and they let you edit every stitch. They do not do fractional stitches, backstitch outlines, or blended threads; they do not convert a photograph into something usable without you tidying it; and they do not estimate how many skeins to buy, because there is no honest way to do that without knowing your tension and stitching habits.
Sizes quoted anywhere on this site come from one division — stitches divided by fabric count — and are exact arithmetic rather than estimates.
Start somewhere
About the colours. DMC does not publish official RGB values, so every on-screen colour table — including ours — is an approximation. Our 456-shade table is merged from three independent open datasets by taking the median of each channel; use it to plan the shape of a design, and check a real floss card before you buy thread. Charts you make here are yours, and nothing you upload leaves your browser: the converter runs entirely on your own device, with no account and no upload.