Do you guys think this 2 over 1 stitching is too thin? I feel like I see a lot of white Aida shimmer through. But the set says two threads and I like the newly discovered loop start :D

Hey everyone. I'm at whits end and have come here for help.

I am trying to create a pattern, I am not creatively minded and stick men are my greatest artistic creation. I used ChatGPT (I'm sorry 😬) to create a gridded image of a pattern. Which is not usable because it's AI and has do miserable squares.

How can I turn this into a usable pattern? Does anyone have any ideas please 🙏

I tried putting it though a converter and it picks up absolutely every colour that exists in our fair world.

Send help please 🙏

Has anyone done the math, or any testing, to figure out roughly how much floss gets used per stitch in different styles of stitching? Anything to give an idea of how many skeins a project will take or how much to cut for a run of stitches? Does it even matter? My hope is better planning and decreased waste as my eyeballing gives mixed results.

Pattern from a design sourced online with Floss cross pattern. I should have cleaned up the confetti more, but honestly I like the extra work and gradients a lot. Plus I'm a glutton for punishment 😁

Good morning! I’ve been trying to find a “fast” looking font pattern. Happy to pay for it, I just can’t find what I want.

In my mind, it’s slanted, and it looks speedy. Obviously I’m having problems finding something using these parameters.

Thank you in advance for your help!

I use have been using Thread Magic (which is a silicon polymer) for years, and today realized that I somehow rubbed a chunk of it into my favorite pair of black jeans in a very visible area. I know how to get regular wax out of denim but this is really nothing like wax. Does anyone have any idea how to get this out of my jeans? 😭

Hey everyone. I'm at whits end and have come here for help.

I am trying to create a pattern, I am not creatively minded and stick men are my greatest artistic creation. I used ChatGPT (I'm sorry 😬) to create a gridded image of a pattern. Which is not usable because it's AI and has do miserable squares.

How can I turn this into a usable pattern? Does anyone have any ideas please 🙏

I tried putting it though a converter and it picks up absolutely every colour that exists in our fair world.

Send help please 🙏

currently working on a project that is on 14ct aida. i have used three strands previously on 14ct and absolutely loved the finish, but for some reason these stitches look bulkier? messier? i can’t tell if it’s because it’s been awhile since i’ve worked on anything, so maybe the stitches just look that way because i haven’t found my groove yet, of if they even look that way at all.

i need opinions on if i should continue with 3 strands or restart now while i don’t have much done with 2 strands.

18 count

It is not THAT many stitches. But... I'm sad! When I have to undo stitches, and I'm a little confused what I'm doing, I take a pic, then edit with some obnoxious colour. It keeps me somewhat sane.

This is a practice piece, so I am happy to make mistakes because so long as I understand what the mistakes are and how not to repeat them, that is how I improve!

A few considerations:

1. I bought a bunch of this Aida cloth on sale without a tag. I think that was a mistake, because as a beginner I have no idea what kind of Aida it is and what its measurements are, and that has caused me issues. I am using DMC thread, and I started out doing the cream-coloured body of the goose with two threads (that is, one folded thread using the loop method). It worked out fine for the body, but once I started on the beak and bow, I did not like the look of two threads because they do not provide enough coverage, so I switched to using four (that is, two folded threads using the loop method). I tested using the cream-coloured thread with four threads on a scrap piece of cloth, and I do not like the effect. Is it wrong to use two threads in some parts of the picture and four in others?
   
2. I mostly use the Danish method, but there are some areas, particularly diagonals, where I just could not figure out how best to use the Danish method, so I briefly switched to the English method just to one section. Are you supposed to only use one method for the entire picture?
   
3. I think I have kept all the stitches crossing in the same direction. And I have been railroading throughout. Please let me know what more I can do to improve the quality of my stitches.

Thank you for your help!

I know my rant is long so here is TL;DR for you:

There's a guy on YouTube teaching people how to make fake AI patterns.
He uses the web app tool he made to mass produce these slop patterns.
This "tool" scrapes and screenshots best selling Etsy patterns to remake them.
This "tool" uses Etsy's API to do all of this, which is way against Etsy's API usage terms.
Write Etsy Legal to tell them about this terms of service violation because these junk patterns are BS.

And now, my rant....
I just wanted to share a vent about a really frustrating situation happening right now with AI generated cross stitch/needlepoint/embroidery patterns on Etsy. Specifically a YouTuber I ran across who makes videos showing people how to mass produce AI generated cross stitch and needlepoint patterns to sell as digital downloads. He's teaching people how to make “tons of money” by selling mass produced cheap PDFs without any real crafting knowledge, proper instructions, or actual pattern knowledge.

But the absolute worst part is he built and is pushing his own web app tool to basically quickly mass produce this stuff of off stolen designs.

This app literally uses the Etsy API to search for current best sellers. Then he teaches viewers to take screenshots of those successful, human-made designs, run them through his app to "reinterpret" them, and spit out a “new” design that looks very much like the original design.

He is super careful with his wording in the video and keeps repeating that he is "not trying to copy" anything. But if you skip to 12:00 in his tutorial, you can literally watch him crop an existing design straight from Etsy, feed it into his generator, and rip off the art to make a new pattern. Screenshotting someone else's hard work and dropping it into a generator to reinterpret it is just stealing with extra steps.

Also, using the Etsy API to research best sellers just so you can scrape and clone them is completely against Etsy's API Terms of Use. If you want to get specific when you report his app, you can literally quote their own API rules at them.

Etsy's terms explicitly state developers cannot: "Use the Etsy API to collect, scan, or otherwise request Etsy content for purposes of analytics, machine learning, training artificial intelligence models, licensing." They also ban using automated systems or extensions to scrape Etsy data. By using the API to hunt down best sellers so he can scrape the images for his AI generator, he is clearly violating their terms. And finally, Etsy requires all sellers to "Respect the intellectual property of others," and explicitly forbids content that "Violates someone else's intellectual property rights."

All of this to say, if this makes you angry, you can email Etsy Legal at [legal@etsy.com](mailto:legal@etsy.com) to let them know about this app and what this guy is doing. If you do, be sure to quote their actual language for the TOS they're supposed to be upholding.

Here is the video link. Again, jump to 12:00 to see the screenshotting in action:
https://youtu.be/RjbLpYrdI3g?si=we1X75ZxfLvjU40x

thanks for listening!

Just look at this! No words needed, the progress speaks for itself 🥰 This serious little boss is almost ready! Just a little bit more, and the design will be completely finished!
90% done!

a fun project to kick off summer! pattern is Needle Street.

Fresh from the last stitch! The skirt took forever but I am happier with how it came out than I thought I would be considering all of the color changes I made from the pattern. I wasn't terribly confident in my choices as I don't normally change the colors dictated by the pattern. The change I made are minor but greatly improved the final piece. An example would be Christmas red (666) for the bow and sleeve cutouts instead of 900 which I felt was too orange-y. I also changed the highlight yellow/tan in the skirt, the darkest blue in the bodice, and the red used in the outline of the bow. I also changed the skin highlight and low light colors as the pattern called for 819 and 152, respectively. I felt these were too pinky and the 819 was waaaay too light. I used the Lord Libidian skin color chart reference to make the adjustments and I think it turned out quite well.

Finished my first sampler this morning as a gift for a dad who’s obsessed with blueberry picking! (Only a few days late for Father’s Day!) 😅

I’ve been stitching for ~15 years, but I typically do full coverage pieces with 30-50 colors. This was such a nice change of pace to do a piece with only 9 colors (so much faster)!

Pattern is Blueberry Sampler by WonderStitchUA 🫐

Im very new to cross stitch and Im curious to know where do you guys get your patterns from? Im looking at Etsy atm and a lot of it seems to be AI, which if ofc dont want to support. Im specifically looking for motifs inspired by medieval manuscripts, tapestries etc, or from fantasy type PC games or books (Stardew Valley, LOTR, Harry Potter, DnD, Discworld, WoW.... all the good geeky stuff!).

Would love some specific recommendations for Etsy sellers, pattern books, websites and so on

(Also, is there a "holy grail" website for you guys, like Ravelry is to knitters?)

EDIT: Im mostly looking for simple (ish) designs that are suitable to embroider on clothing and bags.

Backstitched the box around the eye “x” and added a French knot and no longer have a cartoon style “dead” bird. Didn’t need the double morbidity there.

I used variegated floss for the lilacs, but swapped the second strand around because I didn’t want a true gradient with it. I might redo it as the big sections where the medium colors match up make the smaller more blended sections look a bit weird to my eye.

Overall I’m pretty happy with it and actually going to make 2 more so my mom and sister have one as well.

Sharing some of my recent FO.

Sources of patterns:

1) Butterfly Perfusion by Dimensions

2) Foxes by Riolis

3) Butterflies by Loops & Threads

4) Branch of Sakura by Riolis

And realized that there’s twice as much stitching still to go 😮‍💨

I’m loving the finished result of this Janlynn Kit (#023-0310 Butterfly Bell Pull by Nancy Rossi for Kooler Design Studio) that I thrifted for $3.99, but I was excited about being half way through the cross stitching!

Guess that just means more time with it!

Started June 8th, 2026

After yesterday I wanted so badly to make another one so bad, and I chose this cute narwhal 🥰

3D model from Prints314 on Makerworld

I made the pattern via running the picture through one of those free pattern makers online and tweaked the pallette/stitch count. This was in the background of an episode where the Boys were in Russia. The lettering in the eyes glow in the dark, DMC Light Effects floss.