StitchCraft

I built StitchCraft after trying to turn a photo of my dog into a cross stitch pattern — every tool I tried handed back a muddy chart full of single-stitch confetti. So we built a proper pipeline: perceptual CIELAB color matching against real DMC floss, plus a filter that removes isolated stitches before they reach your hoop. It's completely free, no sign-up, and the generation engine is open source on GitHub. I'd love feedback on pattern quality — upload a photo and tell me how the chart turns out!

Can I cap the number of DMC colors in a pattern, and then run the confetti filter without losing cells I have manually recolored? That would help keep a photo project within a manageable thread budget.

i love simple tools with clear use-cases!

The symbol-chart PDF and DMC shopping list make the output more practical than a simple pixel preview. Does the PDF include a print-scale check and overlapping rows between pages? Those details would help someone keep their place when stitching a larger pattern from several sheets.

Matching against real DMC floss in CIELAB makes a lot more sense than plain RGB quantization, and the confetti filter is a smart touch. Could you add an option to cap the number of distinct colors (say 12 or 20) so beginners don't end up buying 40 skeins for one pattern?

Matching to the DMC palette and removing single-stitch confetti makes the output much more practical than a basic pixel conversion. If someone manually recolors a few cells, can they run the confetti filter again without overwriting those edits?