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Cross stitch and embroidery

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Full disclosure before I say anything else, I’m asking this out of personal curiosity and a desire to help friends out but also because I plan on making a video about it so yes it’s kind of a research question too.

Ok. So personally I use Pattern Keeper, and it’s been great. But I find myself wondering what other apps have popped up in the couple of years since I first discovered PK. The other day someone tagged me in a Mastodon question about alternatives, and then a similar convo coincidentally broke out on Discord too, so clearly other people are asking the same question.

Now, I know about a few apps already. Markup R-XP has a devoted following. CrossStitchSaga I apparently need to try because I hear it supports backstitch. And resident app developer @ClickStitch@sh.itjust.works posts here regularly with updates on their new contender.

But I thought I’d cast a wider net and see what everyone else is using.

Do you use one of the ones I listed? Do you use another specialised cross stitch app? Do you use something that was originally designed for a totally different purpose but turns out to work great for stitching? Or do you prefer to keep things analog and mark off printed patterns with a pen?

Would love to hear what you like and dislike about your current solution, and I’m hoping to get to test a load of them out and do a proper comparison of them all.

I promise to do a writeup of the conclusions here too so it’s not just stuck in video form!

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[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Respect! I can do it your way for relatively small patterns but it would drive me mad with full coverage. I remember working on Alpine by Satsuma Street like that, and ending up with one missed stitch in the middle of a mountain, and omg I could not convince myself to go in and fix it for the sake of one stitch! Took forever to get my brain to agree to do it 😅

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I admit, I cheat a bit—if I can fill in a stitch I missed with one of the colours I'm working now rather than the intended one, and still have the result make visual sense, I go right ahead and do that. Just not enough of a perfectionist, I guess. 😅

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Absolutely with you on that one! Sadly Alpine was very block colours, clean lines so it would've been obvious. But nothing wrong with a bit of bodging where appropriate 😀