How I Design Cross Stitch Patterns - 2024 Update!

I'm no expert cross stitch pattern designer, but I have dabbled for many years. So here's the long awaited update to my original cross stitch pattern design video, may it be of some vague use to someone, somewhere! Warning: Slight Eurovision overtones. 00:00 Intro 00:50 Inspiration & theme 02:35 Designing in Photoshop 04:33 Colour choice 06:08 Sample stitching 07:30 Creating the pattern - PS 09:16 Creating the pattern - WinStitch 12:15 Exporting PDFs from WinStitch 12:46 Final tweaks 13:43 Publishing 14:25 Closing thoughts -------------- If you enjoy my videos, please consider supporting the channel or checking out my patterns over at https://ko-fi.com/thegiddystitcher -------------- You can also find me at https://linksta.cc/@thegiddystitcher And join our Discord community full of socially awkward crafters at https://discord.gg/MhMFUPEmZ8