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.

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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


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