The Workshop
Everything Knytstudio can do, explained in short practical guides. Most people only ever discover half of it — this is the other half.
Getting Started
Create your first pattern and find your way around the editor.
Your First Pattern
Four ways to start a pattern in Knytstudio: from a photo, from a community pattern, from a description, or from a blank canvas.
A Tour of the Editor
Where everything lives in the Knytstudio editor: the tool rail, menus, floating panels, minimap, and the keyboard shortcuts that speed you up.
Creating Patterns
From photos, from ideas, or stitch by stitch — every way to make a pattern.
Photo to Cross Stitch Pattern
Turn any photo into a stitchable chart: crop, choose size and colors, pick your thread brand, and place it on the canvas.
Design Spark: From Idea to Pattern
Describe what you want to stitch in plain words and Knytstudio sketches a stitchable design for you, in real floss colors.
Magic Fill
Select an area of your pattern, describe what should go there, and Knytstudio draws it in place — sized and colored to fit.
Drawing Tools
Draw, erase, lines, shapes, paint bucket, text, and the color picker — the everyday tools for charting stitch by stitch.
Backstitch
Add outlines and fine details over your cross stitch chart with three backstitch modes: line, pen, and erase. Included in every export.
Confetti Cleanup
Remove the scattered single stitches that make charts miserable to stitch — with one click for the whole pattern, or a targeted brush.
Amigurumi designer: tools, written pattern and saving
Find your way around the amigurumi designer: start from an animal, edit it with the tools, read the written pattern, crochet it round by round and save it.
Colors and Threads
489 floss colors with codes from five thread brands, a searchable color browser, per-color stitch counts, and symbol assignment.
How to build your own amigurumi shapes
Make your own amigurumi pieces in 3D: shapes from their size, rounds in crochet notation, sewing, joined legs and sliders, with the pattern written for you.
Tracing Images
Put a reference image behind your grid and draw over it — for hand-charting from a sketch, a photo, or any picture you want to follow.
How to add colour changes and stripes to amigurumi
Paint whole rounds, everything from a round on, or single stitches on your amigurumi in 3D, and check the colour changes in the written crochet pattern.
How to set amigurumi yarn and gauge and check the finished size
Choose the yarn weight in the amigurumi designer, read the finished size in centimetres, measure your gauge and make a toy bigger with the same stitches.
Canvas & Pattern Work
Selections, canvas settings, view modes, and tracking your stitching.
Selections, Copy and Paste
Select an area, or every stitch of one color, to copy, move, recolor, crop, or delete it — the fastest way to build borders and rearrange a design.
Canvas Settings and View Modes
Resize the canvas, style the grid, preview on fabric colors, set knitting gauge, and switch between color, hybrid, and symbol views.
Progress Tracking
Mark stitches as you go, follow one color or one row at a time, track backstitch, parked threads and knitting rows, and carry on from your phone.
Community
Publish your patterns, remix others, and build your profile.
Publishing Your Patterns
Share a pattern with the community: a public page with likes, comments, finished-piece photos, and an optional remix permission.
Discovering and Remixing Patterns
Browse the community gallery, open any remixable pattern in your editor, and make it your own — with credit to the original designer.
Your Profile Page
Your public corner of Knytstudio: username, bio, social links, your published patterns, and the patterns you have liked.
Exporting
Get your pattern out as a printable PDF, an OXS file, or an image.
PDF Export Pro
Print-ready charts in sixteen languages: symbols or color blocks, labeled pages with an overview, a floss key with skeins, backstitch and a tracker QR code.
OXS and Image Export
Export your pattern as an OXS file for other cross stitch software, or as a chart, realistic or hoop and frame mockup image for sharing and printing.
Ready to make something?
The editor is free to use in your browser — no install, no signup needed to start designing.
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