Cross stitch calculator
Finished size, fabric with margins and how many skeins of thread. Everything is worked out on this page; nothing is sent anywhere.
- Finished size
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- Fabric with margins
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- Stitches per skein, approx.
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- Skeins of this colour
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How it works
- Size: stitches / count = inches; inches × 2.54 = centimetres. Evenweave stitched over two counts as half its thread count. More in "How to work out the size".
- Fabric: finished size + 2 × margin.
- A skein of DMC or Anchor stranded cotton is 8 m of 6 strands (DMC, Anchor).
- Usage: on 14-count with 2 strands we count 1,500 stitches per skein. Stitchers report 1,500–1,800 (Lord Libidan, Cross Stitch Boutique); we take the lower end — better an extra skein than running out halfway.
- On other fabric or with another number of strands, thread per stitch scales with the square size and the strands: stitches per skein = 1,500 × count / 14 × 2 / strands.
- Usage also depends on how you carry the thread on the back, so this is an estimate, not an exact figure.