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: build, colour and read your pattern
Learn the amigurumi editor: select components, shape custom pieces, colour rounds, set measured gauge and read your generated crochet pattern.
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 create custom amigurumi shapes in 3D
Create custom amigurumi components with shaping sections, editable outlines and curved recipes, then read the generated crochet instructions.
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
Colour whole amigurumi pieces or exact rounds and scarf rows, preview stripes in 3D and check the colour changes in your crochet pattern.
How to set amigurumi gauge and check finished size
Enter measured stitches and rounds per 10 cm, understand how gauge affects custom and ready-made components, and check a crochet sample.
Canvas & Pattern Work
Selections, canvas settings, view modes, and tracking your stitching.
Selections, Copy and Paste
Select part of your pattern to copy, repeat, move, or delete it — the fastest way to build borders, mirror motifs, 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 complete them, track backstitch and parked threads, follow one color at a time, and see when you will finish.
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.
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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