Old English is perfect for monogramming towels, clothes, scarves, and other household items. You need 13 stitches tall per each letter to use this cross stitch alphabet pattern. Fancy Alphabet įancy alphabet sits between Old English and plain san serif font types. You can see an example in Bird Cross Stitch. This cross stitch alphabet is all about symbolizing your love by adding a bird figure to each letter of your bird lover’s name. Both uppercase and lowercase letters are 20 stitches tall each. It’s just perfect for single initial affixed at the center of your work or at the corner to give finishing.

The first one is a handy-dandy stitch calculator that tells you precisely what size to cut your fabric, taking into consideration the threads per inch (or centimeter – you can calculate it either way), the number of threads you are stitching over, the number of vertical and horizontal threads in the design, and the number of inches extra you want around the finished embroidery.Corsiva alphabet gets the look of Monotype Corsiva font type. Up in the right-hand corner of the page, you’ll see three icons. What I really like about the Stitchpoint page is their little fabric calculator. The image prints straight to your printer. After selecting the font, you use the “keyboard” on the screen to select your text, then hit print. There are six fonts to choose from, four cross stitch and two backstitch. The second resource is similar: Stitchpoint offers another text-charting program, but the format is different.

There’s also a handy stitch calculator available on the same page. I’m thinking this tool would be Particularly Handy for card-making and embroidery on perforated paper! The first resource is ’s “Fontform,” where you can chart your own text in 21 different fonts, and print the chart from the generated PDF.Īll you have to do is select your font, the width of the piece in stitches, and the color, then type in your text, check off whether you want it centered or not, and then preview and get the chart. Here are two terrific resources online for charting text for counted thread techniques (cross stitch, back stitch, blackwork, canvas work, etc.) and for calculating fabric needs when setting up a new project.

College font cross stitch graph