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Turn any photo into a stitchable embroidery chart
Upload a photo, pick your favourite yarn brand, and get a print-ready, numbered chart within minutes, complete with a photorealistic preview, a full colour list, and the exact amount of yarn you'll need.
What gooblen.ro does
It doesn't just convert pixels to cross-stitches: it matches every colour in your photo against real, commercially available thread, using a palette-selection algorithm built specifically for this purpose.
- Support for 52 real-world thread brands: DMC, Anchor, Madeira and more
- A custom palette-selection algorithm that greedily picks the set of threads minimizing perceived colour difference
- Automatic detection of the optimal colour count for each image
- Every pixel is matched to its nearest thread using the CIEDE2000 perceptual colour distance
- Black-and-white and colour charts, generated as print-ready PDFs
- A photorealistic simulation of the finished piece, based on your own photo
- Thread-quantity calculations, down to the skein
- Large designs automatically tiled across multiple sheets, with an assembly map included
- A self-serve generator: upload a photo, pick a thread brand, get your own chart
- Completely free, built out of love for cross-stitch rather than to sell anything
A few examples
Every chart below was generated with this exact system, starting from a real photograph. None of them are mockups.
