Free Pixel Art Pattern Maker for Crochet & Knitting
Pixlaine is a free, browser-based pixel art editor for tapestry crochet, intarsia and pixel knitting. Draw your design on a grid, set your gauge for realistic proportions, generate a row-by-row chart, and track your progress stitch by stitch. Print your pattern as a PDF, and install Pixlaine as an app that works offline. No sign-up.
Amigurumi rounds
Write each round the way a pattern is written. Colour the text to say which yarn it is worked in.
This picture does not look like a mosaic pattern.
New Project
or start with a blank grid:
or start with a blank grid:
A picture holds at most two million stitches: make one side smaller.
This can be found on your yarn band, but making your own gauge is better.
Start from a project
Mosaic crochet is two colours for now: the two main colours of the project you choose are kept, and every other colour becomes the nearer of the two.
Pattern Gallery
Welcome to the gallery of patterns shared by the Pixlaine community.
Warning
Some pixels are not colored.
A lot of colours detected
This picture uses a lot of similar colours that might not be distinguishable with bare eyes. You can check if an area is composed of one colour using the Fill tool.
Resize / Pixelise
Change the size of your project and reduce your picture to fewer colours. The preview shows the result before you apply anything.
Drag the white squares on the frame so only the part you want to keep stays inside it, or drag inside the frame to move it. On a big picture, zoom in with the wheel or two fingers.
Size
Reducing the count removes the outermost rings.
Colours
Draw something on the canvas first to use the colour tools.
Symmetry
Choose an axis, then draw: every stitch appears on the other side of it as you go. Choosing here never changes the picture you have already drawn.
Axis
A diagonal axis needs a square grid: this one is not square.
Every stitch you draw appears on the other side of the axis as you go. Stitches already on the picture are left as they are.
Create from a picture
Crop the picture, choose the stitches and colours, and Pixlaine rebuilds it as a stitchable grid. Scaled-up pixel art is recognised automatically.
Drag the corners so only the picture you want stays inside the frame.
A picture holds at most two million stitches: make one side smaller.
Rebuilding can slightly change the picture: check the preview before you crochet. Single stitches are easy to fix with the pencil afterwards.
Your gauge
A crochet stitch is not a square: it is usually wider than it is tall. Worked stitch for stitch, a picture comes out squashed. Give Pixlaine your gauge and the preview shows the piece the shape it will really be.
Measure a swatch, or copy the gauge printed on your yarn band.
Share your picture
Download your picture ready to post: pick a size, show the grid with numbered rows, and add a colour key.
Picture
Title, background and colour key
Pattern Ownership
Weaving draws your logo into the picture by slightly shifting the colours under it, so a pattern copied from this picture keeps your mark. Your logo stays on this device.
Also weaves an invisible signature into the colours. If someone tries to reopen this picture in Pixlaine to trace or edit it, Pixlaine recognises the mark and refuses to open it, even after they redraw over the logo, and usually after a screenshot too. Your own saved projects always open normally.
Get in touch
Have an idea, a bug to report, or a question? Reach out any of these ways.
How do I…?
Pick a question and Pixlaine shows you where to click, step by step.