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 — no sign-up, nothing to install.

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New Project

or start with a blank grid:

Circular grid

Rings (1-50) Base sectors per ring (3-24)

Shared Patterns

Bienvenue sur la galerie de patterns partagés par la communauté Pixlaine.

Warning

Some pixels are not colored.

A lot of colours detected

This picture uses a lot of similar colours that might be hard to tell apart with bare eyes. You can reduce them with Resize/Pixelise.

Resize / Pixelise

Change the size of your project and reduce your picture to fewer colours. The preview shows the result before you apply anything.

Generated palette

Size

Grid Width (1-1000) Grid Height (1-1000)

Resize drawing

Rings (1–50)

Reducing the count removes the outermost rings.

Select your yarn

This can be found on your yarn band, but making your own gauge is better.

Swatch Width Height

Count Stitches Rows

Colours

Colours 30

Threshold 50%

Black & white

To swap

Swap with

Draw something on the canvas first to use the colour tools.

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.

Stitches × Rows

Rings Magic circle

Colours All

Threshold 50%

Black & white

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.

Swatch (cm) Width Height

Count Stitches Rows

Share your picture

Download your picture ready to post: pick a size, show the grid with numbered rows, and add a colour key.

Picture

Size

Real stitch proportions (your gauge) Grid lines

Row numbers

Stitch numbers

Title, background and colour key

Title

Background

Colour key

Pattern Ownership

Logo in a corner

Weave the logo into the picture

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.

Invisible protection

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.

Instagram @pix_laine
Ko-fi ko-fi.com/pixlaine
Email pixlaine-support@pixlaine.com

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Your pattern

Turn your picture into an easy-to-follow pattern !

Row 7

Row 8

👆 Try it: tap a stitch box to mark it, then the white box to finish the whole row.

Row completion box: the white box at the end of each rows marks it as done and takes you to the next one. Put your instruction tab at the bottom of the screen to work on your project while watching your favorite show !
Rows interactivity: each color stitch box can be clicked. Use this to mark stitches as done and never lose count !
Title section: choose a title for your pattern, and check your completion progress as you go ! If you add your yarn you can see the yarn you will need for each color.

Your yarn & pixelisation tools

Select your yarn

Swatch Gauge

Width20 Height16 Stitches10 Rows10 Mass8 g

g / stitch: 0.0250

In Resize/Pixelise you can Select your yarn: pick the hook size printed on the ball band, plus the ball's length and weight, to shape the pixels like real stitches and estimate the yarn and balls needed.

Pixelisation Tools

File: use Open picture to turn a photo or image into a pixel grid, and My Projects to save and reopen your work.
Resize/Pixelise: in the File menu, change the project size or reduce your picture to a few yarn colours, with a preview of the result before you apply.

Your account & community

Save & sync across devices

Create a free account with just your email (no password) to back up My Projects to the cloud and open them on any device. Your profile gets a picture and a name.

Shared Patterns

Browse: open Shared Patterns and switch between the Community and Pixlaine tabs, with a Featured strip on top.
Make & save: open a pattern to crochet it, tap Save to keep it in your Saved Patterns, or Add to my projects for your own copy.
Share your own: share a project from My Projects; your saved and shared patterns live in your profile.