Instant Stitch 2.0

Design custom cross-stitch patterns from your own images!



From borders to backstitch, your creative needlework just got easier with Instant Stitch software on CD-ROM. Brimming with updated features and advanced customizing options, Instant Stitch comprises three powerful applications in one pattering system. PM Stitch Creator 3.0 imports your favorite photos or original drawings to the program, ready to tailor your template with virtual needles, text effects, color, and major-brand compatibility to create a customized cross-stitch pattern.

Reticent about made-to-measure? Then go off-the-rack with the PM Stitch Viewer, enabling you to access over 1,000 existing templates, from animals to the zodiac, included in the PM Stitch Project Collection. Custom patterns from your images to ours: the feature-packed, user-friendly Instant Stitch software suite may be the most useful stitching tool since the invention of the needle!




The PM Stitch program takes you from start to finish in 4 easy steps:

Choose an Image
Import a photo from your digital camera or scanner, or use the PM Stitch Viewer to locate a favorite in the PM Stitch Project Collection. Then, let PM Stitch Creator 3.0 automatically convert it to cross-stitch.

Select Settings
Choose the size of your stitch work, floss type, and number of thread colors you wish to use.

Personalize Your Work
Use the text tool, add patterns, change colors, rework your image with virtual needles, and more.

View & Print
Display your completed pattern as color blocks, symbols, or stitches. Print your finished stitch pattern and chart with a color key/materials list. Now you're ready to stitch!

• Multiple stitch types:  X stitch, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, French knot and backstitch
• Support for all recent major brand color charts, including:  DMC, Madeira, J&P Coates, Anchor
• Instructional Wizards and Workflow guides
• Built-in image editing
• Drawing tools, virtual needles and more
• Multiple Undo and Redo
• Printable materials lists
• Ability to add text with type fonts or stitched letters

Create patterns from the pre-loaded array of 1,000+ images. Use the PM Stitch Viewer application to navigate and edit any of the 1,036 cross-stitch templates loaded into the PM Stitch Project Collection. From flags to flowers; cars and clip art to coats of arms, these comprehensive programs offer a treasury of varied images to get your project started.

Image topics include:

• Alphabet samplers
• Animals
• Family coats of arms
• Seasonal scenes
• Signs of the zodiac
• Whimsical clip art and icons

• Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP
• Pentium processor recommended
• 32 MB of RAM
• 45 MB of Hard Drive space
• CD-ROM drive
• Printer (optional)
• Scanner or digital camera (optional)