Bursting with a wealth of information, including all the advanced tools, editing features and functions neccesary to create the very highest quality stitch patterns. Plus, hints, tips and inspiring designsfrom Britain's best-loved stitcher - Jane Greenoff, this program is what no stitcher should be without.

Create perfect stitching charts in the way that suits you best without the mess or fuss of using graph paper. Design by hand by placing colour blocks or symbols on the grid to represent your stitches, or utilise the designs from the built-in library of over 4,800 motifs, or convert your own photographs, favourite paintings, clip-art images or drawings into cross stitch designs. Scan your chosen image or directly input it into your PC from digital camera, then create the look you want by using the inport features such as brightness adjust, remove background colour, rotate, crop and despeckle. Finally import your design on to the master sheet and convert it into a beautiful stitch chart that can be printed out as an easy to read pattern.

Main Features:

• Save £££'s by converting your own photographs, favourite paintings, clip-art images or drawings into cross stitch designs.
• Save over £70 by utilising the shade charts from 12 leading manufacturers that appear on screen.
• A design area of up to 1000 x 1000 stitches and a palette of 200 colours.
• Over 70 step-by-step video tutorials to show you how to work exciting new stitches - such as Holbein and velvet stitch, add texture, combine threads, use charms and buttons, pluss much, much more.
• Over 4,800 of Jane's specially selected charted motifs providing inspiration for great gift ideas and timeless designs for your home.
• Over 100 charted greeting cards and sampler patterns for you to personalise - ideal for special occations such as birthdays, a new baby, new home, weddings or anniversaries.
• View your design as stitches, colour blocks or symbols, or as it will appear on your chosen fabric - Aida, Linen, Tapestry, Canvas or Plastic Canvas.
• Automatically calculate the amount of thread needed to complete your design, which can be viewed on screen or printed out as a materials list.
• 6 main stitch types including vertical and horizontal half-stitch, plus special stitches such as Doves Eye, Needleweave and Rice, or why not create your own stitches and save them in the special stitch library for future use.
• 19 brush styles enable you to draw or delete rows or areas of stitches quickly, thus reducing the amount of time spent designing.
• Add pattern notes, chart titles, keys and copyright information directly on your chart.
• Print headers, footers and page numbers on your chart.
• Prevent unauthorised photocopies of valuable designs, by printing selected symbols in red.
• Use the background bitmap template to import a graphic as an underlay for your design, making it useful for tracing sections of a picture to help layout a design.
• Automatic matching of the darkest print symbols to the darkest shade colours, giving superb, easy to follow symbol charts.
• Quickly sort by numerical or brightness order, merge and reduce the number of palette colours used in your chart to create your own custom colour ranges.
• Enhanced exporting features allow you to export charts to many file formats, including .EPS, .JPG, .PNG, .TGA and .TIF.
• £300 worth of money off vouchers.
• Printable help file to help you get the most out of the program.

The definitive guide to Cross Stitch and Tapestry

Create your own stunning designs with images covering every period of English history from Elizabethan times to the present day, with the definitive guide to cross stitch and tapestry. This unique PC CD-ROM enable you to add a touch of originality to your home.

Help is at hand from the Royal School of Needlework, to teach you the correct techniques if you are a beginner, or to build upon your existing knowledge if you are more experienced, turning you creative ideas into a reality. Using all the capabilities of computer multimedia, video and sound to explain techniques, design skills and the history behind the Royal School, this program is perfect for all those who are passionate about their hobby.

• Easy to follow, clearly demonstrated techniques allow you to improve your skills, gain confidence and build upon you existing techniques – ideal for beginners or experienced needleworkers.
• Contains hints and tips from the Royal School of Needlework.
• Learn how to create 22 stitch types with video demonstrations, for cross stitch, canvas work (tapestry) and blockwork, to use in your own designs. Stitch types include full cross stitch, back-stitch, beading and gold thread couching.
• Learn how to choose the correct type of fabric and obtain explanations on the difference types of needles, frames, threads, handling techniques, packing and storage, stitch types and historical methods.
• Features over 1,200 exclusive Royal School of Needlework Motifs – from Elizabethan times to the present day, including explanation of how specific motifs came into fashion and who use the various techniques.
  v Select from over 3,000 manufacturer thread (floss) colours.
• Choose colours from the Anchor, Appleton, DMC, Kreinik, Medeira, Mill Hill (Beads), Offray, Paterna and Rajmahal colour ranges.
• Import your photograph or picture via scanner or digital scanner and covert it into a beautiful stitch chart with the colours matched to you favourite stranded cotton or wool shade range. Then de-speckle your image to enhance your design, adjust the brightness and contrast or flip, crop and rotate the image to create your desired effect.
• Create you own designs with 1 to 256,000 stitches (500x500) with the design area visible at 10 zoom levels and a palette of 100 colours.
• Use up to 100 full, half and back-stitch colours in each chart chosen from thousands of manufacturers shades.
• Features powerful drawing and editing tools that will aid your design process including automatic back-stitch outlining, sampler text drawing and print symbol allocation. Editable symbols and linestyles are also available to create charts exactly how you want them.
• Box, magic wand and freehand selection tools enable you to work on the exact area you require and the design map enables quick navigation of large designs.
• Covert designs from once colour range to another.
• Preview you design as stitches, colour blocks or symbols on-screen or as it will appear on your chosen fabric – Aida, evenweave or tapestry canvas.
• Automatically calculates the amount of thread needed to complete your design, this can be viewed on-screen or printed out as a materials list.
• Print out your chart across multiple pages either in colour or black and white using colour symbols or use page numbering, overlaps and centre marks.
• Import and border wizards take you through step by step stages to show you how to get the design you want.
• Modern and historical blockwork fills are included or why not create your own blockwork fills and add them to the list.
• Convert any TrueType font into stitches.
• Create your own library of stitch types
• Comprehensive on-line help section.