NeedlePoint Designer Manual

Minimum requirements for running Stitch A Lot Studio on Windows, macOS, and iPad.

Step-by-step instructions for installing Stitch A Lot Studio on each platform.

How the 7-day trial works, how to purchase a license, and how to activate Stitch A Lot Studio on up to 3 devices.

A quick-start walkthrough: create a canvas, pick colors, draw stitches, and save your first design.

Understand mesh count — how it affects stitch size, detail level, and which count to choose for your project.

Guided tour of the toolbar, canvas, color palette, layers panel, and status bar.

Zoom, pan, and scroll using mouse, trackpad, or touch gestures.

Full reference table of shortcuts for tools, editing, and navigation.

Configure auto-save, undo history, measurement system, display options, and working directory.

Choose canvas size and mesh count (7–24 per inch) to match your needlepoint fabric.

Change canvas dimensions after starting, using anchor positioning to control where stitches stay.

Place stitches one at a time or in continuous strokes, and erase mistakes.

Flood-fill connected areas or swap one color for another across your design.

Draw straight lines, connected point-to-point lines, rectangles, and ellipses.

Select areas of your design to move, copy, flip, rotate, or crop.

Reverse mistakes or step forward through your editing history (configurable 10–200 steps).

Full-cell square stitches and circle stitches with 9 placement positions.

Diagonal triangles, rectangular halves, and quarter-cell fills for angled designs.

Edge border stitches and diagonal cross lines for outlines and decorative effects.

Add, remove, and select colors for drawing. Each color maps to a real thread code.

Browse DMC, Anchor, and Kreinik thread libraries to find the perfect color.

Find the closest thread match for any color using hex, RGB, or LAB values and 5 matching algorithms.

Layers let you separate parts of your design onto different levels, like stacking transparent sheets.

Create, rename, reorder, show/hide, lock, merge, and delete layers.

Turn photos or illustrations into stitch patterns with automatic color reduction and thread matching.

Place a semi-transparent reference image behind your canvas as a guide.

Place lettering using the font browser with options for size, weight, and orientation.

Quickly add pre-built circles, squares, eggs, and clovers to your design.

Assign unique symbols to colors for printable black-and-white pattern charts.

See a realistic preview of your finished needlepoint with a 3D tent stitch effect.

Save designs as .stitchalot files, with auto-save and cross-platform file management.

Export professional PDFs with charts, thread lists, stitch counts, and symbol modes.

Mark completed stitches, track time per session, and view per-color progress statistics.

Custom title bar, installer, file locations, and auto-updater.

Native menu bar, direct download vs. App Store, and Gatekeeper prompts.

Touch gestures, Apple Pencil, iOS file picker, iCloud Drive, and sharing.