
Then simply match these to your coloured pencils or pens, and you can start drawing! A shade card or skeins of your chosen thread colours is useful too, for picking the colours and combinations. You may have heard of, or even tried, the DIY method of creating your own cross stitch pattern using graph paper – all you need are some basic supplies to hand-draw your design with coloured pencils or pens on some gridded 10×10 graph paper. Make your own cross stitch pattern and stitch exactly what you want when you want! You just need a little imagination and anyone can give it a try.
