Program of Choice

[rosey175]

I was perusing Servotron's excellent Comparison of Cross Stitch Programs as I've been looking into buying one. The freebie version of KG-Chart has served me well these past few years but I want to be able to make a larger pattern at some point as well as have access to a full rainbow of colors. I tend to make patterns just to have something to tell me where to put an X so the colors chosen by the program kinda get ignored.

So, what is everyone's Program of Choice and why?

[rockinwithrammstein]

I too am in the market to upgrade from KG-Chart, so...watching

[Kareesh]

I normally use PC Stitch and I quite like it. My husband bought it for my birthday last year. I had to get use to it after using the freebie KG, but it's nice.

[rosey175]

I normally use PC Stitch and I quite like it. My husband bought it for my birthday last year. I had to get use to it after using the freebie KG, but it's nice.

Anything about KG that you miss?

[Kareesh]

One of the minor things was having the ability to see the center mark. They have red arrows showing it in PC Stitch, but I liked it being more visible as in KG Chart. Just a minor thing, really. I don't think there's too much that I really miss, they're pretty similar. Mainly it's just getting use to the different interface.

[rockinwithrammstein]

Does PC stitch have it's own format, like how kg-chart is .sth? Or does it automatically save as PDF?

[Kareesh]

It does have its own format. It's .PAT, I believe. I use CutePDF to put them into PDF if I need them in that format for sharing purposes.

[Marilya]

I use PCStitch too - as other people have said it takes a bit of getting used to after KG, but it's nice as long as you don't need to rely on the colours it gives you...

[Eliste]

I used to use MacStitch. Its PC Stitch for Macs.

But these days I actually prefer a little thing called Spriter that one of our own, ScienceDad, created.

[RMDC]

Once I switched from KG to PC Stitch, I never looked back. I haven't tried any other programs, but PC Stitch has all the functionality I want.