Overview
Demos
Quick Gallery
Stitch Painter Standard Features
Additional Gold Features
Plug-In Modules to Stitch Painter
Stitch Painter Cheat Sheets
Stitch Painter Elements Clip Art Collections

Overview
There are many fine paint programs out there, but in our world of textile and craft design, we soon found that no single program could do everything Cochenille Design Studio needed it to do. So we did something about it! We developed Stitch Painter. This fabulous design tool is specifically geared to the needs of textile and craft designers of all sorts and we made it so user-friendly, you scarcely need a manual. Stitch Painter will open endless doors to your creativity, tailoring itself to any design goal that uses a grid, from weaving to needlepoint and cross-stitch to knits.

Stitch Painter operates in a color grid world and everything is counted in stitches and rows. The grid may be setup as square or rectangular, and thus you can use the software for multiple textile arts. Various Plug-in modules customize Stitch Painter further for certain end uses such as stitchery, beading or intelligently importing and color reducing graphic images.
You may print directly from Stitch Painter or export in standard formats, thus allowing you to take imagery to publishing packages or other programs.

Stitch Painter currently offers a Standard and a Gold version for Windows and MacIntosh computers. If you want to use any of Stitch Painter's Plug-In's, you will need the Gold version. People who need Symbols will also need the Gold version. See the descriptions below for further details.

Demos
Download the demos and explore the capabilities. Please read the included Read-me file which will help you understand how much of the program is available to you. The current demo does not include any of the Plug-In module features.
Stitch Painter 2.3 Demo, Windows sp2demo.zip
Stitch Painter 2.0 Demo, Mac sp2demo.sea or spdemo.sea.hqx OS9
Stitch Painter 2.3 Demo, Mac spdemo.sea.hqx OS10.3 or greater

Quick Gallery
Click on the files below to see a sample file
Knit Fairisle Sample (143k)
Knit Symbol Sample (44k)
Crochet Sample (11k)
Cross Stitch Sample (11k)
Beading Sample (22k)
Long Stitch Sample (11k)
Quilt Sample (198k)
Weaving Sample (176k)

 

Stitch Painter Feature List

Stitch Painter Standard Features:

  • A color palette for mixing and matching colors.
  • A working palette of 250 colors in any given document pulling from the full color range of your computer.
  • The creation of stitches with a pen, line or shape tools or a brush/stamp.
  • The ability to flip, rotate, or even resize your motifs.
  • The ability to design in repeat.
  • Stencils to protect certain textures/colors as you draw.
  • Grids which can be re-proportioned, scaled down, and/or taken to other applications via the clipboard or export function.
  • Grid numbering on your printout.
  • Tools that measure in stitches and rows as you draw.
  • The ability to count the number of stitches of each color on the screen.
  • The ability to change grid colors or use a texture for the grid.
  • Major and minor grids allowing demarcations for easy reading of graphs.
  • Export for Designaknit, S90 and Creation6.
  • Not Mac OS X compatible - only Gold version below.

#SW-0100-S-I $ 85.00 Standard version for Windows with PDF Manual
#SW-0100-S-M $ 85.00 Standard version for Macintosh with PDF Manual

Additional Gold Features:

  • A texture palette which allows you to edit and create your own textures which may be black/white or 2-colored. This is useful for simulating marled yarns, calico fabrics, etc.
  • A symbol palette which allows you to create your own symbols, plus work with a combination of symbols, colors and textures. Symbols may be black/white or colored.
  • The ability to have any combination of up to 250 colors, symbols and textures onthe screen at once.
  • A transparent feature that allows selected Colors/Textures to become transparent when you create a brush - useful for coordinate fabrics.
  • The ability to design in repeat in selected areas of the screen.
  • The ability to turn the grid off in given areas, allowing you to see the stair stepping of stitches (for shaping) or to create stitch keys.
  • Colors/symbols/textures may copied or swapped in palette and on screen.
  • The ability to 'regrid' a design, moving from one proportion grid to another. This is wonderful for translating cross stitch patterns to knitting (or vice versa) or for translating from one knit gauge to the other.
  • Mac OS X compatible.

#SW-0100-G-I $ 165.00 Gold version for Windows with PDF Manual
#SW-0100-G-M $ 165.00 Gold version for Macintosh with PDF Manual

UpGrades(serial #'s required):

SW-0101GU2-W SP upgrade from version 1 to 2.2 Win XP CD $ 45
SW-0101GU2-M SP upgrade from version 1 to 2.3 Mac OS X CD $45

SW-0105GU-W SP upgrade from version 2 to 2.2 Win XP CD $15
SW-0105GU-M SP upgrade from version 2 to 2.3 Mac OS X CD $25

SW-0100SU2 $ 90.00 Upgrade from Standard to Gold
Note: You may upgrade from 2.0 Standard to 2.0 Gold for $90.00. You may upgrade from 1.0 Standard to 2.0 Gold for $120.00.

In general:

  • Palette windows may be resized and colors may be moved around.
  • All colors/symbols/textures may copied or swapped in each palette and on screen.
  • Included with your purchase are free clipart files of motifs and patterns from Designers Around the World.

Plug-In Modules to Stitch Painter (Gold version only)

What is the Stitch Painter philosophy?
Cochenille is pleased to announce that Stitch Painter will be growing in a modular way. Any feature that we add to the program that suits more than one craft, will be brought into the general program. Any feature that is craft specific will be brought into an add-on module that users may opt to own. Why have we chosen this approach?

  • To allow the program to meet specific crafters needs.
  • To keep the menu structure simple.
  • To keep costs down.

Stitchery Module
 This module will allow users to shift the grid in order to view diagonal stitches (for needlepoint and plastic canvas), and to access DMC colors references.
Windows and Mac, for Gold version only
#SW-0102 $25.00 Stitchery

Beading Module
This module adds the following features:
* Design with Peyote and Comanche grids which may be adjusted to any proportion.
* Print out Color Counts per row, e.g. Row 1: 7 black, 3 green, 2 black, etc.
* Create custom color sets (name colors used in a document and save custom palettes).
* Follow your beading placement 'on screen' as you work, for Gold version only
Note: Loom Bead design may also be done with the Stitch Painter program operating in its regular mode.
#SW-0103 $30.00 Beading

Full Color Import Module
Now you can take your full colored scanned images and import them into Stitch Painter. Choose the number of colors you are willing to work with in your project, and the number of stitches and rows, and let Stitch Painter's Plug-In do the rest. It is truly amazing. There are 10 to 12 color reduction modes, which will accomodate all types of color images (photos, clip art, etc). for Gold version only
SW-0104 $49.00 Full Color Import

Stitch Painter Cheat Sheets
By popular request, we released two sets of Stitch Painter Cheat Sheets. Theses are laminated 5.5 x 8.5 inch cards with helpful information regarding Stitch Painter (how to use, tips, shortcuts, how-to's) etc. Regular Price for the card set is $8 for Set 1, $10 for set 2, or both for $15.00.

#DA-0200 $8.00 How To's
#DA-0201 $10.00 Stitch Painter Operations
#DA-0202 $15.00 Combo

Set 1: Stitch Painter Basics

  • Stitch Painter Toolbox
  • Stitch Painter Menus
  • Stitch Painter Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Stitch Painter Palette Operations

Set 2: Stitch Painter How-To's

  • Customizing Palettes
  • Repeat Design, Strips and Borders
  • Importing from External Sources
  • Exporting
  • Let me Count the Ways, multiple ways to do certain tasks

 

Stitch Painter Elements Clip Art Collections
These sets of clip art are designed specifically for Stitch Painter. Each set contains .stc and .sbr files which will load directly into Stitch Painter.
Currently, there are four sets:
#AD-0900 $24.00 Floral
#AD-0901 $24.00 Holiday
#AD-0902 $24.00 Snowflakes and Stars
#AD-0903 $24.00 Quilt Blocks

Check out the Elements collections in more detail.