Cross Stitch Grid Paper

About cross stitch grid paper

Cross stitch charts count in stitches, not measurements, so what matters is that the grid is fine and that every tenth line is bold. That decade grouping is what lets you count a position quickly instead of tracking one square at a time.

What people use it for

• Designing cross stitch and needlepoint charts
• Blackwork and blackwork filling patterns
• Perler bead and pixel art layouts
• Knitting colourwork charts

Printing it at true size

The single most common problem with printed graph paper is scale. Browsers and PDF readers shrink a page by default so it clears the printer’s unprintable margin, which turns a 2.5 mm (10 to 25 mm) grid into something slightly smaller. Set the print scale to 100% — sometimes labelled “Actual size” — and switch off “Fit to page” or “Shrink oversized pages”.

Print one sheet, measure it, and only then print the rest. If you do not have a ruler handy, the calibrated on-screen ruler measures in millimetres and inches, and the unit converter handles the arithmetic if you need to move between the two.

Other grid sizes

Every variant below is the same generator with a different preset — pick whichever spacing suits the job, or open the full graph paper generator and set your own.