Join the Designers Club
Everything you need to create your own designs – all in one membership
Try the Blackwork Studio free for 24 hours – one trial per customer
I have been designing Blackwork for a long time now, and have never recommended any of the software I use as none of them, in my eyes, were perfect for blackwork - they were Cross Stitch Software used for Blackwork....and they all had annoying quirks.
So I commissioned "The Blackwork Studio" and I hope you find it as intuitive and easy to design on it as I do.
- Decide on a Colour Palette
- Create a Design & export a rendered image direct from the Studio
- Upload the image into the Frame Studio
What's included
Three tools, made for Modern Blackwork Designers.
Colour Palettes
8 Colour Pallets per month.
Choose from 2 to 8 colours on each image to create the perfect colour theme for your design.
The inspiration for the palettes are taken from real photographs, and matched to DMC thread colours.
Please note that this is not included in the free 24hr trial.
INCLUDED IN FREE TRIALThe Blackwork Studio
Design your own blackwork patterns right in your browser on any device. Build fills and borders on a stitch grid, experiment freely and export your finished designs to PDFs.
I commissioned this software based on everything I would want from the 'perfect Blackwork creation tool'*
*Includes Cross Stitch
INCLUDED IN FREE TRIALFrame Mockup Tool
Upload the exported picture of your stitching or your design and see it in a frame, styled on a choice of backgrounds.
Automatically resizes the Frame to your design!
Download the finished image – perfect for sharing your designs online, uploading to you design listing etc
Become a member
- Full access to the Blackwork Studio
- Full access to the Frame Mockup Tool
- 8 Colour Palettes every month
- Share or Sell the designs you create
- Cancel Anytime
Access is linked to your account – please check out using the email you log in with.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the same as the Peppermint Purple Club?
No – the Designers Club is a separate membership focused on design tools. You can belong to either or both.
What device can this run on?
All of them.
This software runs in your internet browser which means it is suitable for windows desktops/mac desktops, Apple phones, android phones and all tablets.
As long as your device has an internet browser this will work on it.
What functionality does The Blackwork Studio have?
The tools includes the following plus more:
- Can accomodate charts upto 600 x 600 stitches
- Individual stitch placement
- Running, Single, Cross & Fractional Stitches
- Layers (with lock/unlock to protect areas of your designs)
- Option to lock stitches so they cannot be removed until unlocked
- Order the Threads to that specific threads are always shown on top on the design eg. if you have a cross with 1 yellow strand and 1 red you can order red above yellow in the thread list and the red stitches will always lie on top of the yellow on the design
- Saving Fillers to reuse
- Exporting to PDF
- Exporting to OnePage
- Cropping to used area
- Option to have the key under the design on the pdf chart rather than on it's own page
- Option to centre your design
- Symmetry both Horizontal & Vertical
- Stiched View Export with material colour choice
- Selection tools - move/change layers/lock stitches from being amended/delete
- Change design area (If you do this you can then use the centre option to recentre the design)
- Works across all devices (you can backup and save on one, and import on another)
Who can see my Designs?
Only you can see your designs.
They are all held on the device you are working on (they are not saved to anything my end and I cannot see them). You can save all your designs to your desktop/phone and import in again if you need to tweak them (this is also how to transfer the designs between your devices)
Can I share/sell the designs I make?
Yes!
The designs you create in The Blackwork Studio are yours and you can do whatever you like with them
I was a member before – can I rejoin?
Of course. Just log in and choose a membership above – your access will be switched back on as soon as your order completes.
How/When can I cancel my membership
You can cancel at anytime.
On the Designers Club homepage, at the bottom is a link to take you to your membership. (If you are a Peppermint Purple Club member this will also be here so be careful)
Should you cancel your membership will continue until the end of the paid for period*
*I am unable to provide partial refunds should you cancel early. Your membership will run until the end of the period.
