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Pip's Fabric Calculator

Let's find the perfect fabric size for your project!

Pattern size

These numbers are usually on the pattern cover or info sheet (for example "140 × 100 stitches"). Whole numbers, 1 to 2000.

Fabric
Stitch over
Extra fabric (on each side)

Per side: this much is added on the left, right, top and bottom. These are starting points, not guarantees; check what your framer or finish needs.

Results

Fabric to cut

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This size includes extra fabric around your stitching, so you'll have room to finish your project.

Your finished design

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Stitched area only, without extra fabric.

See other fabric sizes

Finished design size (no extra fabric) for your pattern on common counts. Aida is over one; evenweave is over two, so 28-count evenweave gives the same size as 14-count Aida.

Pip's tips

Where are the stitch counts? Look on the pattern cover, the info sheet or the first chart page for something like "Stitches: 140 w × 100 h".

What does count mean? It's how many squares (Aida) or threads (evenweave/linen) fit in one inch. Higher count = smaller stitches = smaller finished design.

Why extra fabric? You need room around the design to hold it in a hoop and to frame or finish it later.

What do the results mean? "Your finished design" is the stitched area. "Fabric to cut" adds your extra fabric on every side and rounds up to the next ¼ inch.

How this cross stitch fabric calculator works

Divide the number of stitches by the stitches per inch of your fabric. On Aida, stitches per inch equals the count; on evenweave or linen stitched over two threads, it's half the count (28-count over two = 14 stitches per inch). Then add the extra fabric twice, once for each side, to get the fabric to cut. Floss Fox rounds the fabric to cut up to the next ¼ inch so you never come up short, and works out centimeters from that rounded inch value. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.