{"slug": "show-hn-stitchwink-cross-stitch-pattern-making-with-ai", "title": "Show HN: Stitchwink – Cross-stitch pattern making with AI", "summary": "A developer launched Stitchwink, a web tool at stitchwink.com that uses AI to generate cross-stitch patterns from text and optional images, with a built-in editor for manually adjusting individual stitches. The creator said general AI tools like ChatGPT produce designs that look good but are not physically realizable as actual cross-stitch patterns, and that Stitchwink's output still requires a few manual edits. The project was posted to Hacker News as a Show HN with 1 point and 0 comments.", "body_md": "My wife has been cross stitching since she was a child and I wanted to make a tool where she could generate her own custom patterns: [https://stitchwink.com/](https://stitchwink.com/)\n\nYou can try chatgpt or other AI tools but the problem is that they don't create real patterns. They look good at first glance but it's not actually a physically realizable pattern when you look at the details.\n\nThe way it works is pretty simple, you use text (& optional images) to create and edit patterns. There's also a built in editor to manually change any of the stitches. It's not perfect but with a few manual edits, she's been able to create some awesome patterns.\n\nHere are a few one the ones she's made:\n[https://stitchwink.com/share/8efdff80-2a21-4e7f-8122-553ca94...](https://stitchwink.com/share/8efdff80-2a21-4e7f-8122-553ca947c983)\n[https://stitchwink.com/share/ab47a0bf-afbc-44ff-90ad-9128535...](https://stitchwink.com/share/ab47a0bf-afbc-44ff-90ad-912853577617)\n[https://stitchwink.com/share/201fa791-39a1-4684-9f3e-2539a62...](https://stitchwink.com/share/201fa791-39a1-4684-9f3e-2539a620d489)\n[https://stitchwink.com/share/dcdf06be-fe2b-4353-85e5-3eede41...](https://stitchwink.com/share/dcdf06be-fe2b-4353-85e5-3eede41ffa72)\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49650254](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49650254)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-stitchwink-cross-stitch-pattern-making-with-ai", "canonical_source": "https://stitchwink.com", "published_at": "2026-09-10 21:15:34+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-10 21:43:57.520128+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "generative-ai", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Stitchwink", "ChatGPT", "Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-stitchwink-cross-stitch-pattern-making-with-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-stitchwink-cross-stitch-pattern-making-with-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-stitchwink-cross-stitch-pattern-making-with-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-stitchwink-cross-stitch-pattern-making-with-ai.jsonld"}}