Do thisPut the four pins exactly on the cut corners — right on the edge, no gap.
Not thisDon’t pin inside the edge. Everything shaded is thrown away, and your mesh maps at the wrong scale.
9 or 16 pinsExtra pins straighten a warped canvas — but keep every pin in a row on the same horizontal thread, and every column on one vertical thread. The middle pin here has slipped off its row. Drag any pin to see its crosshair and check the pin opposite sits on that same thread.
The photoWhole canvas, square-on, laid flat in even light — no angle, no shadow across the mesh. JPEG, PNG, HEIC or WebP all work.
thread on top · traveling on the back
The needle always passes through the holes of the canvas — never through a canvas thread.
What were you doing, and what did it do instead? The more ordinary the detail, the easier it is to find — “I tapped the pool with Bargello and the flowers lost their stitches” is perfect.
Or write to hello@pointtostitch.app — same thing, slower.
This canvas hasn’t been measured yet. Pieces of the same mesh count vary by half a percent or so — enough to walk the ink off the threads toward the edges while the middle still looks perfect. Measuring takes a minute and is what makes the print land hole‑for‑hole.
Line a ruler’s 0 up with the left edge of a thread, count holes to the same edge of a later thread, and type both numbers: how many holes, and how far they measure. Tap 3″/6″/12″ for a ruler span, or type an exact distance if you measured a set number of holes with calipers — that is the more precise way. Do it once across, once down.
Both ends must be the same edge. Left edge to right edge sneaks in one extra thread width, which reads about half a percent small on a 6″ span — enough to drift a thread across a big design.
The span mark rarely lands exactly on a hole, so you round to the nearest one — and that rounding is the whole error. Over an 8″ design it costs about 1.3 threads at 3″, 0.7 at 6″, 0.3 at 12″. Use the longest span your canvas allows.
Print-ready: instructions, a tape-down placement guide for printing on canvas, and the design at true size.
Printers are individuals — each lays ink down a touch differently. Three one-time measurements make every print land hole-for-hole on your canvas.
Each is stored for your printer, not per project. You’ll want a sheet of plain paper and a ruler.
Which side of a landscape sheet goes into the printer first. Print the placement guide once and watch which edge comes out first — if the arrow sits on the other edge, flip this.
Printers rarely print at exactly 100%, and half a percent walks the design off the threads across a 6″ piece. Print the placement guide, measure the check bar with a ruler, and type what it really reads.
The second pass through the printer never lands exactly on the first. One dry run on plain paper measures the offset — after that it’s cancelled automatically.
Every setting in the app, explained — the same notes as the ⓘ buttons, all in one place.
Nothing matches — try a different word.
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2 · Add to Home ScreenScroll down the share list to find it, then tap Add.
3 · DoneYour icon appears with your other apps. Open it from there and you get the whole screen.
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Pick the projects going out together. Each carrier is one piece of canvas, so jobs are grouped by mesh.