8bit Crafts

Pixel patterns for your next handmade project.

Find a design you love and make it with cross stitch, fuse beads, plastic canvas, and more. Start with a free pattern, or create your own.

Digital patterns only. Physical materials and tools are not included.

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Browse without an account. A free account is required to open, save, or download patterns.

Skull #3 pattern artwork

How it works

  1. Choose a pattern.

    Browse for free. Create a free account to save and open a pattern, including its available downloads.

  2. Pick your craft and gather supplies.

    Choose a supported craft on the pattern page. Use the same design for different crafts; materials and tools are separate.

  3. Follow the pattern online or print it.

    Keep your place in Pixel Peeper, our online viewer, or use the available printable PDFs. Check each pattern for its craft formats and files.

Make it one square at a time.

Each design includes patterns for multiple crafts, so you can choose how you want to make it.

Hands using tweezers to place a red mosaic tile on a partially filled pixel heart.
Place a tile.
Hands stitching tan yarn through an unfinished section of a plastic canvas pixel project.
Pull the next stitch.
A hand coloring a purple square on a rainbow heart paper cutout with some squares still blank.
Color a square.
Hands coloring a tiny wooden square red beside painted blocks and a pixel heart backer.
Add a little color.
Hands wrapping red yarn around nails on a wooden pixel heart with part of the board unfinished.
Wrap a little yarn.
A hand placing a red wooden square on the unfinished heart in a row of three pixel hearts.
Piece it together.

Find a free pattern

Choose a digital design, then make it in any of its supported crafts. These are pattern previews, ready to explore in cross stitch, fuse beads, plastic canvas, and more.

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Turn your image or idea into a pattern.

Upload a favorite image, draw your own pixel art, or describe an idea for AI. Turn your design into patterns for all eight crafts, ready for your next handmade project.

  • Upload an image
  • Draw it yourself
  • Imagine it with AI

Sign up for 5 one-time free creation credits. One credit creates one completed design, whether you upload, draw, or use AI. Editing a saved design and generating its craft files use no extra credits. Failed or cancelled attempts do not spend credits.

Explore Create Your Own
Example: a sunflower photo beside its simplified pixel-art craft pattern
Photo-to-pattern example: a sunflower photo and its digital pattern preview. Image conversion is an AI interpretation; results vary.

Start free. Choose more when you need it.

With a free account

Save and follow free library patterns online, download their available files, and create your own designs with 5 one-time credits.

With Pixel Pass or Pixel Pro

Unlock every library pattern, available premium downloads, and recoloring tools. Pixel Pass includes 10 creation credits per month; Pixel Pro includes 50. Monthly credits do not roll over. Some premium patterns are also available individually.

Compare plans and pricing

Follow patterns online with Pixel Peeper

Zoom into the grid, see colors and symbols, and check off finished squares. Pixel Peeper saves your place so you can return to your project later. No printing required.

Included for free patterns with a free account. Premium patterns require a paid plan or individual access.

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Ready to start your next pixel craft project?

Choose a design and a craft that fit your supplies and the time you have.

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