Color by number, stitched. Pick a thread, drag across the numbered linen and watch a cross-stitch picture appear in your hoop, then see the whole thing stitched again from the first cell to the last.
Thimbleberry Stitch is a color by number game dressed as cross-stitch. Every picture starts as a grid of cream linen with a number in each cell. Each number is a thread in the palette at the bottom of the screen. Pick a thread and stitch its cells, and little by little a picture comes through: a sunflower, a lighthouse at dusk, a sleeping cat, a quilt block.
Every picture is drawn in code by us, from 16 by 16 cells up to 40 by 40. There are 240 of them in eight albums (Garden Gate, Seaside, Kitchen Table, Woodland, Night Sky, Desert Bloom, Cozy Home and Quilt Patterns), and every one is open from the start. Nothing is locked and nothing is for sale. It's free and plays in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer, with no download.
Your selected thread sits raised in the palette, and its cells on the linen are shaded with a soft hatch so you can spot them even when zoomed out. Tap a cell to stitch it. Better still, put your finger on one of those cells and drag: every matching cell you pass over is stitched in one stroke, with a note that climbs as the run grows. Cells with other numbers are simply skipped, so a long sweep never spoils anything.
How to play Thimbleberry Stitch: the full guide
Yes. It's free to play in your browser, with no ads in the game and nothing to buy. Every picture is open and every helper is earned.
Tap the magnifier. It moves the view to the nearest cell you still need and rings it. It's free and you can use it as often as you like.
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