When I wasn’t in the mood for gridding, but had long, repetitive sections that were getting tedious to count, I decided I could really use a cross-stitch ruler, so I went looking on amazon for one. Only to discover that none of the ones for sale had lines marked at 10-stitch grid intervals, almost every one was marked with inch intervals “for determining count”, not for counting exact numbers of stitches, or to use as a substitute for gridding.
I even came across a reddit thread where someone was looking for the exact thing I wanted. Only to find the only person who responded with yeah, I have something like that, apparently got that “somewhere” ages ago, and had no idea where you could still get it. Went back to google, searched for a printable instead. Found one for a 3-d printer that was for drawing gridlines with a marker…cool but not quite what I needed. And there were printables for counting how many stitches per inch. But nothing ideal for what I wanted to do, which was to use the ruler to keep track of where I was in a small design without gridding the whole fabric.
So I ended up deciding to take the time to design my own. And since I couldn’t find this elsewhere, I’m sharing it here. This is a first draft, so feedback is welcome if you have suggestions on how to make this more useful. I added both lines for every 5/10 stitches as well as inch markers.
