Getting started

If you know exactly what you're doing with the pattern, grab your needle and thread and start celebrating Matt Smith's reign as the Doctor via the medium of cross stitch.

Need a bit of help?

The picture above is a counted cross stitch chart: you work on a piece of blank fabric and create the final picture by following the key. Most cross-stitchers use aida, a block-weave fabric that has a hole at the corner of each block.

The key, which you can see to your right, tells you exactly where to put which stitch, and what colour thread you should use to make that stitch.

DMC, Anchor and Madeira are popular brands of thread, or stranded cotton: the key above tells you exactly which products you need buy to complete the picture accurately. The words and numbers (eg Ecru, 387, 2101) are the references to specific colours in each of these brands.

Still confused?

If you have never cross-stitched before, take a look here for a how-to cross stitching guide.

You can download the pattern as a pdf here.

• The Matt Smith chart was created for the Stitch a Star series in CrossStitcher magazine, from a picture © Rex Features