Stitch in Time: Cross-Stitch

A needle sews your day, stitch by stitch.

Stitch in Time turns your watch into a little embroidery hoop of linen. The time is cross-stitched in cotton floss, a heart fills with your steps, and a wreath of tiny motifs around the edge records your day.

YOUR DAY, EMBROIDERED
Twenty-four small motifs ring the hoop, one for each hour, with midnight at the top.
• The hours behind you are finished embroidery.
• The hour you are in is being sewn right now, a stitch at a time.
• The hours ahead still wait as the kit's blue printed pattern.
By evening most of the ring is in thread, and at midnight the pattern starts fresh.

Night brings a moon, gold stars and silver sparkles. A sunrise, a sun and a sunset mark the day, and the hours between bloom with the season's flowers and leaves, shaded in light and dark threads.

THE NEEDLE
A steel needle rests where your day has reached and travels around the hoop with it. Each minute, and when you raise your wrist, it dives into the cloth and pulls its thread taut. The thread takes the color of its last stitch: tan for an acorn, gold for a star.

A COTTAGE FOR THE WEEK
Under your step count, a little cottage is stitched one part a day, from the grass on Monday to a bird on Sunday. The tree and the bird wear the season.

THE SEASONS
Blossom in spring, strawberries and daisies in summer, oak leaves and acorns in autumn, holly and snowflakes in winter. Seasons (auto) takes your hemisphere from your watch's time zone, with no location permission, so a watch set to Sydney sews spring blossom in September. Zones near the equator use the northern wreath. You can also choose Seasons (north), Seasons (south) or one favorite wreath all year.

STEPS
A little heart fills toward your step goal, with the count beside it. Reach the goal and its outline and the footprints turn to gilt thread.

TILT SHIMMER
Roll your wrist and the stitches of the time catch the light, a gleam slides around the hoop and the needle's shadow shifts. You can switch it off.

ONE COMPLICATION
One slot above the date, battery by default, stitched with its icon and a little gauge for values such as battery.

ALWAYS-ON
The lamp goes out. Pale numerals, the date and the heart's outline stay, with a running stitch around the edge that ends in a French knot at the current time.

MAKE IT YOURS
Hold the watch face and choose Customize or Edit:
• Floss: Madder red, Indigo, Moss, Plum, Walnut, Rose or Ink black
• Cloth: Natural linen, Antique white or Flax
• Wreath: Seasons (auto), Seasons (north), Seasons (south), Blossom, Strawberry, Oak & acorn or Holly & snow
• Tilt shimmer: on or off
• The complication

12-hour and 24-hour time follow your watch's setting. The date uses English weekday abbreviations, and the complication shows capital letters, numbers and common symbols only (no accents or other scripts).

REQUIREMENTS
Requires Wear OS 6 or later (Watch Face Format 4).

OPTIONAL PHONE SETUP GUIDE
Stitch in Time · Setup is an optional phone guide: a recorded preview of the face, how to add it to your watch and use its settings, and help. You don't need it to use the watch face; Google Play installs the face on your watch.