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the first pattern I did here was photo and turned out amazing! have not tested the colors yet but I am ecstatic with results, and on my cell phone not even computer
De'Andrea,
Ouch, the four days off must be nice, but what a hassle to work the other four days! Especially when you have to drive 50 miles each way, yuck. I hope working nights is at least quiet?
I worked a sort of split shift many years ago. It was a horrible job, but the hours were pretty decent. 11:45am to 8:30pm (dinner was 3/4 of an hour and not included in the hourly count, so that was the reason there was an extra 15 minutes beforehand and an extra 30 minutes after). It was a not too bad schedule for those who didn't like to get up early, but so inefficient with the way they did things! They ordered a 15 minute meeting before starting work. Then we'd all work and you had to work up until exactly 8:30. Some people's managers understood that if you got a call at 8:30, you wouldn't be off the phone until at least a few minutes later, so they'd allow them to be "offline" from the phones for the last few minutes. But my manager was a stickler. She wanted me to be available until 8:30 on the dot. So the next shift had arrived and would be goofing off, slowly getting on the phones and most of my shift would be "offline," but I was expected to be there "online" until 8:30 and I'd almost ALWAYS get a complicated call at 8:30. But then, my phone was one of the few available.
I was SO glad to leave that place!
It's really nice to have money to spend on crafty things.
I can totally relate! There's always
some beautiful beads or yarns that call out, especially in the
middle of the night. "Buy me!" One cannot resist the call! 
I love that you worked in square stitch, too, especially how you developed your own technique! LOL, I wasn't inventive enough to work
with two beads at a time, so I just went the plodding old one bead
at a time way. It took forever, but I did love ending up with
something that looked like it was loom beaded!
There weren't very many things around for beading in the past...some of my first seed beads were from large plastic packages, sigh. No bead stores anywhere in my area. Even the big box craft stores came much later. Only place to buy anything was a department store, and most didn't carry beads.
That's so cool how you have four looms! I forget...is retirement in your near
future? I hope you can be using all four looms at once when that
happens!
Love the details of the turquoise in the middle and the loop. The star is gorgeous as it is, but I
think the details that aren't standard really help to make a piece,
particularly this one.
Anytime you need help with PDFs...I'm not an expert, but I do know enough to be dangerous.
LOL.
All RIGHT...45 more lines! So psyched for you!
Argh, working in the ends...beading, crochet, knitting...it's so tedious! At least doing the actual work is fun, but the ends are just too annoying.
When working a beading project I try to get a few rows up so no worries about crossing ends woven in, which makes it a LITTLE less tedious. Still is a chore, though.
Melanie,
He really loves it.. The problem is now his little brother :p haha..
He ofc wants to have something too - wich I fully understand, but he wants it in this instant.. He'll have to wait for his birthday to get something this big.. I really hate stitching the parts together.. :p
Piddy,
As long as you send the pattern through correctly, it shouldn't be out of proportion. In other words, if you send the pattern in vertically and then work it horizontally, it will be out of proportion because crochet stitches (e.g., single crochet stitches) are wide, not high.
If you send it through horizontally, then your stitches will be wide and can be worked horizontally.
The program isn't really concerned with how you send your image through, because it doesn't understand the difference between working your piece in "portrait" or "landscape" mode; it's up to you to be sure you send it in a way that will give it the proper aspect ratio so your stitches aren't skewed.
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Conny,
Oooh, will check out your
photos! Thanks for uploading!
Thanks for uploading! We've increased
the sizes of the images a bit that you can upload, so I hope that
helps.
I see what you
mean...glad you figured it out! I like your saying. We have a similar
one, but ours is "Put the cart before the horse," since carts are
traditionally pulled by horses and not placed in front of them.
I like your saying. We have a similar
one, but ours is "Put the cart before the horse," since carts are
traditionally pulled by horses and not placed in front of them.
the first pattern I did here was photo and turned out amazing! have not tested the colors yet but I am ecstatic with results, and on my cell phone not even computer
De'Andrea,
Ouch, the four days off must be nice, but what a hassle to work the other four days! Especially when you have to drive 50 miles each way, yuck. I hope working nights is at least quiet?
I worked a sort of split shift many years ago. It was a horrible job, but the hours were pretty decent. 11:45am to 8:30pm (dinner was 3/4 of an hour and not included in the hourly count, so that was the reason there was an extra 15 minutes beforehand and an extra 30 minutes after). It was a not too bad schedule for those who didn't like to get up early, but so inefficient with the way they did things! They ordered a 15 minute meeting before starting work. Then we'd all work and you had to work up until exactly 8:30. Some people's managers understood that if you got a call at 8:30, you wouldn't be off the phone until at least a few minutes later, so they'd allow them to be "offline" from the phones for the last few minutes. But my manager was a stickler. She wanted me to be available until 8:30 on the dot. So the next shift had arrived and would be goofing off, slowly getting on the phones and most of my shift would be "offline," but I was expected to be there "online" until 8:30 and I'd almost ALWAYS get a complicated call at 8:30. But then, my phone was one of the few available.
I was SO glad to leave that place!
It's really nice to have money to spend on crafty things.
I can totally relate! There's always
some beautiful beads or yarns that call out, especially in the
middle of the night. "Buy me!" One cannot resist the call! I love that you worked in square stitch, too, especially how you developed your own technique!
LOL, I wasn't inventive enough to work
with two beads at a time, so I just went the plodding old one bead
at a time way. It took forever, but I did love ending up with
something that looked like it was loom beaded!There weren't very many things around for beading in the past...some of my first seed beads were from large plastic packages, sigh. No bead stores anywhere in my area. Even the big box craft stores came much later. Only place to buy anything was a department store, and most didn't carry beads.
That's so cool how you have four looms!
I forget...is retirement in your near
future? I hope you can be using all four looms at once when that
happens! Love the details of the turquoise in the middle and the loop.
The star is gorgeous as it is, but I
think the details that aren't standard really help to make a piece,
particularly this one. Anytime you need help with PDFs...I'm not an expert, but I do know enough to be dangerous.
LOL.All RIGHT...45 more lines!
So psyched for you! Argh, working in the ends...beading, crochet, knitting...it's so tedious! At least doing the actual work is fun, but the ends are just too annoying.
When working a beading project I try to get a few rows up so no worries about crossing ends woven in, which makes it a LITTLE less tedious. Still is a chore, though.
Melanie,
He really loves it.. The problem is now his little brother :p haha..
He ofc wants to have something too - wich I fully understand, but he wants it in this instant.. He'll have to wait for his birthday to get something this big.. I really hate stitching the parts together.. :p
Piddy,
As long as you send the pattern through correctly, it shouldn't be out of proportion. In other words, if you send the pattern in vertically and then work it horizontally, it will be out of proportion because crochet stitches (e.g., single crochet stitches) are wide, not high.
If you send it through horizontally, then your stitches will be wide and can be worked horizontally.
The program isn't really concerned with how you send your image through, because it doesn't understand the difference between working your piece in "portrait" or "landscape" mode; it's up to you to be sure you send it in a way that will give it the proper aspect ratio so your stitches aren't skewed.
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