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Edie,

Welcome!

I did a Google image search and am sorry to say I can't find anything beyond this picture. I'm not even sure where the graph is being sold or given away; as you undoubtedly know, Pinterest is completely unhelpful. I saw the same picture labeled as cross stitch and c2c, but if anything it actually looks like it would work better for regular crochet or knitting.

I'm sorry that's not much help. Sometimes patterns you really want to make appear, and trying to hunt them down is maddening. I've been there before and it's sooo discouraging.

Best of luck and I hope you can get something you like.

I'm a newbie and trying to learn to graph my own picture. I have crocheted (hdc) a graphghan so I know how to crochet one just dont know how to create a graph. Maybe I'm just slow but I dont understand all the settings.

I am 64, retired, crochet is my vice but I also cross stitch, and have done very little knitting. I'm a glutton for punishment (tongue in cheek) therefore I select difficult and challenging patterns.

Thanks in advance for any help you might give.

Hi Maria,

First, welcome and thanks for subscribing to all features!

We spoke about the tutorials yesterday. I hope to begin uploading short tutorial videos soon.

In the meantime, feel free to let us know if you have specific questions or problems. There are some basic things you can do to improve the charts.

Just a few tips:

For best quality, upload an image which has the same number of pixels across as you want stitches across. So for a 100 stitch across chart, use a 100 pixel across image.
You can often get better results by turning up brightness and/or contrast. This really depends on your image but it often helps.
If it's choosing too many colors, you can turn up the "Color Sensitivity" in section 8. You can also manually choose colors by selecting "I will choose my colors" in section 5b.
You can sometimes get better results by checking the "Anti-alias" box in section 8.
The best images to use are non-compressed ones like .gifs.
It's better to choose a palette with enough different colors in section 5a. If there aren't many colors in the palette, you won't get many colors in the final chart, and many of them will be wrong.

Again, feel free to let us know more specific questions if you want. I'm hoping to start uploading the tutorials in the next few weeks.

Terry

Candi,

Have a lovely weekend!

You should be able to follow the grid exactly the same as usual, by reading it left to right/odd, right to left/even; it's the word chart that, when working properly, will automatically read out the patterns left to right/odd, right to left/even, so you don't have to read some of them backwards.

Melanie,

Jamie had never been an "inside" resident in a house.. She had spent most of her life in a dog yard, with nothing but her bowls of water and food, and a dog house.. No toys, no nothing..
So she has been a big challenge training wise..
She had a ton of bad habits when we got her.. She could not be home alone, she chewed her way through almost everything, including doors and funiture..

I have always, and will alway, correct my dogs with positive reinforcement.. I do not scold them if they do something wrong I actually ignore it, but when they do something right I will speak to them in my "happy light voice", and give them treats.. That way they will get their behaviour corrected without the negativity..