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Hello
I'm Anjanette from Louisville.
Hi Admin thank you I can wait. Your all doing a great job 👏🏻😻
Nice to meet everyone! I am new! I just have question. Does it have a C2C option? All I see is for doing single stitch across. I have picture that I want to c2c.
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So I have never been great at doing things on a small
scale. It's how I ended up buying over 600 books in 5 years when
living in the UK. It's why I am tinkering on a 40k piece jigsaw
puzzle.
And it turns out that
cross-stitching is no different. To first get the hang of it again
I stitched four 10x10cm (little under 4 inches by 4 inches)
coasters for a friend, featuring the starter Pokemon.
But already my fingers are itching for a big project. I
have picked my image. And I thought I might document the journey
here.
First was the question of getting the
pattern right before ordering all those threads.
I love the extra vividness you get from using as many
colours as possible. But I am not certain I can justify buying over
250 skeins. Sadly I am not made of money.
I
compromised at 100 colours, which still leaves me with 143
skeins.
I got the brightness where I wanted
it pretty quick. But then started the question of the contrast. In
general I like contrast, and I want the colours to be vivid. But on
the other hand I dont want the face and stomach to have these
massive blotches of white.
In the end I went
with brightness 30, contrast 15, smoothness 0.
Converting between pixels/stitches, inches and cm almost
tripped me up bad. I speak metric. So I almost made a picture, the
length of which fits in a frame and the width... wouldn't.
Thankfully I caught it in the nick of time.
In total this will be 320 x 449 stitches. So a total of
143,680 stitches. Yikes.
Any suggestions on
good places to order DMC cotton that would ship within Europe
anyone?
Hello
I'm Anjanette from Louisville.
Hi Admin thank you I can wait. Your all doing a great job 👏🏻😻
Tasha,
Welcome! 
Are you talking
about for C2C or just a regular afghan?
Regardless of which you're talking about, if you're looking to make it a certain size, you must make a gauge swatch. I know, almost nobody likes making them (yes, me included), but that's the only way to calculate how many stitches you'll need. You must make this swatch using the fiber you plan to use and the hook size.
Regardless of which you're talking about, if you're looking to make it a certain size, you must make a gauge swatch. I know, almost nobody likes making them (yes, me included), but that's the only way to calculate how many stitches you'll need. You must make this swatch using the fiber you plan to use and the hook size.
The reason I can't give you a specific
number is because all of these things are as individual as you are.
Your chosen fiber, hook and tension
will be different from mine. So if you're looking to make a
specific size of anything - even someone's published pattern - you
must swatch.
Your chosen fiber, hook and tension
will be different from mine. So if you're looking to make a
specific size of anything - even someone's published pattern - you
must swatch.Nice to meet everyone! I am new! I just have question. Does it have a C2C option? All I see is for doing single stitch across. I have picture that I want to c2c.
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