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New! The Herrschner's Worsted Palette - thank you to BetwixtTheStitch!
New! We've just added the palette for Deborah Norville Everyday Yarn! If you knit and/or crochet, this is for you. This is a beautiful yarn with a nice feel to it, a good alternative in worsted weight acrylic! (Thank you again to BetwixtTheStitch!)
New! The Red Heart Super Saver Palette - thank you to BetwixtTheStitch!
Welcome to Stitchboard! Feel free to sit and stay awhile. Check out our new Premier features. In addition to the ability to create larger patterns (up to 500 stitches wide), illusion knitting and private labeling (no more worries about editing those pesky and messy PDFs), we've just introduced Filet Crochet, our most popular request! We have many more features planned, too!
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RoRo,
Like Melanie said, thanks for pointing out the problem with the Contact Us page. I just fixed it.
Feel free to let us know if you have any questions or problems. We're happy to help.
Terry
Margaret,
Welcome!
You've asked an excellent question! Conventionally for knitting, you'll use a rectangular stitch; however, it's more complicated with illusion knitting. With illusion knitting, you're really knitting four rows for every "normal" row. Plus, your stitches that make the illusion image visible aren't the conventional stockinette, but rather combinations of stockinette and garter stitch, of which the latter are more compact stitches. Working the stitches as if they're square, for example, 10 stitches x 10 rows to form a square instead of 10 stitches x 12 rows to make a stockinette square, can keep your finished piece showing less distortion as you view it from the proper angle.
A caveat - this also is affected by size of image. If your image is very large, rectangular is probably a better choice (considering there's more real estate in the image, which could throw it off visually), but smaller, square stitches should cause less distortion.
Thank you, Malanie. I appreciate that very much.
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Kate,
Welcome!
No worries,
you've done nothing at all wrong. The artwork button is inactive
and can't be clicked. In testing it didn't work well, so it's still
on our development list.
Secoya,
I LOVE THAT! 
Though please
remember to upload the cupcakes themselves! 
I once made
a purple cake with some friends in high school. I no longer have
the picture, but it was very, very pretty! It was the cake itself
that was purple; I believe the icing was white, just to make it a
complete surprise. It was only after cutting into it
that anyone would have known it was a purple cake!
It was only after cutting into it
that anyone would have known it was a purple cake!RoRo,
Like Melanie said, thanks for pointing out the problem with the Contact Us page. I just fixed it.
Feel free to let us know if you have any questions or problems. We're happy to help.
Terry
Margaret,
Welcome!
You've asked an excellent question! Conventionally for knitting, you'll use a rectangular stitch; however, it's more complicated with illusion knitting. With illusion knitting, you're really knitting four rows for every "normal" row. Plus, your stitches that make the illusion image visible aren't the conventional stockinette, but rather combinations of stockinette and garter stitch, of which the latter are more compact stitches. Working the stitches as if they're square, for example, 10 stitches x 10 rows to form a square instead of 10 stitches x 12 rows to make a stockinette square, can keep your finished piece showing less distortion as you view it from the proper angle.
A caveat - this also is affected by size of image. If your image is very large, rectangular is probably a better choice (considering there's more real estate in the image, which could throw it off visually), but smaller, square stitches should cause less distortion.
Thank you, Malanie. I appreciate that very much.
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