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Kathy,
By the way, I should point out that you've done nothing wrong in creating your image. I think the problem is simply having an image mode that allows unlimited colors and then reducing the size.
Most graphics programs will introduce a bunch of new shades when reducing/enlarging size to "feather" edges.
I am emailing two images for you to try. These are not perfect but I'm curious to know if they work better for you. If so, I can re-run them through Photoshop and clean them a bit more.
Let me know.
Terry
Debbie,
I really don't know any designers who are rich...I'm sure the few exceptions are out there, but I don't know any personally! Most are like you...they're trying to eke by, doing what they love. The arts are a cruel industry. Every once in a while I hear a success story and realize they're the exception to the rule.
I would have thought the festival would be making enough money from sales alone. Shame on them, trying to make fortunes off of struggling people!
I wouldn't publish their info
either, particularly not for free. Let them pay someone a
large part of those fortunes they charge to put that up on their
site. Like they're going to do that.
Kim, member kmargittai, has graciously allowed us to give her pattern away for free here in the Community, so you can get an idea of how an illusion knitting chart works.
Please note that the PDF is a bit different in the beginning and near the middle of the pattern. Kim ended up knitting only 4 rows at the beginning instead of 12 (I would do the same, as 12 rows aren't really necessary before starting the pattern) and again she changed the 12 rows between 61 and 80 to only 8 rows. The extra rows aren't really needed, but if you want more knit rows at the beginning and between the 2 + 2 and the = 4, by all means, use the pattern exactly as charted. The nice thing with the plain knit rows is that it's about how you want them to look, not critical to the illusion pattern, so there's no right or wrong way to do it!
Get the pattern here!
It All Adds Up Illusion Pattern
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Lina,
Welcome!
We give stitch
counts, rather than skeins; you can use those counts with any
stitch count calculator online that calculates skeins by using
number of stitches and other factors, such as size of cloth, number
of plies, length of skeins, etc.
Here is one
such calculator:
https://www.thread-bare.com/tools/cross-stitch-skein-estimator
Hope that helps!
Feeee,
Welcome!
There are two
free programs I highly recommend. Both are for Windows
machines.
The first is paint.net, which is
available here:
https://www.getpaint.net/
The other is Gimp, available here:
https://www.gimp.org/
Kathy,
By the way, I should point out that you've done nothing wrong in creating your image. I think the problem is simply having an image mode that allows unlimited colors and then reducing the size.
Most graphics programs will introduce a bunch of new shades when reducing/enlarging size to "feather" edges.
I am emailing two images for you to try. These are not perfect but I'm curious to know if they work better for you. If so, I can re-run them through Photoshop and clean them a bit more.
Let me know.
Terry
Debbie,
I really don't know any designers who are rich...I'm sure the few exceptions are out there, but I don't know any personally! Most are like you...they're trying to eke by, doing what they love. The arts are a cruel industry. Every once in a while I hear a success story and realize they're the exception to the rule.
I would have thought the festival would be making enough money from sales alone. Shame on them, trying to make fortunes off of struggling people!
I wouldn't publish their info
either, particularly not for free. Let them pay someone a
large part of those fortunes they charge to put that up on their
site. Like they're going to do that. Kim, member kmargittai, has graciously allowed us to give her pattern away for free here in the Community, so you can get an idea of how an illusion knitting chart works.
Please note that the PDF is a bit different in the beginning and near the middle of the pattern. Kim ended up knitting only 4 rows at the beginning instead of 12 (I would do the same, as 12 rows aren't really necessary before starting the pattern) and again she changed the 12 rows between 61 and 80 to only 8 rows. The extra rows aren't really needed, but if you want more knit rows at the beginning and between the 2 + 2 and the = 4, by all means, use the pattern exactly as charted. The nice thing with the plain knit rows is that it's about how you want them to look, not critical to the illusion pattern, so there's no right or wrong way to do it!
Get the pattern here!
It All Adds Up Illusion Pattern
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