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I would like to make a sampler for my neighbors. I cannot seem to find an alphabet that I can use to create the pattern. It will just be the family name and an established date under that. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Shelley,
Welcome!
I'm a fellow cat lover. I'm so sorry Riley isn't with you anymore.
Kitties are unforgettable...I still miss
my childhood kitties and all of the others that are no longer here.
Please feel free to post some pics of your work...we all love to drool!
Crappy crochet, huh?
LOL, that's hilarious!
ksmith,
I've done tons of graphs, some I've had to edit in another program first. I'm thinking that the most likely thing is that the software is picking up pixels that you can't see with the naked eye.
Try putting your image into a photo editing program (I use GIMP), and magnifying it so that you can see those pixels and edit the colors a bit.
Another trick that will sometimes work, is to choose a yarn and then select I will choose my colors, then when the pallette appears check only the colors you want.
Sometimes it will take a bit of work to get your graph just the way you want, and you may have to run it through several times.
Hope this helps
Tabitha,
My apologies...it appears my response to your earlier inquiry through our form has gone awry...just a guess, perhaps it went into your spam folder.
In the meantime, this is the gist of what I had written to you before:
My suggestion in this case would be to resize your original image in a graphics program to the approximate size (width) you would like your finished piece to be. (Note, you can't set the height at this time, because if you did, the image would be skewed. For now, we let the computer determine the correct aspect ratio, but this may change in the future.) So if you want your keychain to be 38 beads across, for instance, you'd resize your image in your graphics program to be 38 pixels wide, then tell the freePatternWizard you'd like your graph to be 38 stitches wide. (That option is the second one in step 6, " Use the actual number of pixels across in my image as the number of stitches across. If my image is greater than 500 pixels wide, reduce it to show 500 stitches across.")
You may have to fiddle with the image and your stitch a bit to get exactly what you want, but that really is the best way to handle it.
Also, try to use "better" images. While jpgs may be easier to find, you're much better off with GIFs, which won't have the stray pixel problems.
Melanie,
Well the backside looks like this:
I made the brim using back loops only.. And then reverse single crochet the last row to give it a different look.. I don't know what the stitch is called in english, but you go from left to right instead of right to left.. It gives the edge a really pretty look IMO.
I can try translating the pattern for you if you like?
Hugs from Denmark
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I would like to make a sampler for my neighbors. I cannot seem to find an alphabet that I can use to create the pattern. It will just be the family name and an established date under that. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Shelley,
Welcome!
I'm a fellow cat lover. I'm so sorry Riley isn't with you anymore.
Kitties are unforgettable...I still miss
my childhood kitties and all of the others that are no longer here.
Please feel free to post some pics of your work...we all love to drool!
Crappy crochet, huh?
LOL, that's hilarious! ksmith,
I've done tons of graphs, some I've had to edit in another program first. I'm thinking that the most likely thing is that the software is picking up pixels that you can't see with the naked eye.
Try putting your image into a photo editing program (I use GIMP), and magnifying it so that you can see those pixels and edit the colors a bit.
Another trick that will sometimes work, is to choose a yarn and then select I will choose my colors, then when the pallette appears check only the colors you want.
Sometimes it will take a bit of work to get your graph just the way you want, and you may have to run it through several times.
Hope this helps
Tabitha,
My apologies...it appears my response to your earlier inquiry through our form has gone awry...just a guess, perhaps it went into your spam folder.
In the meantime, this is the gist of what I had written to you before:
My suggestion in this case would be to resize your original image in a graphics program to the approximate size (width) you would like your finished piece to be. (Note, you can't set the height at this time, because if you did, the image would be skewed. For now, we let the computer determine the correct aspect ratio, but this may change in the future.) So if you want your keychain to be 38 beads across, for instance, you'd resize your image in your graphics program to be 38 pixels wide, then tell the freePatternWizard you'd like your graph to be 38 stitches wide. (That option is the second one in step 6, " Use the actual number of pixels across in my image as the number of stitches across. If my image is greater than 500 pixels wide, reduce it to show 500 stitches across.")
You may have to fiddle with the image and your stitch a bit to get exactly what you want, but that really is the best way to handle it.
Also, try to use "better" images. While jpgs may be easier to find, you're much better off with GIFs, which won't have the stray pixel problems.
Melanie,
Well the backside looks like this:
I made the brim using back loops only.. And then reverse single crochet the last row to give it a different look.. I don't know what the stitch is called in english, but you go from left to right instead of right to left.. It gives the edge a really pretty look IMO.
I can try translating the pattern for you if you like?
Hugs from Denmark
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