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Gloshei,

C2C is Corner to Corner, which is a crochet stitch that enables you to work from corner to corner diagonally instead of vertically.

Because of the way the stitches are made, the results are sets of squares, which lend themselves well to making graphed patterns.

Thanks Melanie for the advice you gave twintrza.... I have my yarn now and am chomping at the bit to start my first graphgan...but thought I ought to look into the whole process a bit first. Glad I did. I would have been cutting and joining colours an gazillion times, but now know to make myself some bobbins with yarn etc. I will take the above nugget of advice and do a simple practice graphgan to get my head around the process. Like I said the other day in the comments to my question...don't hold your breath waiting Hhahaha!

Hi Kathy,

I am looking for a solution to the problem Caroline is having or similar to it. I want to make a graph from a photo, but I want the background solid. Would you be able to help me? If you could email me at lilbj48@yahoo.com that would be wonderful as I will probably forget to come back to this message when I log out!

Hi, Holly.

Here are a few possible causes of this:

1. Your image is in the .jpg format. This image format, unless saved without compression, commonly has stray pixels, often in subtle off-colors.

2. You're starting with a large image and the freePatternWizard is reducing it to a smaller size that you specify. Reducing images can often introduce unwanted pixels or colors.

3. Your image may actually include pixels of other colors that are not apparent unless you enlarge it a lot. I recently received a black and white image from a user and she was asking why the program gave her a bunch of colors in addition to shades of gray. I magnified the image 1200 times and there were hundreds and hundreds of pixels that were yellow, red, green, blue, and various other colors. The freePatternWizard sees these colors and considers them part of the image so it tries to include these in the final image.

There are other possible causes of stray colors but these are some of the more common ones.

Here are a few potential things you can do to deal with the issue:

Try making adjustments in Section 8:

"Stray pixel cleanup" in section 8 can sometimes help. Set this to "light", "medium", or "heavy" to see if it helps.
Try turning on the "Antialias" feature
Turn up the brightness a little
Turn down the contrast a bit
Set the "Smoothness" setting toward the "Smoother"
Turn up the "Color Sensitivity"
Some combination of the above

The only real solution is to start with an uncompressed .gif or .png image that has the same number of pixels wide as you want stitches across.

This almost always creates a perfect, clean chart.

Hope this helps.

Terry

Melanie,

Yeah.. Maybe I should..
I'll keep it to myself for some time - just because.. :p
Maybe when I have more time.. I have not written anything down for the pattern, I just went with it (I think I hate myself for this - cause I do it very often..)

Unfortunately the slippers are so very small (only 8 cm), so I have to make another pair, in a bigger size (what a shame though). I'll send the smaller ones over too, because she can use them for when the baby arrives.. Cheesy