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Amandy,
Welcome!
We don't recommend using the "colors only" option when creating your pattern. We instead recommend using either "symbols only" or "both colors and symbols," which will help clarify which color is which. To do this, in option #7 you should choose "pattern in PDF format" and then under the "Pdf:" area, you can choose "symbols only" or "both colors and symbols." "Colors only" should only be used for the most basic of patterns with only a handful of colors. Of course you're right that the human eye can't tell which colors are which when you have a lot of different shades of, say, blue!
We do have beading word charts in our plans but at the moment this feature isn't available.
Yes, I will be posting the pattern for that one as well. I just haven't gotten around to putting the pattern into my computer yet. I've been pretty busy lately. I still have to make 2 more pokemon stuffed animals, and finish my shiny umbreon virus blanket. Then I will be able to have time to add more patterns to my blog.
Piddy,
Okay, I think we're using terms interchangeably that aren't interchangeable. So here's an example; please specify which one you're doing in the drawing below, the left or the right.
In this example, your afghan is either 100 stitches x 250 rows (left) or 250 stitches x 100 rows (right).
Which one will you be doing? Will you be working from row 1 to 250, or will you be working from row 1 to 100?
If you're working as the example on the left, where row 1 starts at the bottom and goes to the top, that's called working vertically.
If you're working as the example on the right, where row 1 starts at the bottom and goes to the top, that's called working horizontally.
This is the cause of my confusion. If you say you're working horizontally, the example on the right is what I'm seeing. So if you're actually doing the left example, you're working vertically, and that's what we call portrait mode. If you're doing the right example, you're working horizontally, in landscape mode. Think about it as a picture on the wall. In most cases, the left would more likely be a portrait of a person, the right would more likely be a landscape, such as a sunset or a forest scene, where you want to see a wider view.
So, as long as you send the image in either like the example on the left, if you'll be working the rows that way, or if you send the image in like the example on the right, if you'll be working the rows that way, you'll be working the stitches correctly.
My guess is you're really doing what's on the left, but you're calling it horizontal, which is incorrect, as it's vertical. And if that's the case, as long as you sent your image in as a vertical image, then it's fine.
Hi, I'm new and am attempting to do my first portrait in crochet. I've only seen a couple of them finished but both of them were done in vertical rows. If I work my pattern in a horizontal pattern will it be out of porportion? I'd really hate to do all of that work to find it's messed up. Please advise!
Thank you!
Piddy
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Kelly
Welcome!
I know there's
an ongoing problem having to do with colors, so I've alerted Terry
who does our support.
Amandy,
Welcome!
We don't recommend using the "colors only" option when creating your pattern. We instead recommend using either "symbols only" or "both colors and symbols," which will help clarify which color is which. To do this, in option #7 you should choose "pattern in PDF format" and then under the "Pdf:" area, you can choose "symbols only" or "both colors and symbols." "Colors only" should only be used for the most basic of patterns with only a handful of colors. Of course you're right that the human eye can't tell which colors are which when you have a lot of different shades of, say, blue!
We do have beading word charts in our plans but at the moment this feature isn't available.
Yes, I will be posting the pattern for that one as well. I just haven't gotten around to putting the pattern into my computer yet. I've been pretty busy lately. I still have to make 2 more pokemon stuffed animals, and finish my shiny umbreon virus blanket. Then I will be able to have time to add more patterns to my blog.
Piddy,
Okay, I think we're using terms interchangeably that aren't interchangeable. So here's an example; please specify which one you're doing in the drawing below, the left or the right.
In this example, your afghan is either 100 stitches x 250 rows (left) or 250 stitches x 100 rows (right).
Which one will you be doing? Will you be working from row 1 to 250, or will you be working from row 1 to 100?
If you're working as the example on the left, where row 1 starts at the bottom and goes to the top, that's called working vertically.
If you're working as the example on the right, where row 1 starts at the bottom and goes to the top, that's called working horizontally.
This is the cause of my confusion. If you say you're working horizontally, the example on the right is what I'm seeing. So if you're actually doing the left example, you're working vertically, and that's what we call portrait mode. If you're doing the right example, you're working horizontally, in landscape mode. Think about it as a picture on the wall. In most cases, the left would more likely be a portrait of a person, the right would more likely be a landscape, such as a sunset or a forest scene, where you want to see a wider view.
So, as long as you send the image in either like the example on the left, if you'll be working the rows that way, or if you send the image in like the example on the right, if you'll be working the rows that way, you'll be working the stitches correctly.
My guess is you're really doing what's on the left, but you're calling it horizontal, which is incorrect, as it's vertical. And if that's the case, as long as you sent your image in as a vertical image, then it's fine.
Hi, I'm new and am attempting to do my first portrait in crochet. I've only seen a couple of them finished but both of them were done in vertical rows. If I work my pattern in a horizontal pattern will it be out of porportion? I'd really hate to do all of that work to find it's messed up. Please advise!
Thank you!
Piddy
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