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Buggg66,
Welcome! Smile
What a cool design! Kiss
The first thought that occurred to me is the font is too thin to do more than blob up, as you can see. What the freePatternWizard isn't (at the moment) is an editor. It looks at anything made of basic thin lines and doesn't really know what to do with it.
The font here is actually more suitable to backstitch, which we don't offer at this time, though it's in our plans.
The next thing is about your image. What file format is it in? If it's in jpg, the format will have shades of other colors in it and extraneous characters you can't really see just by looking at it. This will confuse the freePatternWizard, which will take the colors it sees and "report" them as those other colors, as in different shades of red in this case.
The best formats to use are gif and png, because those don't introduce extraneous colors. But you can't go from a saved jpg to a gif, because the colors are already there in the file.
Next, are you sending an image that is pixel-to-stitch, e.g., 50 pixels across = 50 stitches across? Since the freePatternWizard isn't an actual editor, if you don't send it an image like that first, it will do its best as it tries to expand or contract the image, but the results won't be great.
Finally, you also need to pay attention to thin lines here, too. If your image is set (for example) for 50 pixels as opposed to 200, a thinner line or smaller dot may disappear, being too thin or small for the freePatternWizard.
The good news is that it's not at all impossible to work with such an image; mostly, you need to be mindful of what's going on with the various things mentioned above for a good result. Smile
Hope that helps! Kiss


Secoya,
I'm sorry to say it's been so long, I can't recall why the gray areas are there, but you're correct, they're not overlaps. We had originally discussed putting in overlaps; however, for some reason that didn't make it into the finished version of the freePatternWizard, and I'm not entirely sure why!
What I can do is request that we add an overlap at a later date. I'm not sure exactly when that will happen, though, as we've already got our programmer chained to his desk (no worries, we occasionally throw some food his way Laughing). Seriously, we have a list of over 100 features we want to add to the freePatternWizard, so with that many changes it will take some time. I'm very sorry I don't have a better answer for you. Frown


Thanks Melanie, that's a great help!  
I have found 97 skeins of DMC which I would like to use on my next project (if possible).
I'm sure there is a "stich chart" website which will incorporate my stock of DMC into the pattern but I can't find it now.Frown   Can you help? or can you suggest which blog I should use for this topic?
Many thanks,  Dave

Melanie,

And support is 25% of the work IMO.. Smiley

It's nice to have support for the things you make.. It makes the whole process a bit funnier.. Smiley


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there's nothing wrong with teens cross stitching i learnt at 4 years old how to and the magazines are absolutely brilliant the projects are wonderful to do and make great gifts and the cover kits will really help you out with colours for threads and of course there is the pattern maker on site for you to make your own cross stitch patterns this pattern is one i created using the pattern maker on site from a drawing of ariel my husband did for me feel free to use it 
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