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Zuesad,
C2C is a stitch that means "Corner to Corner." This stitch is worked diagonally. It sounds more complex than it is. It's actually quite simple!
This is a step-by-step tutorial and you can see what it looks like from the very first picture.
https://sarahmaker.com/c2c-crochet/


So I have never been great at doing things on a small scale. It's how I ended up buying over 600 books in 5 years when living in the UK. It's why I am tinkering on a 40k piece jigsaw puzzle.
And it turns out that cross-stitching is no different. To first get the hang of it again I stitched four 10x10cm (little under 4 inches by 4 inches) coasters for a friend, featuring the starter Pokemon.
But already my fingers are itching for a big project. I have picked my image. And I thought I might document the journey here.
First was the question of getting the pattern right before ordering all those threads.
I love the extra vividness you get from using as many colours as possible. But I am not certain I can justify buying over 250 skeins. Sadly I am not made of money.
I compromised at 100 colours, which still leaves me with 143 skeins.
I got the brightness where I wanted it pretty quick. But then started the question of the contrast. In general I like contrast, and I want the colours to be vivid. But on the other hand I dont want the face and stomach to have these massive blotches of white.
In the end I went with brightness 30, contrast 15, smoothness 0.
Converting between pixels/stitches, inches and cm almost tripped me up bad. I speak metric. So I almost made a picture, the length of which fits in a frame and the width... wouldn't. Thankfully I caught it in the nick of time.
In total this will be 320 x 449 stitches. So a total of 143,680 stitches. Yikes.
Any suggestions on good places to order DMC cotton that would ship within Europe anyone?


Hi my name is Iris I just had a picture made into a pattern this is my first time doing this. I had it done in basic so my question is it C2c are is it regular crocheting ?

Asedai,
Welcome! Smile
When you read a word pattern that has been made by the freePatternWizard, you don't need to reverse rows; the software reverses every other row for you. Smile
The picture graph vs the word pattern is a personal choice. Some find the word pattern easier to follow; others prefer the graph. If you find you're struggling with the word pattern, you may find the graph easier to follow.
What kind of problem are you having? Is it that your colors aren't lining up? Are the counts off because the rows aren't all adding up the same? Have you sampled a few rows to see that the numbers all add up? (In case some new issue has cropped up and we don't yet know about it!)
Hope that helps! Smile


Thanks for your help. I decided to just go with the single crochet.  I just really prefer HDC!  
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