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First off, let me say I just found this site the other night. When I asked someone if they could create a Word Chart (Crocheting) from a picture and at this time they could not, I googled and found this site. Awesome!
I was afraid of being booted off I uploaded the pictures so many times.
My question is, I want to keep this picture of our two Westies sitting on a dock simple, so I selected my own colors. I will use "I Love This Yarn" for the graphghan. It is for my husband, for Christmas. The one thing I found (and I have done it over so many times) is that it WILL NOT use white for my Westies. Is there a way to tell it to use white? Would this be in the Premier edition?
What I finally did was choose 7 colors, then I changed what colors I thought it should be. For some reason it made an area of our dog Medium yellow, so now all medium yellow will be Off white. Also, anything light gray will be off white. Medium Gray will be White. For some reason it thinks my dogs are gray. Ha!
I am excited to do this Word Chart. You see, our last Westie we had to put down in May. I wanted to do something for my hubby and surprise him. Trust me, he won't have a clue what I'm doing in my craft room.
I was trying to keep it from having too many balls of yarn attached to one row, but it seems it is up to 49 in row 1.
Suggestions for choosing correct colors for a simple photo?
Thank you!
Nancy S.
Thanks for your patience! As I mentioned somewhere, this is a lot of fun for me too. It's always satisfying to see people using the software.
Right now I'm very backed up with things to do. (I also have a lot of support email to answer but I'm slowly working through them.) As I posted before, I'm mainly concentrating on fixing all the known issues before starting to turn on new things.
As time goes on I expect to begin catching up and will have more time to work on the program.
I'll let you know when the new updates come live.
Terry
Suzanne,
I see what you're saying.
Probably about the closest thing you'll
get to a knit-looking stitch in crochet is TKS - Tunisian Knit
Stitch. So is there a way you could adapt the above
pattern (or another crocheted entrelac pattern) to use TKS?Unfortunately, there's no direct correlation specifically from a knit stitch to a crocheted knit-looking stitch, so about all that can be done is to approximate that kind of stitch. TKS isn't perfect, but it's the closest I've ever seen.
I've actually made things in TKS before. It's a persnickety stitch, but as long as you use a large enough hook and be aware it's going to want to curl...badly...you should be fine.
If you're going to try TKS for an entrelac project and you're not familiar with the stitch, I'd suggest first practicing a bit with it, perhaps just as a straight stitch. That will give you a feel for it, how your tension works, finding the right size hook and the best way of handling the curl. Once you accomplish that, I'm sure you'll be able to make exactly what you want, and perhaps sometime publish your own pattern!
One other thing you may want to know. TKS works up thickly, much thicker than knitting, because you're making the stitch in a very different way. It's a nice warm stitch, good for scarves, hats and such, so as long as you don't mind that thickness in an afghan, you're good to go!
Debbie,
Hee hee, now you can't do anything wrong!
Videos, particularly craft videos, can take way too much time from crafting. I get very impatient when I realize there's no corresponding pattern for something on YouTube, because that means I have to sit and watch intently if I want to return to it.
Your tutorials are exactly that, clear, concise and easy to follow!
Good job!I do hope stitchers will take the time to go through your video and branch out on their own to offer new designs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WDgHzCPUHM
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