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Veronica,
I keep thinking of suggestions:
I'm not sure if I ever discussed image size, resolution, and finished stitched item but it's all basically mathematics.
Let's say you want a finished stitched item to be 8 inches wide using 18-count aida.
You would take 8x18 and the result would be 144 stitches across.
So the best image to give the program would be 144 pixels across.
Now let's say your image is 2,000 pixels across. Using a photo editor program you could resize it to 144 pixels across.
Depending on the contents of your image, this reduction could easily become unrecognizable since you're basically dumping 83% of the pixels.
If the contents were less detailed (maybe something scenic), it very well could look fine.
So I would suggest doing things in reverse.
1. Decide on the final size of your stitched item
2. Decide on your aida stitch count
3. Multiply the number of inches in #1 by the count in #2
4. The result gives the number of pixels across your image should be
5. Using a photo editor program, reduce your image to the count from #4
6. Use this reduced image to create your pattern
If the resulting image in step #5 looks good, your pattern and stitched item should come out good.
If the resulting
image in step #5 looks bad (i.e. You've lost too much detail),
either increase the width in #1 and begin again, increase the aida
count and begin again, or change the original image, or any
combination of these, and begin again.
Even
though the PatternWizard will do the photo reduction in place of a
photo editor, I usually suggest you do it with en editor so you
know right away how it will look. It's a big time saver
that helps choose the right image or forces you to start cropping
and better selecting the contents.
Just some
ideas...
Terry
@radolini63 Thank you! I will take all the luck I can get

@GuerraRouge That is really cool, have you picked a picture you want to do? If you are up for it, would love to see what you are planning and working on.
@Melanie Looking back now, I would have loved to take shop classes. I got to try it once, when boys were sent to cook and we got to do woodwork. I would have loved to do more of it though. Would have saved me a lot of time and effort later on.
And really glad that you have been happy with the people that you have gotten for the renovations. Its not always easy to find good people for it.
So I have done a fair bit more stitching in the last month than I thought I would. I thought my free time would actually go to playing the new expansion of WoW. But my poor old computer is so slow that playing is more frustrating than fun. I have ordered a new PC but I will likely receive it in the beginning of August. Work has been hectic, but stitching is a great way to destress, so thats what I have been doing.
I took these pictures last week already, but still showing these as I finally took a picture of the back of it too.




It would really help in so many cases,
to protect the patterns and not have to print them out repeatedly.
Even if no moisture gets on them, patterns still show wear and tear
after folding them just a few times. Laminating is the perfect
solution! Also helps if you want to make the same thing at a later
date.
And being able to mark on the patterns
is a great idea! I've usually been taking scrap pieces of paper and
making notations for every row that I do, as I like to remake
favorite patterns in different colors, but having the markers on
laminate would be even better! 
Janie,
Welcome!
You've come to the right place. I'm
also a bead addict. Those little tiny bits of glass are so
controlling, aren't they? Once you meet them, your life is no
longer your own! 
Seriously, feel free to post some pics of your work so we can all drool!

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