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I have a lot of pieces here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=tragicprincess&set=a.634858983277362
Would love any ideas and if you guys want any patterns I've made
Sure, it's item# 21200
Hi Terry,
I did the exact same thing too..ran the re-designed image as it using actual pixels & it was fine...sorry i really should have mentioned that. The errant colors came up when I changed from using size as the actual pixel in image to the 155 through the program. That's when they should up...
I guess what I'm having trouble process in my non-computer oriented brain is if the image is clean going into the program, then why doesn't it stay that way during the actual conversion? Shouldn't that size reduction be compensated for somehow within the software? Like I said, I really don't understand much about computer stuff but is this something like what you explained in anb earlier message about photo editing programs manipulating colors?
I only did image #2 for my own use..i really don't don't why I tried to muddle the process with it...
As I explained before, working on such a small canvas is almost impossible for me. With the program I use, when I enter the pixel sizes, that's the exact size of the image I get. Something so small makes it quite difficult to get detail right. I would think it might prove challenging for a few others?
If there anything you can do in the future to get the software to compensate for a size change? In the interim, I may have to borrow my brother's desktop to design instead. He's got these absolutely huge monitors that may show that small image I see on my laptop just a bit bigger? At least I hope... I'll figure something out...
But I do appreciate all your help!
Kathy
This is the current beading project I am working on. It is going to be a tapestry for a good friend of mine who asked me to create him a beaded vulture. He lives in New Mexico and makes small wooded tapestry hand looms and tools for them and many other looming needs. My friend Jim Hokett appreciates what vultures do for the world as clean up crew. He collects vulture memorabilia and wanted something special to add to his collection. He merely wanted a 5"X5" beaded vulture, but me being me decided that would not do. So now I am creating this "monster" of a tapestry for him. I used 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads to create the vulture.
I first beaded the vulture itself in the peyote stitch finishing the edges and bottom part of his beak in brick stitch since peyote does not lend itself to form curves in a way I needed it to. The middle pic is the completed vulture which measures 9 1/2" across at its widest and 6" top to bottom at its widest. I decided to create a background to compliment the vulture in loom stitch. It is 20" wide and will be at least 17" high when finished. The height will be determined by what I feel gives it the look I am stirving for. Once the background is finished I will applique the vulture to the right bottom corner. The first pic shows what I have done so far on the background witht eh vulture temporarily placed in its position with double sided sticky tape.
At present I have 32 lines of beading done on the background and estimate it will take 250 lines in all to complete it. It is 310 beads wide using 11/0 seed beads of mix brands. I started this project last yr in Oct and hopefully be finished some time this summer, August at the very least. It takes me 1 1/2 to 2 hours to pick up a line of beads and sew them down for the background. I am using my 38" Zeus Mirrix loom, my other beading looms were not wide enough to use.
The 3rd pic shows the small photo Jim sent me he wanted the vulture to resemble. I did the best I could to recreate the colors in his head. Given I had to order all the Miyuki beads for thsi project I was at the mercy of thinking a color was perfect only to get it in and see it was still not what I needed. After ordering various reds and pinks a third time I gave up and went with what I had. Colors of beads look very different on a computer monitor than in person. I only have the craft shain stores in my area which do not carry Miyuki Delicas, so buying in person was not an option.
I'm working on yet another 10 stitch blanket but instead of 10 stitches i'm using 20. I have gotten it to the right width but now I need to add some height to it. I'm planning on binding it off and then try to get the height but I want to use a different amount of stitches. Can any one tell me how to add on to a bound off project? Like do I pick up the desired amount of stitches and then work the corner, or do I go from the very edge and create the amount of stitches I want and then pick up the stitch as you normally would for a 10 stitch?
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