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Pearllex,
Welcome!
I'm guessing you're working on a crochet pattern (as opposed to knitting) and you've chosen to work a word chart instead of a grid?
If that's correct, your first row and all subsequent odd rows will be on the right side, as is normal in any crochet pattern.
And yes, you're correct that the pattern is worked from the bottom up.
Devine,
I just posted an answer in the other spot you asked about this. My answer is here.
Basically I asked if it would be ok to send me your image and I can try it out, hopefully find settings that work, and if I find there's a problem in the program, can then fix it.
If you want to try this, let me know and I'll send you an email to which you can reply and attach your image.
Terry
Hello everybody, i'm new and i am crazy with the pattern wizard, because i love filet crochet.
Spanish is my first language so, excuse my mistakes.
Hi! If I'm understanding your issue correctly, this is what I believe the problem is. First, you've chosen crochet, and unless you're specifically using a square cross stitch to make patterns (and unless your gauge is perfectly square), your pixels will not be a direct 1:1 ratio. Instead, the system is keeping your correct aspect ratio and making the pattern the correct number of stitches x rows that will keep your image from becoming distorted, while still keeping your stitch horizontal or vertical (depending on stitch type chosen).
The Free Pattern Wizard isn't really made to resize to a specific size both horizontally and vertically...that's why you can only give it the number of stitches across, and not the number of rows. The reason for that is if resizing were allowed, people would think they'd be making a perfectly-sized image, only to discover their image would instead be wildly distorted. Think of a picture of a grazing horse being resized to be longer vertically, only to produce a pattern of a horse with ridiculously long legs and a very long, fat body, or, resized to be wider, as a horse with crazy short little legs and an elongated body!
Unfortunately, the only answer is to work with your image and resize it in a graphics program until it equals the exact dimensions you want. But as you've found, if you change the image to the size you want vertically and horizontally without worrying about the aspect ratio, you run the risk of something like your vertical or horizontal Red Cross being stretched out of proportion.
I would definitely suggest working with your pattern in a graphics program, but understand you may not be able to get it to exactly 240 x 350 stitches. You have to remember that 240 x 350 pixels is not a direct relationship to, say, a stitch that is wider horizontally than vertically, which is what crochet essentially is, unless you're crocheting a stitch that really is turning out perfectly square.
What you could do to compensate is pad your image with a matching or contrasting color on the sides (or top and bottom), designating the Free Pattern Wizard to produce an image 240 stitches wide, and then the Free Pattern Wizard should compensate by, yes, adding the stripes, but then your image will compensate accordingly. All you'd really have to do then is figure out how to work it out to your correct dimensions with the padded color.
I'm guessing it will take a bit of messing around with the image, but if you do pad it, you won't get the flag image exactly the way you want it, but you'll get it with the correct aspect ratio.
If you don't have a graphics program, there are two free ones available that are quite powerful:
GIMP, which is available here:
https://www.gimp.org/
and paint.net, which is available here:
https://www.getpaint.net/
I hope that isn't too technical or confusing...if it is, please let me know!
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