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FYI I am sherry Michael is my son who is planning to help create patterns for me, they will be his first with software but he draws them out often.
Sue,
I'm so sorry I misunderstood! You don't have to take the 80 blocks, so you can choose, say, 60 or 20. The important thing in that is the freePatternWizard isn't a graphics program, so it's usually best to manipulate your image in a graphics program first, to make it larger or smaller. If you try to use the freePatternWizard to actually resize your image, it will turn into a blob if you're making it too large or too small for the program to handle.
(If this is confusing, I'd say to just try it as is and if the pattern looks too blobby, then you can deal with it.)
If you'd really like to tweak your image with a graphics programs and you're using a Windows PC, I can suggest two very powerful (and free!) programs that will allow you to edit your image.
As for knowing how many blocks, yes, unfortunately this is what I was talking about before. Your gauge is as individual as you, so your gauge is crucial to knowing how many blocks you need for the size you want. And actually, I should have talked about blocks, not stitches, since that's what you're really looking for in this case. Still, you should work a gauge swatch, determine how many blocks per inch. Then you'll know that if you have 4 blocks per inch, multiply that by the number of inches you want. If you want a piece that's 50 inches wide, you'd calculate 50 inches x 4 blocks per inch, giving you 200 blocks needed for your finished pattern.
Unfortunately, it all goes back to those pesky gauge swatches! If you're making something simple, like a scarf, that's a bit more forgiving; you often don't have to work a gauge swatch if you're using a similar fiber/hook as what the designer recommends. But with anything you want to work to a specific size, such as a sweater, gauge is important. Though it's tempting to just start a project without any gauge swatch, you can easily be left with something that's too large or too small.
Sherry,
Thanks again!
Alright thank you for this information. Yes, I would love to test the c2c feature out. I think that would be great
Thank you again
for all of the help and answering my questions.
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Hello Everyone,
I'm new to the
group, and was trying to convert a black, and grey image into a
graph for crocheting. Every time I upload the image it comes out
missing parts of the image. I've resized it in Adobe Illustrator,
saved the PNG as a JPEG, GIF,, not to sure what else to do. - I've
read through a lot of the other comments/questions. Any advice on
this would be great. ( It's a Magic the Gathering lands
image/skull, I'm making a beanie for my son
Thanks,
Kate
FYI I am sherry Michael is my son who is planning to help create patterns for me, they will be his first with software but he draws them out often.
Sue,
I'm so sorry I misunderstood! You don't have to take the 80 blocks, so you can choose, say, 60 or 20. The important thing in that is the freePatternWizard isn't a graphics program, so it's usually best to manipulate your image in a graphics program first, to make it larger or smaller. If you try to use the freePatternWizard to actually resize your image, it will turn into a blob if you're making it too large or too small for the program to handle.
(If this is confusing, I'd say to just try it as is and if the pattern looks too blobby, then you can deal with it.)
If you'd really like to tweak your image with a graphics programs and you're using a Windows PC, I can suggest two very powerful (and free!) programs that will allow you to edit your image.
As for knowing how many blocks, yes, unfortunately this is what I was talking about before. Your gauge is as individual as you, so your gauge is crucial to knowing how many blocks you need for the size you want. And actually, I should have talked about blocks, not stitches, since that's what you're really looking for in this case. Still, you should work a gauge swatch, determine how many blocks per inch. Then you'll know that if you have 4 blocks per inch, multiply that by the number of inches you want. If you want a piece that's 50 inches wide, you'd calculate 50 inches x 4 blocks per inch, giving you 200 blocks needed for your finished pattern.
Unfortunately, it all goes back to those pesky gauge swatches! If you're making something simple, like a scarf, that's a bit more forgiving; you often don't have to work a gauge swatch if you're using a similar fiber/hook as what the designer recommends. But with anything you want to work to a specific size, such as a sweater, gauge is important. Though it's tempting to just start a project without any gauge swatch, you can easily be left with something that's too large or too small.
Sherry,
Thanks again!
Alright thank you for this information. Yes, I would love to test the c2c feature out. I think that would be great
Thank you again
for all of the help and answering my questions. friends
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