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JollyJah,

To upload an image here, if you're on a computer, click on the image of the tree from the top line. That will allow you to browse your files and find the correct one to upload.

HTH!

I started March today, and will update with pictures once I get further along.
Also, a note for the January cupcake: I recomend doing the top snowflake in one strand, and the small sparkles on the liner with two strands.

Hi, I'm Bryon from Iowa.

I am not a beader but my wife is. She does almost exclusively one-drop peyote stitching (hope I'm saying that right). Since I am the computer person of the family I help her download patterns and generally try to assist her.

One of the difficulties I saw her struggle with is keeping her place in a printed pattern. She had to continuously move her focus back and forth from her beaded work back to find her location in the pattern. She did a wonderful job but I always thought that it was an error-prone process. So I made a web page that displayed her patterns and spoke the color of the next bead(s) to her. All she had to do was hit the space bar on our laptop and the next bead was told to her. The space bar is pretty easy to find without shifting your eyes or your concentration too much. Since many modern web browsers have built-in speech capability, this was moderately easy.

Then I came across your site and saw that you allowed your users to create their own patterns. I think it would be really neat if a person could create a pattern with the Pattern Wizard and have their computer speak the pattern to them.

I'm not there yet but I thought you might be curious to see what I have so far. It you go to https://wiscons.com/BeadReader/ you can see we have a number of patterns in a format my reader understands. Since many of the patterns are purchased and the creator asked they not be shared I have locked them. But several are free and you could see and hear how everything works.

Let me know if you think there are any practical possibilities.

Bryon