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The third one will be.
Hopefully I will get my butt in gear and
post some things tomorrow...lolPat,
Welcome!
No worries...you're not doing anything wrong!
You could use the freePatternWizard to make bracelet patterns if you work with a small enough image. If you're going to start with a large image, though, you're correct, the patterns would be much too large.
Depending on your image, you could try reducing it in a graphics program (the freePatternWizard isn't a graphics program, so it's really best to use a proper graphics program to resize your image first) to the width you want (e.g., stitches across) and an approximate height. In the current version of the freePatternWizard you can't adjust the vertical size (height/number of rows) because the program currently does that for you; it was originally programmed that way so people wouldn't skew their patterns. With the version that's in development now there will be editing functions and you'll be able to set the height.
Meanwhile, if you want to experiment with resizing images and you're using a PC I'll be happy to give you links to two free and powerful graphics programs to use for this purpose. (I can't tell you how to use them, though, because I use an ancient Paint Shop Pro from something like, gulp, 1998.)
I totally understand. The good thing about making your own is that you can adapt whatever pattern you're working to suit your own tastes. I will keep this in mind when I get to that phase of my planning of projects.
Unfortunately, the migraines are why I lost my job first week of December. I've been having headaches nearly daily for more than a year now. The VA [where I get my medical care] has done testing, but they haven't found the root cause ... yet. They told me that I'm allergic to pork and milk, but cutting these items from my diet hasn't really made much of a difference. [Can't figure out why all of a sudden after 50+ years I would become allergic to these items?? Doesn't make sense to me, but hey, it was worth trying if it would have gotten rid of the migraines]The really bad ones like the one I am still battling on/off], usually last at least three days, then they just tape down to a tolerable headache, which I have most days. On the days when they're not extremely debilitating, I try to work through them as best as I can; otherwise, I'm usually bed-ridden due to extreme nausea and extreme sensitivity to light, sounds, smells, etc. Very frustrating.
They finally gave me a migraine medication which the pharmacist said was "really good" ... but it doesn't touch the pain ... at all ... When I was in the hospital [for the 2nd time in a year] last August for diverticulitis, the pain meds they gave me for the diverticulitis was really good at getting rid of the pain in my gut, but it didn't touch the migraine pain at all, either. I just do what I can do and rest when I can't do.
Albion,
Welcome! Hope you like the freePatternWizard. Please let us know if you have any questions.
In the meantime, feel free to post pics of your work...we love to drool!
Oooh, thank you for sharing the link...that's such an excellent tutorial! Love the idea of doing that, and there are zillions of completely free fonts out there which would be useful for such a project! I can think of a few applications where monograms would turn out very handy.
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