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Haha yes! I have three overflowing folders of them that weigh around five pounds each. I promise you that I am not exaggerating! I agree that it is hard at first but soon come naturally. My best cross-stitch friend, who I introduced to cross stitch, figured it out before I did-just by reading instructions! Thank you for your kind post.
Morning Melanie,
Thanks for the compliments. No worries with when you get back to me. I too will be busy for the next few days~~4 to be exact~~but, not in a fun way. Nope, I have to go back to work which is a 4 on & 4 off weekly drudgery. I work nights and on work days/nights I have no time for fun things like beading or embroidery.
I will be going to bed soon for my "work nap", I
get up every work day at 2pm. I live 50 miles from work, so I get
very little sleep ont the 4 work days. Bummer, but we like to eat
& I love to spend money on my craft fetishes. 
I can work in square stitch too, was the first stitch I learned when I first started beading at the age of 19 a ton of yrs ago. At the time I couldn't afford a loom or good beads. I had to buy the cheap beads from the 5 & 10 variety store in the small town I grew up in. I used white cotton thread from my Mom's sewing stash. It was a bear to keep from knotting up every other line of beading. During those early beading yrs I developed my own way of picking up a whole line of beads and sewing them down 2 at a time in my own square stitch way. I don't have any diagrams of the technique and haven't worked in that style in over 25 yrs or more. My reason for creating my style of picking up a line of beads at a time was I hated picking up one bead at a time back then. Now it doesn't bother me to pick one at a time. And I loved being able to cut the beaded projects and not losing all the beads too. Had to do that a time or two when some bead color kept bugging me til I went back and cut the line it was in out and corrected it. That was why I never learned how to loom bead back then even tho after I married my hubby bought me a simple Native American style loom. He and our son used it, but I stayed away from it. Now I have 4 looms I bought especially for loom beading. Do I have time to work on all of them at one time? Not a chance!!
The bead in the center of the star is a piece of turquoise in a sort of teardrop shape. It a piece, from some left over I bought yrs ago for use in past beading projects. The pieces in the loop are a few more like it along with turquoise colored 11/0 Delica beads.
Thanks for the offer in helping with PDFs. When I have time to get back to creating future projects I will let you know if I run into problems. I'm not very experienced in the beading program, but as I use them I am getting better.
Gotta' go, have a few things to do before I turn in for my nap. Have a great day and I will be back in a few days. And YAY I only have 45 more lines to go on the vulture loomed background to finish. Then I can begin the tedious part I hate most~~those 311 warp strings!! Just one reason I don't like loom beading.
Welcome!
We don't offer C2C as a feature at this time, as it's currently in development. Unfortunately, I don't have a time frame as to when it will become available, but please keep watching for it!
Piddy,
Hi! Portrait mode is to work a vertical rectangular piece (as in a portrait), landscape is to work it as a horizontal rectangular piece (a la a landscape).
I'm not sure what you're asking, so my apologies. Please clarify. Are you talking about working your piece side to side, your rows going from bottom to top as a vertical rectangle, or are you planning on working it bottom to top, so to speak, with your rows going side to side, as a horizontal rectangular piece? Either way it doesn't matter, as long as you send it through the way you'll be working it.
You just need to be sure your stitches
are keyed for short, wide crochet stitches if you're using standard
single crochet. 
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