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Thank you for your quick response. I admit it, I was panicking yesterday as this is the first complicated loomed piece I've done, meaning one with more than 5 colors. And it looked like I was going to have to buy bushels of beads to weave it.
I guess I'm wondering if you add new colors as Miyuki puts them out. While I thought I had a lot of different blue beads (overe 100 colors) I only had two colors that the program gave me. Yes, I know there's many more colors than that, but I was hoping the odds were in my favor that I wouldn't have to buy 58 new colors of seed beads. Plus it seemed like the colors I did have were higher numbers than those on the pattern. It could be coincidence. And another of Life's little jokes.
Thank you again.
Amandy
Oooh, SO CUTE!
Love it!
Mary,
Welcome!
I'm not sure what's going wrong for you, but one thing I've found when making graphs is to use an image that will work as closely as a 1:1 basis as possible, meaning 1 pixel = 1 stitch. I also look for better
quality file formats, if possible. JPG isn't a very good
one; GIF or PNG are better. Which doesn't mean you can't
have a decent file in JPG format, just that for the most part JPGs
aren't as good quality as GIF or PNG.
If the colors are giving you a problem, try to remember that yarn colors are very limited. Unlike cotton floss or beads, which give hundreds of choices and many different shaded color palettes, yarn is limited to a certain number of colors per line and manufacturer. Unfortunately, the reason manufacturers don't offer more choices is likely because it wouldn't be cost effective to, for instance, market 10 different greens, as they very likely wouldn't sell many of certain green shades.
Hope that helps!
Aabye,
thank you so much for responding. Goodness it took me a minute to figure out where I had asked the question. I might make my next graphghan out of cotton to see if I like it or not. Never know till you try, right? It won't be till next year for I am currently working on two large graphghans and they will be finished tentavely right before christmas. One for my husband and one for my son.
By the way I love the colors picked for the blanket, they look so good together, very pretty.
Again, thank you so much.
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Terri,
Welcome!
There is a
tutorial on how to fit more stitches on a page. It's not
recommended to use a single page, as the pattern might print out
much too small, but of course you're free to
experiment.
This link shows the different
paper sizes available:
https://stitchboard.com/community/2.0/message.php?t=1326&c=23&b=199
and this one is the tutorial to change the number of
stitches (it's also linked in the above message):
https://stitchboard.com/community/2.0/message.php?t=1325&c=23&b=199
I'm not sure what you're asking about having your
pattern here on Stitchboard. If you want to make a pattern with our
software, then yes, you must use Stitchboard's freePatternWizard
here. There's nothing to install, which means it's all stored by
us, not you!
What a wonderful idea to make
your aunt's quilt into a crocheted blanket!
Thank you for your quick response. I admit it, I was panicking yesterday as this is the first complicated loomed piece I've done, meaning one with more than 5 colors. And it looked like I was going to have to buy bushels of beads to weave it.
I guess I'm wondering if you add new colors as Miyuki puts them out. While I thought I had a lot of different blue beads (overe 100 colors) I only had two colors that the program gave me. Yes, I know there's many more colors than that, but I was hoping the odds were in my favor that I wouldn't have to buy 58 new colors of seed beads. Plus it seemed like the colors I did have were higher numbers than those on the pattern. It could be coincidence. And another of Life's little jokes.
Thank you again.
Amandy
Oooh, SO CUTE!
Love it!
Mary,
Welcome!
I'm not sure what's going wrong for you, but one thing I've found when making graphs is to use an image that will work as closely as a 1:1 basis as possible, meaning 1 pixel = 1 stitch.
I also look for better
quality file formats, if possible. JPG isn't a very good
one; GIF or PNG are better. Which doesn't mean you can't
have a decent file in JPG format, just that for the most part JPGs
aren't as good quality as GIF or PNG.If the colors are giving you a problem, try to remember that yarn colors are very limited. Unlike cotton floss or beads, which give hundreds of choices and many different shaded color palettes, yarn is limited to a certain number of colors per line and manufacturer. Unfortunately, the reason manufacturers don't offer more choices is likely because it wouldn't be cost effective to, for instance, market 10 different greens, as they very likely wouldn't sell many of certain green shades.
Hope that helps!
Aabye,
thank you so much for responding. Goodness it took me a minute to figure out where I had asked the question. I might make my next graphghan out of cotton to see if I like it or not. Never know till you try, right? It won't be till next year for I am currently working on two large graphghans and they will be finished tentavely right before christmas. One for my husband and one for my son.
By the way I love the colors picked for the blanket, they look so good together, very pretty.
Again, thank you so much.
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