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1st I love this program... I'm so glad I found it... But I am trying to make a few throw blankets and a couple queen sized blankets.... Is there a way to get a larger graph? 150 stitches is an awfully small blanket...
Hi, Holly.
Here are a few possible causes of this:
1. Your image is in the .jpg format. This image format, unless saved without compression, commonly has stray pixels, often in subtle off-colors.
2. You're starting with a large image and the freePatternWizard is reducing it to a smaller size that you specify. Reducing images can often introduce unwanted pixels or colors.
3. Your image may actually include pixels of other colors that are not apparent unless you enlarge it a lot. I recently received a black and white image from a user and she was asking why the program gave her a bunch of colors in addition to shades of gray. I magnified the image 1200 times and there were hundreds and hundreds of pixels that were yellow, red, green, blue, and various other colors. The freePatternWizard sees these colors and considers them part of the image so it tries to include these in the final image.
There are other possible causes of stray colors but these are some of the more common ones.
Here are a few potential things you can do to deal with the issue:
This almost always creates a perfect, clean chart.
Hope this helps.
Terry
Ok thank you its to bad that we can't enlarge the pictures huh?
I once made a case for my hooks... But then I bought more hooks..
So I had to make a new case, for the new hooks..
This is it so far:
I found the pattern here: http://www.lonnies.dk/2015/haekle-opskrift-haeklenaale-etui/
Melissa,
Welcome!
First, the size you make your blanket depends on your intended purpose for the blanket. Perhaps you'd like to make a lapghan, or maybe you want to make something very large, to fit a queen or king size bed. The best way to find a guide to the size you want is to do a search for measurements...many sites have basic guidelines of how large to make things like lapghans, full size blankets, king size blankets, etc.
Then what you'll need to do is make a swatch, since the number of stitches you'll use will be dependent on the size of your hook, fiber and stitches, e.g., your gauge. When you know how many stitches per inch with your chosen stitch, fiber and hook, you can then calculate out how many stitches you'll need for your blanket.
You would then take the number of stitches per inch as determined by your swatch and multiply it by the number of inches desired for your blanket. That will give you the measurement across (unless you're going to work side to side, but here I'm going to assume you'll be working bottom to top). Then you'd work that number of stitches until you reach the length desired.
I wish I could give you different advice besides making a swatch - after all, nobody likes to do those things! - but your swatch will be your basic guide for your entire project, so it's an extremely important step.
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1st I love this program... I'm so glad I found it... But I am trying to make a few throw blankets and a couple queen sized blankets.... Is there a way to get a larger graph? 150 stitches is an awfully small blanket...
Hi, Holly.
Here are a few possible causes of this:
1. Your image is in the .jpg format. This image format, unless saved without compression, commonly has stray pixels, often in subtle off-colors.
2. You're starting with a large image and the freePatternWizard is reducing it to a smaller size that you specify. Reducing images can often introduce unwanted pixels or colors.
3. Your image may actually include pixels of other colors that are not apparent unless you enlarge it a lot. I recently received a black and white image from a user and she was asking why the program gave her a bunch of colors in addition to shades of gray. I magnified the image 1200 times and there were hundreds and hundreds of pixels that were yellow, red, green, blue, and various other colors. The freePatternWizard sees these colors and considers them part of the image so it tries to include these in the final image.
There are other possible causes of stray colors but these are some of the more common ones.
Here are a few potential things you can do to deal with the issue:
Try making adjustments in Section 8:
- "Stray pixel cleanup" in section 8 can sometimes help. Set this to "light", "medium", or "heavy" to see if it helps.
- Try turning on the "Antialias" feature
- Turn up the brightness a little
- Turn down the contrast a bit
- Set the "Smoothness" setting toward the "Smoother"
- Turn up the "Color Sensitivity"
- Some combination of the above
This almost always creates a perfect, clean chart.
Hope this helps.
Terry
Ok thank you its to bad that we can't enlarge the pictures huh?
I once made a case for my hooks... But then I bought more hooks..
So I had to make a new case, for the new hooks..
This is it so far:
I found the pattern here: http://www.lonnies.dk/2015/haekle-opskrift-haeklenaale-etui/
Melissa,
Welcome!
First, the size you make your blanket depends on your intended purpose for the blanket. Perhaps you'd like to make a lapghan, or maybe you want to make something very large, to fit a queen or king size bed. The best way to find a guide to the size you want is to do a search for measurements...many sites have basic guidelines of how large to make things like lapghans, full size blankets, king size blankets, etc.
Then what you'll need to do is make a swatch, since the number of stitches you'll use will be dependent on the size of your hook, fiber and stitches, e.g., your gauge. When you know how many stitches per inch with your chosen stitch, fiber and hook, you can then calculate out how many stitches you'll need for your blanket.
You would then take the number of stitches per inch as determined by your swatch and multiply it by the number of inches desired for your blanket. That will give you the measurement across (unless you're going to work side to side, but here I'm going to assume you'll be working bottom to top). Then you'd work that number of stitches until you reach the length desired.
I wish I could give you different advice besides making a swatch - after all, nobody likes to do those things! - but your swatch will be your basic guide for your entire project, so it's an extremely important step.
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