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New! The Herrschner's Worsted Palette - thank you to BetwixtTheStitch!
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Is there a way to remove the white background symbol when doing cross stitch?
I have been looking for a pattern for an Alabama crochet blanket. I would like to create one of my own. Is the pattern wizard easy? I live in Tennessee but so close to the Alabama state line that we shop there a lot. I hope to learn a lot here and have fun.
Nicola,
Welcome!
LOL, I'm going to mention that dirty phrase here...gauge swatch. That will be key to figuring out what size yarn and hook you're going to use. My best suggestion is to start with worsted weight and a hook that will give you stitches that aren't too large or too small. Make a gauge swatch and then determine how many stitches and rows per inch; divide those numbers into the numbers of stitches and rows in your pattern, and that will determine approximate finished size. (I say approximate because, of course, gauge can be fickle, which is where blocking comes in.)
I know, most people (myself included) despise gauge swatches, but they're a necessary evil, bwahahahahaha!
Hi Stacy, and welcome.
I'm up in north Tx. I've been using this site for a few years and love it.
I can tell you that the more detail your image has, the larger you need to make your graph or you will start losing the detail.
Hope that helps.
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Is there a way to remove the white background symbol when doing cross stitch?
Whiffle,
Welcome!
Thank you for
your suggestion!
We've never provided this
capability, as we've never had such a request before, but we can
make that feature available. I can't give you a specific time
frame, but we can include it in a future update.
I have been looking for a pattern for an Alabama crochet blanket. I would like to create one of my own. Is the pattern wizard easy? I live in Tennessee but so close to the Alabama state line that we shop there a lot. I hope to learn a lot here and have fun.
Nicola,
Welcome!
LOL, I'm going to mention that dirty phrase here...gauge swatch. That will be key to figuring out what size yarn and hook you're going to use. My best suggestion is to start with worsted weight and a hook that will give you stitches that aren't too large or too small. Make a gauge swatch and then determine how many stitches and rows per inch; divide those numbers into the numbers of stitches and rows in your pattern, and that will determine approximate finished size. (I say approximate because, of course, gauge can be fickle, which is where blocking comes in.)
I know, most people (myself included) despise gauge swatches, but they're a necessary evil, bwahahahahaha!
Hi Stacy, and welcome.
I'm up in north Tx. I've been using this site for a few years and love it.
I can tell you that the more detail your image has, the larger you need to make your graph or you will start losing the detail.
Hope that helps.
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