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Hi,
This program is so easy to use. FYI, MacWinStitch program for CrossStitch is no longer supported. Only Mac works.
Sorry this took so long! Here is the July Cupcake. I had finished evrything but was not sure what color I wanted for the outline. But then I found some rainbow metallic floss and thought that it would look just like fireworks! I love how it turned out.
August is almost done, I just need to get the red for the cherry and then I can finish it. In the meantime, I will start on September.
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Hi,
This program is so easy to use. FYI, MacWinStitch program for CrossStitch is no longer supported. Only Mac works.
GlMack,
Welcome! 
Just to
clarify, are you trying to make your own pattern from an image into
a square pattern?
The difficulty is likely
that our software doesn't allow you to designate numbers for rows.
That was originally done because we didn't want people getting
skewed patterns that were either truncated or just too
long.
This will change with a later version
of the software, but in the meantime, it still won't allow you to
set the number of rows, only the number of stitches.
What makes it more complex with crochet, as opposed to
cross stitch, is crochet stitches are not square.
What I can suggest is to add plain borders to your
design beforehand, so that when you run it through the
freePatternWizard it has a better chance of making it square, so
that even though the number of rows or stitches might not be
exactly what you want, the system will "see" it as a square design.
In other words, if you have something that you make square to begin
with, say, 80x80 pixels instead of 80x65, you have a better chance
of getting a square pattern.
Hope that
helps!
Ksulliv,
Sorry, I think I said
that wrong! 
What I
meant is that if it's a small enough piece, you might be able to
get away with knitting it as is, even though your stitches will be
rectangular while the cross stitch chart has square
stitches.
But over a larger piece it will
become more obvious. So it depends on how large your chart is, and
then there's no rule of how big is too big. It's unfortunately just
plain old trial and error. 
A Chewbacca
pattern would be more difficult than, say, something abstract,
because if it's abstract you wouldn't notice the skewing. But with
something as recognizable as Chewbacca, that's hard to predict.
Sorry this took so long! Here is the July Cupcake. I had finished evrything but was not sure what color I wanted for the outline. But then I found some rainbow metallic floss and thought that it would look just like fireworks! I love how it turned out.
August is almost done, I just need to get the red for the cherry and then I can finish it. In the meantime, I will start on September.
Buggg66,
Welcome!
What a cool
design! 
The first
thought that occurred to me is the font is too thin to do more than
blob up, as you can see. What the freePatternWizard isn't (at the
moment) is an editor. It looks at anything made of basic thin lines
and doesn't really know what to do with it.
The font here is actually more suitable to backstitch,
which we don't offer at this time, though it's in our
plans.
The next thing is about your image.
What file format is it in? If it's in jpg, the format will have
shades of other colors in it and extraneous characters you can't
really see just by looking at it. This will confuse the
freePatternWizard, which will take the colors it sees and "report"
them as those other colors, as in different shades of red in this
case.
The best formats to use are gif and
png, because those don't introduce extraneous colors. But you can't
go from a saved jpg to a gif, because the colors are already there
in the file.
Next, are you sending an image
that is pixel-to-stitch, e.g., 50 pixels across = 50 stitches
across? Since the freePatternWizard isn't an actual editor, if you
don't send it an image like that first, it will do its best as it
tries to expand or contract the image, but the results won't be
great.
Finally, you also need to pay
attention to thin lines here, too. If your image is set (for
example) for 50 pixels as opposed to 200, a thinner line or smaller
dot may disappear, being too thin or small for the
freePatternWizard.
The good news is that
it's not at all impossible to work with such an image; mostly, you
need to be mindful of what's going on with the various things
mentioned above for a good result.
Hope that
helps!
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