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I've made a pattern and it was emailed to me but I'm having a problem. I'm trying to get the whole graph on 1 page and I have no idea how to do it. Also, do I need to have my pattern here on switchboard? My aunt was a famous quilter and I want to make her award winning quilt into a crocheted blanket. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much for all the useful information. I was excited about doing a graphghan that I started the one for my son's father. It's so long I think 150 stitches is more than enough.
I could definitely use the graphics program. If I can get a better image my current WIP will be set aside. I have a feeling I'm going to love this site a little too much!! 😆😆
Melanie,
Hahaha.. I can picture you going to the store for a new washer.. And when the guy standing there asks you what you are looking for, your only answer will be: "it MUST have a GOOD wool program" none of the other things matters, as long as it has a good wol program..
On my machine, I can make the settings my self.. So I will put in on the wool program, and then I will shut of the centrifugal thingy.. :p As I said, it works like a charm..
My mother had simply forgot to tell me.. Even though she was laughing at me, I laughed harder and longer, since it was not I who knitted the damned thing :p
She made a new one a couple of days later though..
The Oslo sweaters are really quick to make.. I does not take her more than 2-4 days to make one.. Then again, the boys are not that big yet.. I'm sure it will take longer when they are 14-15 years old :p
Hugs,
Line
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I've made a pattern and it was emailed to me but I'm having a problem. I'm trying to get the whole graph on 1 page and I have no idea how to do it. Also, do I need to have my pattern here on switchboard? My aunt was a famous quilter and I want to make her award winning quilt into a crocheted blanket. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Sirdroid,
LOL! No need to suck
up, we'll answer you anyway!
Okay, a couple
of things I can think of:
Are you using
"Black and White" or "Shades of Gray"? Those are both very
different.
Another important thing is not to
use the freePatternWizard as a graphics program. If you're working
with an image that's, say, 5000 pixels x 5000 pixels and you bring
it down to the default of 80, it won't reduce the image size for
you; it will simply try to pick out 80 pixels. That's best off done
first in a graphics program. There are two powerful ones I can
recommend (free!) if you're using a PC. You're best off reducing
the image to the size of what you're trying to make, so if it's 80
stitches wide, you need to make it 80 pixels wide using a graphics
program first.
This may be a bit dicey,
though, since a jpg format, if that's what you have, already has
colors added to it. Resizing the image will add more colors. So
it's not as simple as having a black & white image and
reducing it to make a smaller black & white image. Certain
file formats (such as GIF) are better than others, but simply
changing an image from one format to a better one doesn't actually
improve the image as much as it only changes the format...with all
of the extraneous colors already in it.
So
my first suggestion is to decide what size across you want the item
to be, take the image and run it through a graphics program,
resizing it to the finished size (number of stitches = pixels) you
want, remove the extraneous colors you'll be able to see by zooming
in and then try it out with the freePatternWizard, being sure to
set the number of pixels in #6 to the number of stitches you want
across (so if you want 100 stitches, your image will be 100 pixels
wide which will become 100 stitches across). What you'll actually
see in your graphics program is what the freePatternWizard will
see.
Oooh, we're
Flintstones fans here, too! LOL, Fred and Barney were pretty good
actors...wonder whatever happened to them?
Thank you so much for all the useful information. I was excited about doing a graphghan that I started the one for my son's father. It's so long I think 150 stitches is more than enough.
I could definitely use the graphics program. If I can get a better image my current WIP will be set aside. I have a feeling I'm going to love this site a little too much!! 😆😆
Melanie,
Hahaha.. I can picture you going to the store for a new washer.. And when the guy standing there asks you what you are looking for, your only answer will be: "it MUST have a GOOD wool program" none of the other things matters, as long as it has a good wol program..
On my machine, I can make the settings my self.. So I will put in on the wool program, and then I will shut of the centrifugal thingy.. :p As I said, it works like a charm..
My mother had simply forgot to tell me.. Even though she was laughing at me, I laughed harder and longer, since it was not I who knitted the damned thing :p
She made a new one a couple of days later though..
The Oslo sweaters are really quick to make.. I does not take her more than 2-4 days to make one.. Then again, the boys are not that big yet.. I'm sure it will take longer when they are 14-15 years old :p
Hugs,
Line
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