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New! The Herrschner's Worsted Palette - thank you to BetwixtTheStitch!
New! We've just added the palette for Deborah Norville Everyday Yarn! If you knit and/or crochet, this is for you. This is a beautiful yarn with a nice feel to it, a good alternative in worsted weight acrylic! (Thank you again to BetwixtTheStitch!)
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Welcome to Stitchboard! Feel free to sit and stay awhile. Check out our new Premier features. In addition to the ability to create larger patterns (up to 500 stitches wide), illusion knitting and private labeling (no more worries about editing those pesky and messy PDFs), we've just introduced Filet Crochet, our most popular request! We have many more features planned, too!
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I'm new here, so I'm not sure if this is allowed - please delete if it isn't!!
I've just generated a pattern with the generator (so cool!) but I'm struggling with fair isle knitting. I'm trying to make a scarf in 3 colors but I'm getting a lot of bunching and can't get it all to lie flat. I feel like I'm most successful holding two colors continental and the third, less used color, in my right hand, but it's still happening. Hints? Good videos to watch? Help!!!
Kathy,
I do have a comment and 2 questions.
First, I always suggest using a pre-sized image that ideally is the number of pixels across that matches the desired number of stitches across. Sending an image that's 4000 pixels across and having the program reduce it to a much smaller figure will certainly introduce unwanted colors. This is just a byproduct of re-sizing. So if you want your pattern to be 300 stitches across, ideally re-size your image to 300 pixels across before sending it to the PatternWizard. This also allows you to be sure the image you send is as clean as possible.
One question is whether you're manually selecting the desired colors. The update I'll be turning on soon corrects a problem relating to manual colors.
My other question is what type of image are you sending to the program? (.jpg, .gif, etc.)
Terry
Nystanna,
Welcome!
Wow, married 16 years...that's fantastic!
I'm sure everyone will love your handmade gifts.
So glad you've found the freePatternWizard helpful! Feel free to post some photos of any of your work, even if it wasn't created with the freePatternWizard...we love to drool!
Hi, tnelson.
Since I'm the one doing the development, debugging, and initial testing, I can tell you that it's coming along.
In February I completely rewrote the graphics engine that does the bulk of the processing work. I'll probably turn this on for Crochet, Cross Stitch, and Knitting first. There hopefully won't be any apparent operational differences (except maybe faster processing and possibly a bit fewer stray pixels). After some initial use by everyone, I'll enable it for Beaders.
This new graphics engine makes the live editor much easier and faster to use.
As Melanie pointed out, browser compatibility is always our concern and I've had to make changes to code or even the way a function works just to be sure everyone can use it without upgrading their browser. And this especially relates to our Premier features (although we love people using the program even if they don't subscribe to anything!) I don't want to have to tell people, "Oh, this only works if you have the most recent version of the browser." In most cases I do have workarounds that allow functionality even with older browsers.
The live edit version also has a whole new look and that's all part of the process. We're thinking of always having a "classic version" (looking kind of like it does today), and then the new version. We would allow people to switch between them depending on what they're working on.
As I get a bit closer to opening the live edit feature, we may ask for some volunteers to beta test it.
So in answer to your question, "we're working on it". I have a handful of new things to finish up and make live before spending most of my time on the live version. We've seen a need for this since day one!
Terry
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I'm new here, so I'm not sure if this is allowed - please delete if it isn't!!
I've just generated a pattern with the generator (so cool!) but I'm struggling with fair isle knitting. I'm trying to make a scarf in 3 colors but I'm getting a lot of bunching and can't get it all to lie flat. I feel like I'm most successful holding two colors continental and the third, less used color, in my right hand, but it's still happening. Hints? Good videos to watch? Help!!!
Kathy,
I do have a comment and 2 questions.
First, I always suggest using a pre-sized image that ideally is the number of pixels across that matches the desired number of stitches across. Sending an image that's 4000 pixels across and having the program reduce it to a much smaller figure will certainly introduce unwanted colors. This is just a byproduct of re-sizing. So if you want your pattern to be 300 stitches across, ideally re-size your image to 300 pixels across before sending it to the PatternWizard. This also allows you to be sure the image you send is as clean as possible.
One question is whether you're manually selecting the desired colors. The update I'll be turning on soon corrects a problem relating to manual colors.
My other question is what type of image are you sending to the program? (.jpg, .gif, etc.)
Terry
Nystanna,
Welcome!
Wow, married 16 years...that's fantastic!
I'm sure everyone will love your handmade gifts.
So glad you've found the freePatternWizard helpful! Feel free to post some photos of any of your work, even if it wasn't created with the freePatternWizard...we love to drool!
Hi, tnelson.
Since I'm the one doing the development, debugging, and initial testing, I can tell you that it's coming along.
In February I completely rewrote the graphics engine that does the bulk of the processing work. I'll probably turn this on for Crochet, Cross Stitch, and Knitting first. There hopefully won't be any apparent operational differences (except maybe faster processing and possibly a bit fewer stray pixels). After some initial use by everyone, I'll enable it for Beaders.
This new graphics engine makes the live editor much easier and faster to use.
As Melanie pointed out, browser compatibility is always our concern and I've had to make changes to code or even the way a function works just to be sure everyone can use it without upgrading their browser. And this especially relates to our Premier features (although we love people using the program even if they don't subscribe to anything!) I don't want to have to tell people, "Oh, this only works if you have the most recent version of the browser." In most cases I do have workarounds that allow functionality even with older browsers.
The live edit version also has a whole new look and that's all part of the process. We're thinking of always having a "classic version" (looking kind of like it does today), and then the new version. We would allow people to switch between them depending on what they're working on.
As I get a bit closer to opening the live edit feature, we may ask for some volunteers to beta test it.
So in answer to your question, "we're working on it". I have a handful of new things to finish up and make live before spending most of my time on the live version. We've seen a need for this since day one!
Terry
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You've done nothing wrong; the artwork button isn't currently available.
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