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Hi, Loonbeader.
Well I way underestimated the time it would take to re-do the beading function.
There's a new graphics engine that will handle a whole new upcoming version but beading is taking way longer than I planned. Herringbone, loom, and square stitches will work with the new software but I'm still working on brick, peyote, and raw.
Sorry about the delay but please know that I haven't forgotten about it.
I'm also winding up a related project for a large corporate client and once done will hopefully have more time to enhance the software.
Thanks for your understanding!
Terry
Hi everyone!
In June 2019, my grandma gave me a plastic canvas/half cross stitching/needlepoint kit. I was so happy with the result that I bought a cross stitch kit, which I loved even more. Now, almost a year later I am still stitching, with a sickening amount of patterns that are waiting to be stitched. I have a sort of addiction to buying patterns, but the ones I have started are looking good so far. I am so lucky to have cross stitch, especially during this time. Imagine all of the people who have nothing better to do and just sit on their phones all day! At least we get to create beautiful things. I started sewing when I was seven and have always loved to stitch, coming from a long line of tailors. I found Stitchboard, and I am very happy because I was looking for a good photo conversion software--and this is free! I still do plastic canvas/needlepoint, but cross stitching is my favorite. I also do a little knitting and crochet. I very much dislike, howver, when people call my cross stitching "crochet". Does that bother anyone else?
Anyhow, cross stitching is a great way to spend time. People often ask me how I did it, and they refuse to believe me on how simple it is. I made every possible mistake, however. I started at the very corner, not the center, I used all six strands of floss, and, until recently, my stitches were not in the same direction. Read instructions and watch videos first! Besides these painful regrets, cross stitching has enhanced my life and my mood. I am happy to be a part of the stitchboard community: I was looking for good cross-stitch forums and a place to sell my patterns!
-Secoya
Hi Terry!
I got this to work!!!! But, I didn't use your image... I read your newest note & still had the original version of the image that I redesigned (the one that was good). I reopened the file in my editing program, resaved the file but this time as a gif. I ran it through the program but still saw problems so I went back and reread a few more of your messages.
All along I have been using the "light" stray pixel cleanup & the "smooth" option to the max smoothness available, & also choose my colors.
This time, I used the gif again, chose the the pixel option=image pixel, used the basic switchboard pallet, did not designate any restrictions or my own colors, nor did I use the smoothness & stray pixel cleanup. Viola! Perfect word chart. I reran the image again only this time I chose the color & symbol chart just to verify it wasn't picking up errant colors & it isn't. The stitch counts on both the word & graph pdfs are exact.
I cannot thank you enough for all your help! I learned an awful lot through this & hopefully I can now regraph other images that were giving me issues as well...
Thank you, thank you, thanks!!!
Kathy
Helen,
No worries, I answered this in the other topic...you're just going to treat this as any other standard single crochet pattern, if that's the stitch you chose (we call it Standard because in the UK it's called a double crochet - how is that for confusing? LOL). So you'd chain 151 to give yourself the one extra chain for turning to start your new row.
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Alison,
Welcome!
A later version
of our software will offer the ability to start from scratch with a
blank graph; I'm very sorry to say that we don't offer the ability
to do that at the moment. For now, our software exclusively offers
the ability to make patterns from digital images only.
That said, it's not impossible, and here's what you may
want to do...if you have access to a computer. (It may also be
possible to use a mobile device; I just don't know enough about
mobile device graphics programs, as I personally do all graphics
work on computer.) Using a computer, you could "draw" your pattern
as boxes in a graphics program by using a transparent grid as only
a guide, saving your work in a png or tif format, and then using
the resulting image here either to output as a black and white
cross stitch (for a square grid) or a filet pattern. (The filet
pattern is technically for filet crochet, but as it depicts blank
or filled squares, that should work for normal or bobble. And, like
cross stitch, it's square.)
Hope that helps!
If anything is unclear, please let me know, or if you have more
questions. And if you do have computer access but not a graphics
program, there are two excellent, powerful programs that are free
and highly recommended.
Hi, Loonbeader.
Well I way underestimated the time it would take to re-do the beading function.
There's a new graphics engine that will handle a whole new upcoming version but beading is taking way longer than I planned. Herringbone, loom, and square stitches will work with the new software but I'm still working on brick, peyote, and raw.
Sorry about the delay but please know that I haven't forgotten about it.
I'm also winding up a related project for a large corporate client and once done will hopefully have more time to enhance the software.
Thanks for your understanding!
Terry
Hi everyone!
In June 2019, my grandma gave me a plastic canvas/half cross stitching/needlepoint kit. I was so happy with the result that I bought a cross stitch kit, which I loved even more. Now, almost a year later I am still stitching, with a sickening amount of patterns that are waiting to be stitched. I have a sort of addiction to buying patterns, but the ones I have started are looking good so far. I am so lucky to have cross stitch, especially during this time. Imagine all of the people who have nothing better to do and just sit on their phones all day! At least we get to create beautiful things. I started sewing when I was seven and have always loved to stitch, coming from a long line of tailors. I found Stitchboard, and I am very happy because I was looking for a good photo conversion software--and this is free! I still do plastic canvas/needlepoint, but cross stitching is my favorite. I also do a little knitting and crochet. I very much dislike, howver, when people call my cross stitching "crochet". Does that bother anyone else?
Anyhow, cross stitching is a great way to spend time. People often ask me how I did it, and they refuse to believe me on how simple it is. I made every possible mistake, however. I started at the very corner, not the center, I used all six strands of floss, and, until recently, my stitches were not in the same direction. Read instructions and watch videos first! Besides these painful regrets, cross stitching has enhanced my life and my mood. I am happy to be a part of the stitchboard community: I was looking for good cross-stitch forums and a place to sell my patterns!
-Secoya
Hi Terry!
I got this to work!!!! But, I didn't use your image... I read your newest note & still had the original version of the image that I redesigned (the one that was good). I reopened the file in my editing program, resaved the file but this time as a gif. I ran it through the program but still saw problems so I went back and reread a few more of your messages.
All along I have been using the "light" stray pixel cleanup & the "smooth" option to the max smoothness available, & also choose my colors.
This time, I used the gif again, chose the the pixel option=image pixel, used the basic switchboard pallet, did not designate any restrictions or my own colors, nor did I use the smoothness & stray pixel cleanup. Viola! Perfect word chart. I reran the image again only this time I chose the color & symbol chart just to verify it wasn't picking up errant colors & it isn't. The stitch counts on both the word & graph pdfs are exact.
I cannot thank you enough for all your help! I learned an awful lot through this & hopefully I can now regraph other images that were giving me issues as well...
Thank you, thank you, thanks!!!
Kathy
Helen,
No worries, I answered this in the other topic...you're just going to treat this as any other standard single crochet pattern, if that's the stitch you chose (we call it Standard because in the UK it's called a double crochet - how is that for confusing? LOL). So you'd chain 151 to give yourself the one extra chain for turning to start your new row.
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