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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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Is it possible to view the cross stitch chart without any gridlines? Just colors and symbols? I mean on the actual pattern chart.
Welcome!
If you're talking about crochet or knitting, we have several palettes available in option 5a of the freePatternWizard; some are based on specific fibers, such as the Red Heart Super Saver and the Caron One Pound, some are generic. If you don't see your preferred palette listed, I'd suggest using the Stitchboard Basic Palette, especially if you're looking to make a crochet or knitting graph. If you're cross stitching, DMC, Anchor or Madeira would be your choices.
Hi, Everyone.
I just updated the freePatternWizard pattern emailer so I'm hoping this will improve the delivery rate of your emails.
We've had some people who've had problems with not receiving their emailed patterns. I'm hoping this change will solve the problem.
Please give me some feedback!
Let me know if you were having problems before and are now receiving the emails. And also, the opposite. Please let me know if all of a sudden you do not receive the emailed patterns but you were before.
If all is well, I'll update the main system's emailer which will also solve password change and initial registration undelivered emails. More about this in a bit.
Thanks for the input!
Terry
Neave,
Oh, yes, this is so true!
Bonnie (Nanny),
Welcome!
If you're trying to create a graph from an .rtf file (which is basically a word processing file), your best bet is to find a way to save it as a .gif or .png. The .jpg format is not recommended, as your image can turn out blurry, because the .jpg format can smudge your colors.
If you've got a few words or a saying, you can use your font to create a gif or png file, but you'll have to use a graphics program for that. I can recommend two very powerful free programs, Gimp and Paint.net, but I have no information on how to manipulate files using these programs, as those aren't our own software packages, and I use a very old piece of software from over 10 years ago instead of either of those. (I believe both sites have message boards for the purpose of asking questions about how to use the software.)
You can find Gimp here:
http://www.gimp.org/
Paint.net is available here:
http://www.getpaint.net/index.html
As for sizes, my best suggestion is to resize your image in one of those programs if it's very large. But as for how to get it to pillow size, that depends on what you're doing. Are you crocheting? Cross stitching? Knitting? If you're crocheting or knitting, you'll have to make a gauge swatch using the needles or hook and yarn that you'll be using for the pattern, so you can know exactly how large it will work up. If it's cross stitching, you'll need to know what kind and size of cloth you'll be using...14 count Aida or linen, 18 count Aida or linen, Congress cloth, 28 or 32 count linen stitched over one...all of these variables will affect your pattern's finished size. There's no one exact answer for using the freePatternWizard; it depends on you, what you're making, the size of what you're making, the craft you're choosing and finally, your cloth count or swatch information to determine how large or small your finished product will be.
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Is it possible to view the cross stitch chart without any gridlines? Just colors and symbols? I mean on the actual pattern chart.
Welcome!
If you're talking about crochet or knitting, we have several palettes available in option 5a of the freePatternWizard; some are based on specific fibers, such as the Red Heart Super Saver and the Caron One Pound, some are generic. If you don't see your preferred palette listed, I'd suggest using the Stitchboard Basic Palette, especially if you're looking to make a crochet or knitting graph. If you're cross stitching, DMC, Anchor or Madeira would be your choices.
Hi, Everyone.
I just updated the freePatternWizard pattern emailer so I'm hoping this will improve the delivery rate of your emails.
We've had some people who've had problems with not receiving their emailed patterns. I'm hoping this change will solve the problem.
Please give me some feedback!
Let me know if you were having problems before and are now receiving the emails. And also, the opposite. Please let me know if all of a sudden you do not receive the emailed patterns but you were before.
If all is well, I'll update the main system's emailer which will also solve password change and initial registration undelivered emails. More about this in a bit.
Thanks for the input!
Terry
Neave,
Oh, yes, this is so true!
Bonnie (Nanny),
Welcome!
If you're trying to create a graph from an .rtf file (which is basically a word processing file), your best bet is to find a way to save it as a .gif or .png. The .jpg format is not recommended, as your image can turn out blurry, because the .jpg format can smudge your colors.
If you've got a few words or a saying, you can use your font to create a gif or png file, but you'll have to use a graphics program for that. I can recommend two very powerful free programs, Gimp and Paint.net, but I have no information on how to manipulate files using these programs, as those aren't our own software packages, and I use a very old piece of software from over 10 years ago instead of either of those. (I believe both sites have message boards for the purpose of asking questions about how to use the software.)
You can find Gimp here:
http://www.gimp.org/
Paint.net is available here:
http://www.getpaint.net/index.html
As for sizes, my best suggestion is to resize your image in one of those programs if it's very large. But as for how to get it to pillow size, that depends on what you're doing. Are you crocheting? Cross stitching? Knitting? If you're crocheting or knitting, you'll have to make a gauge swatch using the needles or hook and yarn that you'll be using for the pattern, so you can know exactly how large it will work up. If it's cross stitching, you'll need to know what kind and size of cloth you'll be using...14 count Aida or linen, 18 count Aida or linen, Congress cloth, 28 or 32 count linen stitched over one...all of these variables will affect your pattern's finished size. There's no one exact answer for using the freePatternWizard; it depends on you, what you're making, the size of what you're making, the craft you're choosing and finally, your cloth count or swatch information to determine how large or small your finished product will be.
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