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Oh my gosh! That is crazy! It must take forever! I would go insane. I use the loop method sometimes, I think it is very handy. Sometimes, with uneven stitches, I use the needle to rearrange them and make them less lumpy, but only when it is neccessary. I doubt I could tell the difference between a piece with the tool and without. No one looks close enough to be able to tell that the fibers are not "facing" in the same direction. Best of luck with those loose ends.
Hi,
Sorry you're having problems. I just did some quick testing and the program is working. There have been no recent changes or updates at all.
I'm wondering if you may have updated your operating system or browser recently. I sometimes (but very rarely) see that something doesn't work right after a browser update.
Is the message "You must enter a pattern file name to upload in Section 1" or is it something else? That message does show up when the Pattern Wizard thinks you have not selected an image file in section 1.
When you see the message, does section 1 still show the file name with which you're working?
Let me know some more information and I'll try to help.
Terry
De'Andrea,
Ouch, the four days off must be nice, but what a hassle to work the other four days! Especially when you have to drive 50 miles each way, yuck. I hope working nights is at least quiet?
I worked a sort of split shift many years ago. It was a horrible job, but the hours were pretty decent. 11:45am to 8:30pm (dinner was 3/4 of an hour and not included in the hourly count, so that was the reason there was an extra 15 minutes beforehand and an extra 30 minutes after). It was a not too bad schedule for those who didn't like to get up early, but so inefficient with the way they did things! They ordered a 15 minute meeting before starting work. Then we'd all work and you had to work up until exactly 8:30. Some people's managers understood that if you got a call at 8:30, you wouldn't be off the phone until at least a few minutes later, so they'd allow them to be "offline" from the phones for the last few minutes. But my manager was a stickler. She wanted me to be available until 8:30 on the dot. So the next shift had arrived and would be goofing off, slowly getting on the phones and most of my shift would be "offline," but I was expected to be there "online" until 8:30 and I'd almost ALWAYS get a complicated call at 8:30. But then, my phone was one of the few available.
I was SO glad to leave that place!
It's really nice to have money to spend on crafty things.
I can totally relate! There's always
some beautiful beads or yarns that call out, especially in the
middle of the night. "Buy me!" One cannot resist the call! 
I love that you worked in square stitch, too, especially how you developed your own technique! LOL, I wasn't inventive enough to work
with two beads at a time, so I just went the plodding old one bead
at a time way. It took forever, but I did love ending up with
something that looked like it was loom beaded!
There weren't very many things around for beading in the past...some of my first seed beads were from large plastic packages, sigh. No bead stores anywhere in my area. Even the big box craft stores came much later. Only place to buy anything was a department store, and most didn't carry beads.
That's so cool how you have four looms! I forget...is retirement in your near
future? I hope you can be using all four looms at once when that
happens!
Love the details of the turquoise in the middle and the loop. The star is gorgeous as it is, but I
think the details that aren't standard really help to make a piece,
particularly this one.
Anytime you need help with PDFs...I'm not an expert, but I do know enough to be dangerous.
LOL.
All RIGHT...45 more lines! So psyched for you!
Argh, working in the ends...beading, crochet, knitting...it's so tedious! At least doing the actual work is fun, but the ends are just too annoying.
When working a beading project I try to get a few rows up so no worries about crossing ends woven in, which makes it a LITTLE less tedious. Still is a chore, though.
Thank you, yes and if your paper is looking a little worn at the folding seams, slap a piece of tape on it. fixes it right up...
I have to have it taped as I can't follow well flipping pages, I get very confused LOL. Tapeing works well for me. I hope it works as well for you.
Well back to the crocheting....
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SweetReet,
Welcome! 
No worries,
you're doing the right thing! A gauge swatch is critical when
working with an item where you need specific measurements.
For the number
of stitches across, you need to calculate based on how many inches
across you want the project to be. Since your gauge is 5 sts per
inch, let's say you were trying to make something 50 inches wide,
so you'd multiply 5 x 50 = 250 stitches.
As
for Aida stitch count, Aida is a type of evenweave cross stitch
fabric and is of no consequence here.
The main thing
to remember is that in this version of the software, you can
determine the width of the pattern, but not the length. That will
be changed in a future version of the software. The reason we did
that originally was because we were concerned people would skew or
truncate their patterns if they gave measurements that were too
long or short.
The other thing is that it's
best to make your uploaded image the desired number of stitches
across = number of pixels before uploading it to the
freePatternWizard. Thus, if you want something that's 250 stitches
wide, it's best if you upload an image that's 250 pixels wide. This
way, the freePatternWizard doesn't have to "decide" which pixels to
leave out of the finished pattern. If you're on a Windows machine
and don't have a graphics program to do this, I can suggest two
very established, powerful and entirely free programs that can help
you.
Hope that helps and isn't confusing!
Oh my gosh! That is crazy! It must take forever! I would go insane. I use the loop method sometimes, I think it is very handy. Sometimes, with uneven stitches, I use the needle to rearrange them and make them less lumpy, but only when it is neccessary. I doubt I could tell the difference between a piece with the tool and without. No one looks close enough to be able to tell that the fibers are not "facing" in the same direction. Best of luck with those loose ends.
Hi,
Sorry you're having problems. I just did some quick testing and the program is working. There have been no recent changes or updates at all.
I'm wondering if you may have updated your operating system or browser recently. I sometimes (but very rarely) see that something doesn't work right after a browser update.
Is the message "You must enter a pattern file name to upload in Section 1" or is it something else? That message does show up when the Pattern Wizard thinks you have not selected an image file in section 1.
When you see the message, does section 1 still show the file name with which you're working?
Let me know some more information and I'll try to help.
Terry
De'Andrea,
Ouch, the four days off must be nice, but what a hassle to work the other four days! Especially when you have to drive 50 miles each way, yuck. I hope working nights is at least quiet?
I worked a sort of split shift many years ago. It was a horrible job, but the hours were pretty decent. 11:45am to 8:30pm (dinner was 3/4 of an hour and not included in the hourly count, so that was the reason there was an extra 15 minutes beforehand and an extra 30 minutes after). It was a not too bad schedule for those who didn't like to get up early, but so inefficient with the way they did things! They ordered a 15 minute meeting before starting work. Then we'd all work and you had to work up until exactly 8:30. Some people's managers understood that if you got a call at 8:30, you wouldn't be off the phone until at least a few minutes later, so they'd allow them to be "offline" from the phones for the last few minutes. But my manager was a stickler. She wanted me to be available until 8:30 on the dot. So the next shift had arrived and would be goofing off, slowly getting on the phones and most of my shift would be "offline," but I was expected to be there "online" until 8:30 and I'd almost ALWAYS get a complicated call at 8:30. But then, my phone was one of the few available.
I was SO glad to leave that place!
It's really nice to have money to spend on crafty things.
I can totally relate! There's always
some beautiful beads or yarns that call out, especially in the
middle of the night. "Buy me!" One cannot resist the call! I love that you worked in square stitch, too, especially how you developed your own technique!
LOL, I wasn't inventive enough to work
with two beads at a time, so I just went the plodding old one bead
at a time way. It took forever, but I did love ending up with
something that looked like it was loom beaded!There weren't very many things around for beading in the past...some of my first seed beads were from large plastic packages, sigh. No bead stores anywhere in my area. Even the big box craft stores came much later. Only place to buy anything was a department store, and most didn't carry beads.
That's so cool how you have four looms!
I forget...is retirement in your near
future? I hope you can be using all four looms at once when that
happens! Love the details of the turquoise in the middle and the loop.
The star is gorgeous as it is, but I
think the details that aren't standard really help to make a piece,
particularly this one. Anytime you need help with PDFs...I'm not an expert, but I do know enough to be dangerous.
LOL.All RIGHT...45 more lines!
So psyched for you! Argh, working in the ends...beading, crochet, knitting...it's so tedious! At least doing the actual work is fun, but the ends are just too annoying.
When working a beading project I try to get a few rows up so no worries about crossing ends woven in, which makes it a LITTLE less tedious. Still is a chore, though.
Thank you, yes and if your paper is looking a little worn at the folding seams, slap a piece of tape on it. fixes it right up...
I have to have it taped as I can't follow well flipping pages, I get very confused LOL. Tapeing works well for me. I hope it works as well for you.
Well back to the crocheting....
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