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Bless you your so encouraging ifI get it right I'll post my finished project.🙈
Hi Kate, and welcome!
Let me take a look at it and I'll get back to you in a bit...
Terry
Morning Melanie,
Thanks for the compliments. No worries with when you get back to me. I too will be busy for the next few days~~4 to be exact~~but, not in a fun way. Nope, I have to go back to work which is a 4 on & 4 off weekly drudgery. I work nights and on work days/nights I have no time for fun things like beading or embroidery.
I will be going to bed soon for my
"work nap", I get up every work day at 2pm. I live 50 miles from
work, so I get very little sleep ont the 4 work days. Bummer, but
we like to eat & I love to spend money on my craft
fetishes. 
I can work in square stitch too, was the first stitch I learned when I first started beading at the age of 19 a ton of yrs ago. At the time I couldn't afford a loom or good beads. I had to buy the cheap beads from the 5 & 10 variety store in the small town I grew up in. I used white cotton thread from my Mom's sewing stash. It was a bear to keep from knotting up every other line of beading. During those early beading yrs I developed my own way of picking up a whole line of beads and sewing them down 2 at a time in my own square stitch way. I don't have any diagrams of the technique and haven't worked in that style in over 25 yrs or more. My reason for creating my style of picking up a line of beads at a time was I hated picking up one bead at a time back then. Now it doesn't bother me to pick one at a time. And I loved being able to cut the beaded projects and not losing all the beads too. Had to do that a time or two when some bead color kept bugging me til I went back and cut the line it was in out and corrected it. That was why I never learned how to loom bead back then even tho after I married my hubby bought me a simple Native American style loom. He and our son used it, but I stayed away from it. Now I have 4 looms I bought especially for loom beading. Do I have time to work on all of them at one time? Not a chance!!
The bead in the center of the star is a piece of turquoise in a sort of teardrop shape. It a piece, from some left over I bought yrs ago for use in past beading projects. The pieces in the loop are a few more like it along with turquoise colored 11/0 Delica beads.
Thanks for the offer in helping with PDFs. When I have time to get back to creating future projects I will let you know if I run into problems. I'm not very experienced in the beading program, but as I use them I am getting better.
Gotta' go, have a few things to do before I turn in for my nap. Have a great day and I will be back in a few days. And YAY I only have 45 more lines to go on the vulture loomed background to finish. Then I can begin the tedious part I hate most~~those 311 warp strings!! Just one reason I don't like loom beading.
Nina,
For some reason PayPal gave us an error but our system keeps great records of everything so I manually entered your subscription. Sorry about that.
You can now process patterns up to 300 stitches across.
(We extended your new subscription by a month for the inconvenience so you'll get a 13-month subscription instead of 12.)
Terry
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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!
Bless you your so encouraging ifI get it right I'll post my finished project.🙈
Hi Kate, and welcome!
Let me take a look at it and I'll get back to you in a bit...
Terry
Morning Melanie,
Thanks for the compliments. No worries with when you get back to me. I too will be busy for the next few days~~4 to be exact~~but, not in a fun way. Nope, I have to go back to work which is a 4 on & 4 off weekly drudgery. I work nights and on work days/nights I have no time for fun things like beading or embroidery.
I will be going to bed soon for my
"work nap", I get up every work day at 2pm. I live 50 miles from
work, so I get very little sleep ont the 4 work days. Bummer, but
we like to eat & I love to spend money on my craft
fetishes. I can work in square stitch too, was the first stitch I learned when I first started beading at the age of 19 a ton of yrs ago. At the time I couldn't afford a loom or good beads. I had to buy the cheap beads from the 5 & 10 variety store in the small town I grew up in. I used white cotton thread from my Mom's sewing stash. It was a bear to keep from knotting up every other line of beading. During those early beading yrs I developed my own way of picking up a whole line of beads and sewing them down 2 at a time in my own square stitch way. I don't have any diagrams of the technique and haven't worked in that style in over 25 yrs or more. My reason for creating my style of picking up a line of beads at a time was I hated picking up one bead at a time back then. Now it doesn't bother me to pick one at a time. And I loved being able to cut the beaded projects and not losing all the beads too. Had to do that a time or two when some bead color kept bugging me til I went back and cut the line it was in out and corrected it. That was why I never learned how to loom bead back then even tho after I married my hubby bought me a simple Native American style loom. He and our son used it, but I stayed away from it. Now I have 4 looms I bought especially for loom beading. Do I have time to work on all of them at one time? Not a chance!!
The bead in the center of the star is a piece of turquoise in a sort of teardrop shape. It a piece, from some left over I bought yrs ago for use in past beading projects. The pieces in the loop are a few more like it along with turquoise colored 11/0 Delica beads.
Thanks for the offer in helping with PDFs. When I have time to get back to creating future projects I will let you know if I run into problems. I'm not very experienced in the beading program, but as I use them I am getting better.
Gotta' go, have a few things to do before I turn in for my nap. Have a great day and I will be back in a few days. And YAY I only have 45 more lines to go on the vulture loomed background to finish. Then I can begin the tedious part I hate most~~those 311 warp strings!! Just one reason I don't like loom beading.
Nina,
For some reason PayPal gave us an error but our system keeps great records of everything so I manually entered your subscription. Sorry about that.
You can now process patterns up to 300 stitches across.
(We extended your new subscription by a month for the inconvenience so you'll get a 13-month subscription instead of 12.)
Terry
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