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Thank you!! Now I understand!! For filet crochet I had to make a swatch and count the "blocks" of the filet as that is what a block on the graph is......... Gotcha!! number of filet blocks per inch from my swatch times the number of inches I would like, Awesome!! ........ And Yes Please, Can you recommend the windows pc photo programs for me? I need to shrink my picture and see if that will provide more detail in a smaller version because when I tried it with less inches it didn't look as good to me. 

Thank you so much!! Smiley

Hi, Sharon.

I temporarily had to hold off finishing the pattern for Portia but am back to it now.

Her image is a black and white photo of two people.  Since the original was apparently a .jpg, it was saved somewhat compressed.  This compression introduces noise and stray colors.  This noise is by far the most common cause of stray stitches of many different colors.  So even though the original image was black and white, it actually contains 256 different colors — some shades of gray, and even blues.

The PatternWizard is sensitive to all these various colors and many will show up in the final pattern.

SO, the first thing I did was run the image through Photoshop and had it turn it into a true black and white.  So there were then only black, white, and shades of gray.  Then I told the program to use only certain colors from the palette (Section 5 "I will choose my colors"), checked the "Antialias On" box in section 8 (which helps smooth out lines), and varied the brightness and contrast a little.

I was able to get several usable charts from this.  The only thing I have yet to do is resize it all into a usable chart for what she's wanting to stitch.

I'll hopefully have more information this weekend as we generate the final output.  I'll post again when we're done.

Terry



Tribble79,

The heaviness (is that even a word?) depends on the size of the blanket..
I have only made baby blankets, and they are a bit heavy, but I actually like the weight of it.. I am currently making a 110x180cm blanket for my friends 3 year old, and it's not too heavy.. He could easily carry it around..

I made a blue zig-zag blanket for my youngest boy, and it's still as pretty as when I made it, except for the colors that have worn a bit off (but the blanket has been used for 3 years now, so it is fair enough that it has had some color loss)..

I wash and try it, with no problems at all.. I would maybe wash and dry the yarn BEFORE using it, because it can shrink a bit when dried in a machine..

You are more than welcome to ask questions..

Kind Regards
Line 

Hello from Ontario, Canada.  I learned to crochet over 25 years ago now.
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