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Hi, there. I've just created my account here and still trying to learn all the things I can do.
First of all, I'm glad for finding this community. I'd like to ask how to connect my sc when I'm crocheting a tappestry project, I mean thos gaps between the rows, the stiches are on stitch distance but don't look like. I'm gonna put a pic here for example, it was my first project and just started a new one. Hope that there still are users at this forum.
Hi.
Thanks for asking!
Yes, this is a change that I made recently because some users were asking about having the individual stitches removed.
I can now see it's a total user-preference issue. Some will want it one way, some the other.
I'm going to add an option in the blue "Preferences" tab on the left that will allow you to change the appearance of this image.
Actually there will probably be 3 options:
1. Show image as stitched (what you like)
2. Show image without stitch marks (what some commercial members have preferred)
3. Show original image (I'll just throw this in in case someone wants it.)
The #3 original image will be without stitch marks and the colors will be those from your original image and not those chosen from the program palette.
Anyway, please give me a day or two and I'll add this option. I'll post again when it's done.
Terry
Hi there everyone,
My real name is De'Andrea and I started working with beads when I was 19, a long long time ago. I didn't stay with it picking up beading again in the 1990s (told you it was a very long time ago). Made quite a few beaded necklaces and earrings back in the '90s that I sold to local folks and for my family and friends. Back then I didn't work in peyote, brick stitch or straight stitch, off or on loom. When I was 19 I wanted to make my sister beaded hatband in a southwest design for her birthday which was 2 weeks after mine. She had bought a beading book on Native American designs and techniques for my birthday present. I only had money to buy the beads, used my Mom's sewing thread and worked with them til I figured out my way of off loom straight stitch where I sewed down 2 beads at a time instead of 1 at a time like traditional straight stitch.
I didn't stick with beading in the '90s either mainly due to work and life happening. Now after a 25+ yr hiatus I am back to my first love of beading. I still work full time for a few more yrs, except now I have a 4 on & 4 off work schedule which allows me more time to bead. A friend of mine got me back into beading again when he found out I used to bead. He commissioned me to create a beaded vulture for him. Ok, I know vultures are not on very many folks list as an ideal subject to have hanging on their walls. My friend Jim loves vultures for the contribution they do for the world with helping clean it up.
Jim lives in New Mexico and hand makes & sells small wooden tapestry looms and tools. He collects vulture memorabilia and wanted something special to add to it in beads. I worked up the vulture in peyote with the edges worked in brick stitch to make the curves and beak work out. It is a shaped peyote piece 9"X6". Now I am working on the background that is being made on my large Mirrix tapestry loom. It will be 20" wide by at least 17" high. Once it is finished I will applique the peyote vulture to the bottom right corner of it. Jim merely wanted a 5"X5" vulture head beaded piece. Me, I didn't think that would do the vulture justice and decided to create this "monster" of a tapestry for him. I have been working on the project since last fall and hopefully will be done with it this summer.
My non beading life consists of my hubby of 39 yrs, 1 son & daughter-n-law who live in Alaska, my 5 Grandkitties, Grandhamster and Grandchinchilla. I have dogs & parrots kids now.
Hello I have been snooping around here for a few days now. I don't really see many graph patterns for sale and that could be because everyone makes their own, I don't know, but I am trying to make a graphghan for my dad. The thing is I need it at least 250 stitches across. I have seen some people getting upgrades and thought, hmmmm....I'll just upgrade! But I have not found an option to upgrade so can someone please explain how this works?
My dad: he's 77 years old, had a kidney transplant about 5 years ago-ish and since we aren't promised tomorrow, I'd like to get started on this for him today! The goal is to finish by Father's Day.
If you have any insight on how to upgrade, I would appreciate it!
God bless you one and all,
Thanks!
Jonna Pierce
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Hi, there. I've just created my account here and still trying to learn all the things I can do.
First of all, I'm glad for finding this community. I'd like to ask how to connect my sc when I'm crocheting a tappestry project, I mean thos gaps between the rows, the stiches are on stitch distance but don't look like. I'm gonna put a pic here for example, it was my first project and just started a new one. Hope that there still are users at this forum.
Welcome!
First, I'm wondering if
you're measuring your pattern according to the width of the pages
on which it's printed to get the dimensions? This is actually not
the measurement you're looking for.
What
you're looking for is your gauge, based on the size hook, the
stitch (filet blocks in this case), the fiber you're using and,
well, you! 
No two people crochet exactly the same, so what
you need to do is use the hook you've chosen and the fiber and then
crochet at least a 4 inch x 4 inch swatch in filet, using both
empty and full blocks. When you know your gauge, e.g., how many
blocks per inch, you'll then know how many blocks in "stitches" and
"rows" you'll need for the measurements of your windows. (If you
find you're not able to get the result you want - say, your blocks
are a bit too large, you can go down one hook size and swatch
again.)
No two people crochet exactly the same, so what
you need to do is use the hook you've chosen and the fiber and then
crochet at least a 4 inch x 4 inch swatch in filet, using both
empty and full blocks. When you know your gauge, e.g., how many
blocks per inch, you'll then know how many blocks in "stitches" and
"rows" you'll need for the measurements of your windows. (If you
find you're not able to get the result you want - say, your blocks
are a bit too large, you can go down one hook size and swatch
again.)This is the measurement you'll need
to know how many blocks you'll need for your particular windows.
Hope that helps!
That's a
beautiful image and will make stunning curtains in filet!
Hi.
Thanks for asking!
Yes, this is a change that I made recently because some users were asking about having the individual stitches removed.
I can now see it's a total user-preference issue. Some will want it one way, some the other.
I'm going to add an option in the blue "Preferences" tab on the left that will allow you to change the appearance of this image.
Actually there will probably be 3 options:
1. Show image as stitched (what you like)
2. Show image without stitch marks (what some commercial members have preferred)
3. Show original image (I'll just throw this in in case someone wants it.)
The #3 original image will be without stitch marks and the colors will be those from your original image and not those chosen from the program palette.
Anyway, please give me a day or two and I'll add this option. I'll post again when it's done.
Terry
Hi there everyone,
My real name is De'Andrea and I started working with beads when I was 19, a long long time ago. I didn't stay with it picking up beading again in the 1990s (told you it was a very long time ago). Made quite a few beaded necklaces and earrings back in the '90s that I sold to local folks and for my family and friends. Back then I didn't work in peyote, brick stitch or straight stitch, off or on loom. When I was 19 I wanted to make my sister beaded hatband in a southwest design for her birthday which was 2 weeks after mine. She had bought a beading book on Native American designs and techniques for my birthday present. I only had money to buy the beads, used my Mom's sewing thread and worked with them til I figured out my way of off loom straight stitch where I sewed down 2 beads at a time instead of 1 at a time like traditional straight stitch.
I didn't stick with beading in the '90s either mainly due to work and life happening. Now after a 25+ yr hiatus I am back to my first love of beading. I still work full time for a few more yrs, except now I have a 4 on & 4 off work schedule which allows me more time to bead. A friend of mine got me back into beading again when he found out I used to bead. He commissioned me to create a beaded vulture for him. Ok, I know vultures are not on very many folks list as an ideal subject to have hanging on their walls. My friend Jim loves vultures for the contribution they do for the world with helping clean it up.
Jim lives in New Mexico and hand makes & sells small wooden tapestry looms and tools. He collects vulture memorabilia and wanted something special to add to it in beads. I worked up the vulture in peyote with the edges worked in brick stitch to make the curves and beak work out. It is a shaped peyote piece 9"X6". Now I am working on the background that is being made on my large Mirrix tapestry loom. It will be 20" wide by at least 17" high. Once it is finished I will applique the peyote vulture to the bottom right corner of it. Jim merely wanted a 5"X5" vulture head beaded piece. Me, I didn't think that would do the vulture justice and decided to create this "monster" of a tapestry for him. I have been working on the project since last fall and hopefully will be done with it this summer.
My non beading life consists of my hubby of 39 yrs, 1 son & daughter-n-law who live in Alaska, my 5 Grandkitties, Grandhamster and Grandchinchilla. I have dogs & parrots kids now.
Hello I have been snooping around here for a few days now. I don't really see many graph patterns for sale and that could be because everyone makes their own, I don't know, but I am trying to make a graphghan for my dad. The thing is I need it at least 250 stitches across. I have seen some people getting upgrades and thought, hmmmm....I'll just upgrade! But I have not found an option to upgrade so can someone please explain how this works?
My dad: he's 77 years old, had a kidney transplant about 5 years ago-ish and since we aren't promised tomorrow, I'd like to get started on this for him today! The goal is to finish by Father's Day.
If you have any insight on how to upgrade, I would appreciate it!
God bless you one and all,
Thanks!
Jonna Pierce
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