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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!
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!)
New! The Red Heart Super Saver Palette - thank you to BetwixtTheStitch!
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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How can I view the stitchboard color palette in order to match my colors?
Excellent!
Love it so far...please keep us
apprised of your progress!
Thanks for posting!
Zirean,
Welcome!
The freePatternWizard doesn't create patterns that way. For a filet crochet pattern, it will give you a grid you can follow, which will show filled and non-filled squares.
Silvertiger,
I'm not familiar with that one. If it's a wool blend or superwash, it can be blocked, though I'd be careful about washing it in a machine. All wool blends are not created equal, and some of them retain enough of the wool's shrinking properties to shrink more, which you probably wouldn't want!
If it is a wool blend or superwash, the best thing to do is knit up a swatch, then actually wash it and see what it does. Hopefully it's a blend that takes well to washing!
Now if the yarn is 100% acrylic (the label will say the percentage of acrylic and whatever else it is), then I'd just toss it into the machine, wash it on cool or cold, dry it using low heat, then see how it looks. That technically should make your stitches nice and even.
I've washed acrylic in the machine...carefully. I want to say what I did was to make a blanket out of Simply Soft, which isn't quite the same as either a wool blend or really like Red Heart acrylic, as it's quite soft. But it's still an acrylic (e.g., plastic!) and if you put an acrylic through high heat...it will melt, since it's...plastic!
I took great care to ensure there was nothing to heat the Simply Soft, both through the washer and dryer...and I have to admit, running it through a wash did even up the stitches!
I posted one FREE crochet book for Kindle for today...grab it before it's gone! (Note: you do not need to have an actual Kindle. If you have a smartphone, you can download a Kindle reader app for FREE...if all you have is a PC, you can download to your PC...and I believe there may also be a way now of completely bypassing any kind of reader app to read directly online - though please don't quote me on that, as I'm not sure. I find the PC reader to be quite decent for pattern content...since I don't own a Kindle, I can't say how well it works...but I would think a smaller screen would make patterns kind of difficult to read.)
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How can I view the stitchboard color palette in order to match my colors?
Excellent!
Love it so far...please keep us
apprised of your progress! Thanks for posting!
Zirean,
Welcome!
The freePatternWizard doesn't create patterns that way. For a filet crochet pattern, it will give you a grid you can follow, which will show filled and non-filled squares.
Silvertiger,
I'm not familiar with that one. If it's a wool blend or superwash, it can be blocked, though I'd be careful about washing it in a machine. All wool blends are not created equal, and some of them retain enough of the wool's shrinking properties to shrink more, which you probably wouldn't want!
If it is a wool blend or superwash, the best thing to do is knit up a swatch, then actually wash it and see what it does. Hopefully it's a blend that takes well to washing!
Now if the yarn is 100% acrylic (the label will say the percentage of acrylic and whatever else it is), then I'd just toss it into the machine, wash it on cool or cold, dry it using low heat, then see how it looks. That technically should make your stitches nice and even.
I've washed acrylic in the machine...carefully. I want to say what I did was to make a blanket out of Simply Soft, which isn't quite the same as either a wool blend or really like Red Heart acrylic, as it's quite soft. But it's still an acrylic (e.g., plastic!) and if you put an acrylic through high heat...it will melt, since it's...plastic!
I took great care to ensure there was nothing to heat the Simply Soft, both through the washer and dryer...and I have to admit, running it through a wash did even up the stitches!
I posted one FREE crochet book for Kindle for today...grab it before it's gone! (Note: you do not need to have an actual Kindle. If you have a smartphone, you can download a Kindle reader app for FREE...if all you have is a PC, you can download to your PC...and I believe there may also be a way now of completely bypassing any kind of reader app to read directly online - though please don't quote me on that, as I'm not sure. I find the PC reader to be quite decent for pattern content...since I don't own a Kindle, I can't say how well it works...but I would think a smaller screen would make patterns kind of difficult to read.)
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