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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.
Im Anita from Illinois. Ive been beading now for 28 years mostly 3D beading. Ive been doing jewelry for about 8 yrs on and off and never worked with a beading program. I usually draw my patterns freehand but it takes so much time. Im here to share my works and and learn to use this tool to make designing easier and to help anyone in any way i can.
Sherry,
You're right, it's not too bad of a song. LOL, but it's still stuck in my head!
Okay, I would say the first thing would be to perhaps work out a rough alphabet, either from something found free online or roughly sketching one out, knowing how high and how wide of an area you have to work with.
No worries, the graph paper trick is pretty simple! The main thing is to know the size of your outlines. That's really the best way to do it.
Also, are the bobbles rectangular or square? Not that it entirely matters because you'll just be doing simple letters, but the tricky part is if the bobbles are square, because single crochet stitches are definitely rectangular.
I'm not sure looking at part of a pattern would be helpful in this case, though I thank you for the offer.
All it will tell me is how the designer's graphs
look, but it doesn't tell me the shape of the bobbles from right up
close.My guess is you're looking for something far simpler than the freePatternWizard can realistically create. If you were looking for fancy letters, fine, but you're looking for letters to fit into a very limited size. Aside from the fact that the current version of the software doesn't allow you to set the height (rows), only the width (stitches), you'd have to do a lot of experimenting to get the length correct (this will be fixed in a later build of the software, which is in development at the moment). And again, I do think the freePatternWizard is overkill for this. Using graph paper will allow you to not only graph an alpahbet, or at least the letters you'll need, but you only need the simplest shapes. In looking at the picture above, I'm struck by how simple the letters are in the names. The freePatternWizard will take a font and will tend to take it quite literally, filling in letters in spots to make them 2 or 3 bobbles wide. All you need are single-wide bobbles for each part of a letter.
If you'd rather use a computer, you could use a graphics program and some digital graph paper, then plot out the letters you need that way.
You could also try a simple cross stitch alphabet, though keep in mind cross stitch is square, not rectangular, so your letters will be shorter and wider.
Hope that helps!
Melanie,
Patience is a bliss - the kids will learn somehow. :p
A flat fox just doesn't have the same huggable effect I guess.. And I have absolutely no idea how to work the whole fox as only ONE part :p It would be Picasso like - which is good maybe? :p hahahaha
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