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Hello! I am new to the community and I like what I see already, expecially all the questions and comments! I have learned a lot already! Thanks everyone. I recently finished a graphgan for my son from a printed pattern. It was 2 pages, 215 stitches across and 282 rows in length. I would like to creat my own pattern but not too sure how to go about making one approximately the same size without so many pages. Can you help please?
Hi Melanie,
Your shift work you did sounded quite frustrating. I am not a phone person, don't like to talk on them and use mine mainly as my portable internet instead. If my tablet had phone availability I would do away with the phone itself.
I hate weaving ends in too. The vulture tapestry I have not used the end tuck method throughout it. Instead I tie the new thread to the old one, slip the ends close and continue away. Since it will have a suede backing attached to it and is a wall hanging I know it will not have extra stress on it and should never coem apart like a bracelt or something used daily would. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do with this particular piece excet tuck all warp threads in and hide them. I used Fireline for the warp which I will not do again for one this large. I prefer the Nymo so it can be tightened as neede once started. The Fireline does not have much give beyond the initial tightening and as the beads are worked in and it needs adjusting it has broke 3 threads I ahd to repair with beading in place. Was not a feat I enjoyed, but nmanaged it to the best of my ability. The edges were not as smooth going from side to side as I like on my loom work, but usiong the springs provided with the Mirrix loom it is hard to set them and keep them spread apart like I prefer. I will remodel this loom and change the springs for threaded bars next tiem I use it for bead work. Some folks don't like threaded bars, but for me the warps stay in place and can be tightened better. The spring for me kept stretching and sagging. I have it tied & held down in a way the Miorrix company would gasp from horror if they saw it!
The square stitch method I developed for my own beading in the early years and picking up a line at a tiem of beads did require learning just how much slack to give the line so as I sewed each 2 bead section into the next it took up the slack and came out with all gone once at the end of the line. Given soem beads , especially back then were not uniform and the slack allowed for that and kept the piece from buckling. It's kinda' not a way to bead I think a person would pick up on if not shown in person how to judge the slack. When my son was a teen he learned and did nice work. He just never continued with his craft work. Back then he learned to crochet, sew, bead and cross stitch. It was fun teaching him to do those things since I didn't have a daughter to spend time with.
would you start with your foundation ch. the reverse sc row 1 from left to right then alternate regular sc right to left and reverse sc left to right on the rows?
Carol,
Welcome!
I like Sherry's idea, too. She's right...some people tape all of the pages together, but in the case of 30 pages, I think it makes more sense to staple groups of rows together...less bulk and confusion!
FYI, we do have a feature in development, to resize patterns for printing so you can fit more lines on a PDF page.
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