This was a very late photo taken last night to share with a friend.
Look at the black cat and brown dog! How cure are they?
Yesterday I got the flowers done in the window boxes. Still didn’t get the three windows stitched but I got all the flowers and leaves finished in the basket on top of the house.
Moving right along . . and look . . 600 stitches!
I wish every chart I have was a PDF that worked with Pattern Keeper. It keeps up with all my stitches and makes stitching so much easier. PK says I’m 25% done but it has to be more like 30 or 35% since it counts every square within the stitch count and not just the actual stitches. I hope I remember to check and see the percentage it says I’ve completed when I’m totally done. I’m betting it says no more than 75% but . . we’ll see.
Shauna Trueblood says
My work around on PK non pdf patterns is to mark all the empty spaces right after I import it. I then note the number of empty spaces and do the math manually to figure out how much I have left. For me I prefer to know how many stitches I have left to do, so marking the blank spaces as done makes that easier. It normally only takes a few minutes to mark them, and I feel like I am tracking better when I do this. Of course I love a pdf that imports and does that automatically so much more.
When you use the sewing method are you stitching in hand or using s you scroll rods?
judy.blog@gmail.com says
To me, it takes longer to note the empty spaces and since time is what matters in the end, I don’t do it. I’m done when I’m done. I love knowing how many stitches I’ve made during the day and am not going to waste time manually counting so the non-PK charts are the ones I am always wishing were PK friendly.
I will stitch both ways – in hand or in the scroll frame but I prefer to stitch right to left, so for larger areas, I have to flp my frame left to right to keep going right. If it’s just a few stitches, I’ll stitch left to right and I’m hoping I get better with my left hand so I can do the sewing stitch with both hands.
Chris Miller says
Can you scan the pattern and save it as a pdf, then import it into your pattern keeper?
judy.blog@gmail.com says
There seems to be more to it than that. I think there’s some kind of coding that has to be in the pdf because not all pdf patterns will work, even some that I buy as pdf downloads. I can scan the chart and import it and stitch from it but basically, I’m stitching with a photo because the features of Pattern Keeper won’t work with a chart that’s been scanned and saved as a pdf.