I’m going to try to do these summaries every day, though I may not actually get them done every day.
Yesterday I stitched 390 stitches. The Strawberry Harvest project is a pdf and I can use Pattern Keeper for that. For me, working from Pattern Keeper is much faster than working from a paper copy. Also, Strawberry Harvest has big areas with the same color. The other project I started yesterday was my scheduled start with my friend, Pat, and we started Martha Walmsley. I’m having to use a paper chart for that one and there are lots of color changes. I stitched 81 stitches on it yesterday and 309 stitches on Strawberry Harvest.
My goal for each day’s stitching is 300 stitches per day. I may always need to have something easy and something not so easy if I’m going to reach that. I don’t know that I would ever be able to stitch 300 stitches in one day on Martha Walmsley but I don’t usually stitch projects like that so . . we’ll see.
Donna says
Hi Judy, what’s this Pattern Keeper you mention? Do you download your pattern onto it? Is that how you keep track of how many stitches you stitch? I’ve never thought of counting stitches. I look forward to reading your posts!!
judy.blog@gmail.com says
I’m not the one to ask. I’m not very technical so take whatever I say with a grain of salt. It’s an app, and last I knew, it only worked with Android but that well may have changed. Supposedly you can scan/copy paper charts and import them into Pattern Keeper. I’ve never had much luck with that but . . I’m sure others think that feature is great. If you purchase a chart that is a pdf, most of them will work with Pattern keeper. I download the chart to my tablet, then “add a new project” to PK. The most recently added files show up, I click on those and it brings them in. There’s a bit of setup . . # of stitches wide, # of stitches long, then pull the PK graph out to the sides of the chart.
I’ve been using it for a couple of years and love it. Wish all charts were pdf.
Donna says
Thank you! I’ll check into it!