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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!)
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Hi, Calipage.
I see what you're talking about. As we have always posted, we initially did our best to get the colors right for beads, yarn, and floss. Once in a while someone reports an incorrect color but after a few years, there are not as many problems.
I did just scan through the Delica palette of colors and verified that DB1744 is the only one that is entered as nearly black when it should have color. I'll correct this color as soon as I post this message. One other problem we have with bead colors is that there is not really a standard color value from which we can enter into our database. Even bead manufacturers don't have color values by which we can use.
As an example, here are a few different images of DB1744 beads:
These images are from various sources, all showing DB1744. I realize none are close to black but I'm just letting you know that the colors we use in our palettes may or may not be the actual colors you see when you get the beads.
So in answer to your question, it's rare to find a color that's way off in our program (like this particular bead color). It was definitely incorrect in the database and will get corrected immediately.
We also thank everyone who does report incorrect, discontinued, or new colors.
I apologize for this and actually just updated the database. Here are the before and after colors:
Terry
Welcome!
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, so I'll direct you to the freePatternWizard above to make your pattern. You can find it in the menu bar under patterns/create a pattern.
If you're looking for instructions on how to make a charted afghan because you've never made one before, my suggestion would be to start with a very small project, so you can see how it works and whether or not this is something you want to make for a wedding present, which may be very, very pressured. For that, I would suggest searching online to find out about smaller charted patterns. Something like a pillow would be a good practice piece.
Hope I've helped you.
Hi.
I checked and our system does show you have subscribed to 500 stitches maximum.
1. Once you subscribe, you need to reload the freePatternWizard page the first time for it to become active. But it'll be available everytime you go to the program after that.
2. You need to be logged in.
To check to see if it recognizes the 500-stitch limit, go to the freePatternWizard page and look in section 6. You should see "You can create a pattern with up to 500 stitches across."
To create patterns larger than 80 stitches across you would need to change an option in section 6. Either change the first option to a stitch count larger than 80 or choose one of the two other options by clicking on the buttons on the left.
We put an "80" into the first box to be sure people were not just letting it create the largest pattern possible (in your case 500 stitches across) since this might mean there would be 1/2 million stitches or more and that's probably larger than what you might want. Again, if you want 150 or 200 (or up to 500) stitches, enter that number into the box in section 6 and you should get that number of stitches across.
Let me know if you're still having problems.
Terry
Neave,
I feel your pain! I used to try, but finally gave up when I realized...I had no freaking talent for it!
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Hi, Calipage.
I see what you're talking about. As we have always posted, we initially did our best to get the colors right for beads, yarn, and floss. Once in a while someone reports an incorrect color but after a few years, there are not as many problems.
I did just scan through the Delica palette of colors and verified that DB1744 is the only one that is entered as nearly black when it should have color. I'll correct this color as soon as I post this message. One other problem we have with bead colors is that there is not really a standard color value from which we can enter into our database. Even bead manufacturers don't have color values by which we can use.
As an example, here are a few different images of DB1744 beads:
 |  |  |
 |  |  |
These images are from various sources, all showing DB1744. I realize none are close to black but I'm just letting you know that the colors we use in our palettes may or may not be the actual colors you see when you get the beads.
So in answer to your question, it's rare to find a color that's way off in our program (like this particular bead color). It was definitely incorrect in the database and will get corrected immediately.
We also thank everyone who does report incorrect, discontinued, or new colors.
I apologize for this and actually just updated the database. Here are the before and after colors:
 Before |  After |
Terry
Welcome!
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, so I'll direct you to the freePatternWizard above to make your pattern. You can find it in the menu bar under patterns/create a pattern.
If you're looking for instructions on how to make a charted afghan because you've never made one before, my suggestion would be to start with a very small project, so you can see how it works and whether or not this is something you want to make for a wedding present, which may be very, very pressured. For that, I would suggest searching online to find out about smaller charted patterns. Something like a pillow would be a good practice piece.
Hope I've helped you.
Hi.
I checked and our system does show you have subscribed to 500 stitches maximum.
1. Once you subscribe, you need to reload the freePatternWizard page the first time for it to become active. But it'll be available everytime you go to the program after that.
2. You need to be logged in.
To check to see if it recognizes the 500-stitch limit, go to the freePatternWizard page and look in section 6. You should see "You can create a pattern with up to 500 stitches across."
To create patterns larger than 80 stitches across you would need to change an option in section 6. Either change the first option to a stitch count larger than 80 or choose one of the two other options by clicking on the buttons on the left.
We put an "80" into the first box to be sure people were not just letting it create the largest pattern possible (in your case 500 stitches across) since this might mean there would be 1/2 million stitches or more and that's probably larger than what you might want. Again, if you want 150 or 200 (or up to 500) stitches, enter that number into the box in section 6 and you should get that number of stitches across.
Let me know if you're still having problems.
Terry
Neave,
I feel your pain! I used to try, but finally gave up when I realized...I had no freaking talent for it!
Hi, I noticed that when I start to run a pattern for beads it asks me if I want to select from all Delica colors or only some of them. If I were to take the time to input the several hundred colors that I have on hand, would those be saved in my profile, or would the selection be good only for that one pattern?
BTW, thanks for your time and for your awesome website! It's a dream come true!
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