Stitchboard Admin message #2
Re: I'm a new member needing help!
August 17, 2016 at 3:29:50 AM  (in response to Kwbunkie message #1)
 
Welcome! 

Thank you so much for your kind words about our program! 

We do plan to offer the ability to adjust both width (stitches) and length (rows); however, it's not available at this time.  Originally, we started with width (stitches) only because our concern was people would tend to skew their patterns by trying to make them too short or long.  Now we're discovering people would like to set both length and width, so we're working on making that available.  While I can't offer a time frame, there's an inelegant solution for now...if you use a graphics program and mess with adding borders to your image, you can get it close to where you want it.  Of course, since this isn't an optimal solution, we're working to get those adjustments available, but in the meantime, this is a way you may be able to get close enough to the measurements you want. 

If you're using Windows and you don't have a graphics program available, there are two very powerful free programs, and I'd be very happy to give you links to download them, if you'd like.  I can't tell you how to use them, though...I'm embarrassed to report that I use a version of Paint Shop Pro that's so old...it's from...1998!    LOL.

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Stitchboard Admin message #5
Re: I'm a new member needing help!
August 18, 2016 at 6:18:24 AM  (in response to Kwbunkie message #4)
 
No worries, you're not a bother...thanks for asking, because any questions you have, others undoubtedly also have!

We don't currently support stitches other than single crochet, Tunisian and filet crochet.  We'll be adding others, but at this time we don't have extended single crochet.

I would say extended single crochet would be very likely to elongate your stitches to the point where they would skew your pattern.  You could try this with a single letter, make one swatch with the letter in sc, then make another swatch with the same letter in extended sc.  You should choose a letter that would show clearly what effect the extended single crochet stitch would have on it.  A letter "I," for instance, probably would look fairly normal, perhaps just a tiny bit longer, so that one wouldn't give conclusive results.

We'll definitely be adding more stitches in the future...I'll suggest we place a higher priority on that, which is what we do with our more popular requested features.  With over 100 features planned, it's going to take some time, so we try to prioritize what people are requesting. 

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