Um, has anyone ever bothered manually converting a decently large paper pattern into digital?
Was it worth the time you saved during actual stitching?
Because it seemed like a really good idea to give myself a Pattern Keeper version of Errol, but this much took me half an hour, so maybe not…
@thegiddystitcher @lemmy_stitch maybe @Jornia can tell something about it, she put a pretty large pattern piece into Pattern Keeper the other day.
@Drachin @thegiddystitcher @lemmy_stitch My current project is 86*346 crosses. Making the template in Pattern Keeper was worth it, it works much better. It has already saved me more time than it took to convert. (I’m only 22% done)
@Jornia @Drachin @lemmy_stitch Thank you! Mine is significantly smaller, but still big enough to be a pain in paper form, so sounds like I was on the right track all along.
*rolls up sleeves*
Hmm… Sounds like the sort of thing a super cool YouTuber might make a video tutorial about…
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@MrJameGumb Sounds like something a super cool YouTuber might already have given up on, more like 😛
It was worth a shot lol I’ve done a couple of patterns that were on paper, I ended up just taking a picture of them on my tablet and working from that
@thegiddystitcher I think @Jornia didn’t do it by hand though. Should have read more carefully. If I’m right she… took a photo or scanned the original and put it into the app…? @lemmy_stitch
@Drachin @thegiddystitcher @lemmy_stitch
I scanned the template and then loaded it into the app.
The template is also squashed, I’ve now folded it up to make the symbols easier to read@Jornia @Drachin @lemmy_stitch Sadly mine has so much backstitch everywhere PK can’t really make sense of it. But you know what, I’m in the groove, I’ll just keep going.
For science! 😆
@thegiddystitcher @Drachin @lemmy_stitch PK doesn’t recognize the symbols for me either, which isn’t so bad. I can still mark the finished one and the symbol list is next to it.
@Jornia @Drachin @lemmy_stitch Will let you know how long this takes and if it was worth it in the end 😅
Seems like a projector would be handy for this task.
Edit: I’m dumb and haven’t had enough coffee. My statement is based on a backwards reading of the title sorry…
@ubermeisters May have to look into this at some point if I ever stitch any more of their paper-only patterns!
I was mistakenly thinking you needed to take a digital file and get it onto paper, and I was thinking a projector would be the easiest way to do that particular process.
@ubermeisters Ah right, I was thinking maybe you meant people scan in the paper version, project it onto the fabric and sketch it out or something! Other way round makes a lot more sense 😁
