Hi guys, I'm in the midst of making Christmas presents. After one pretty not-so- great attempt at stitching a tractor design on a hat, I am faced with the same problem for a scarf and finally am crying "UNCLE!", as we say. I have been saving images off the web (Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog), then simplifying the colors greatly in Photoshop. Then I print it life size. When I printed it on graph paper I had printed out to my gauge, it was too intricate for the size, so I ended up top- stitching it.
Now that I'm making a scarf with a picture at each end (UGH!), I have decided to work in worsted on a size 4 needle. How can I switch to smaller needles while maintaining the width of the scarf so that I can reproduce the pictures more prettily? Or any other ideas? HELP!
Size 4 US or 4 mm metric? Either way, I think you'll end up with a very stiff scarf at this gauge (assuming you don't knit VERY loosely). I often knit scarves on a larger needle than I would use for a garment because I want the scarf to feel as soft as possible against the skin. My suggestion is to reduce the complexity of the charted design or use a finer yarn. Or embroider the design on the finished scarf. If you still want to use smaller needles, make a swatch to determine your gauge and to see whether you like the knitted fabric. Then figure out how many stitches you'll need for the width you want. Conversely, you can figure out how many stitches you need for the chart, then work out the gauge you would need for that many stitches for the width you want (total number of stitches divided by scarf width = gauge in stitches per inch).
I'm trying to put Sonic the Hedgehog and/or Mario on either ends of a scarf. The scarf will be 8-10 inches wide. I have been thinking about this this morning....Is it possible to make the end of the scarf in, say, size 4 or 5 USA needle and then maybe like switch to size 8's, doing a k2tog across the row so the width doesnt go haywacky? I was alternatively thinking about embroidering it on a patch and sewing it on, but I'm not that good and don't have that kind of time to spend on it.
My courage is faltering for this project. Oh dear.... :(
I found this felted bag pattern with Mario on it. The Mario chart is duplicate stitched on afterwards and is only 11 sts wide. From a distance I think it looks pretty good.
GOOD GRIEF! What an awful time I'm having. I love that pattern, Leah, but I can't seem to save it, copy it, download it, NOTHING. It seems to be there for public use--it even has a "printable version"---but every time I try to print it, the graphs come out completely empty. Blank. Nothing. (Yes, I do have ink in the printer! LOL). There seems to be no way to contact the creator of that pattern. I'm at a loss. Any ideas out there?
SHEESH! I just viewed the page source. It seems instead of images, they put descriptions of each square of the grid into the page one at a time. That's why it won't print. Most of the time, all images are listed in the page source under an "img" tag, so you view source (Opera works better for this than Firefox) and then do a search for any "img" tags. Once you find the right one, you can usually paste the location into your brower and view it directly on its own page and do whatever you need with it. This is useful when someone displays the wrong picture and you need to see the one intended to be displayed. But these aren't images!
The easiest way we found when you have something you can't capture or print from the browser is to use your keyboard and an image handling program. We like the free program Irfan. Above the home/end/delete/page up/page down/insert buttons are 3 buttons to the right of your F keys. They should be labeled PrtScn/SysRq, ScrLk, and Pause Break. Center the image on your browser screen. Then, find the PrtScn/SysRq button and press it once. Open your image handling program. Use CTRL and V to paste the image into your software. Crop it to the size you want and then do a save as or print as you desire.
If you don't have an image handling program but have a word processor, you can paste it into a blank page, but cropping and resizing it will be much harder. The Notepad word processing program that comes with Win doesn't work. You can also paste it into the free Paint program that comes with windows. Older versions only handle BMP images, but saving an extra large image is better than not having it at all!
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