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Comments on Dimensions Gold Pattern.

I am doing a Dimensions Gold Pattern, Millenium Angel. The pattern is printed on one large piece of paper, with all the syhmbols and backstitching together. In some places it is difficult to read the symbols under the backstitching; in one place, quite impossible. There are a limited number of symbols, whith the same symbol printed in 4 colors; black, red, green and blue. The particular part I a having difficulty with is a + symbol, one in green and one in blue. They are in exactly the same part of the pattern. I literally have to get out a strong magnifying glass, and a really good light to try and distinguish between which symbol is which. The mind boggles!!

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F.James Cripwell
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"F.James Cripwell" wrote

Sympathies, Jim. I find that use of the same symbol in different colours hard to follow too, especially when criss-crossed with several different colours of backstiching lines. It is so much easier to have a separate backstitching chart to work with.

Dawne

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Dawne Peterson

I've been told that the main Canadian distributor has dropped Dimension kits. Could be that there were too many complaints like you have. Soooomtimes it helps to shine a bright light on the back of the chart and read the chart from the front or try to read the symbol on the back with a light on the front side. Often one dye color will penetrate the paper deeper than the others. As a last resort you could try scraping a bit of paper off the back and see what color or symbol shows up in the fibres. You could also try scraping a bit of the back stitch color off the symbol on the front of the chart. I'm assuming that you can't tell what there should be by magnifiying the colored picture of the finished kit either.

Lots of luck!

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Fred

I find this practice particularly irritating, too!

n and one in blue.

Are you then highlighting one or the other? That might help....

Joan

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Joan E.

Maddening! If you've got a scanner, try scanning the pattern and then pick it up with a photo manipulation program like GIMP or photoshop (at least I presume Photoshop can do this). Select one of the symbols that you know to be blue or green, and then tell the computer to select everything by that color -- then switch the color to another you can easily tell apart, like fuchsia.

Kay

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Kay Lancaster

Wow, I recently purchased Dimensions Gold "Jewels Of The Orient" from my local Michael's. Now I'm having second thoughts about stitching it or my future purchase "The Samurai", also from the Gold Collection to make it a matched set. I've never stitched a Dimensions kit but their charts don't sound like a lot of fun. :(. Too bad because I love the cover pics on most of their charts.

Maureen

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Maureen Miller

I'm still battling 'Mighty Samurai', and had a few problems with the symbols. What I find worse is the backstitch colours...... thick and thin green lines (for example) 2 different colours, but hard to distinguish between *thick and thin*.

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Parrotfish

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