Um, has anyone ever bothered manually converting a decently large paper pattern into digital? (media.mastodon.sunny.garden)

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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...

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[-] Drachin@troet.cafe 4 points 1 year ago

@thegiddystitcher @lemmy_stitch maybe @Jornia can tell something about it, she put a pretty large pattern piece into Pattern Keeper the other day.

[-] Jornia@troet.cafe 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@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)

[-] thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden 3 points 1 year ago

@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*

[-] Drachin@troet.cafe 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@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

[-] Jornia@troet.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

@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

[-] thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden 2 points 1 year ago

@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! 😆

[-] Jornia@troet.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

@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.

[-] thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden 2 points 1 year ago

@Jornia @Drachin @lemmy_stitch Will let you know how long this takes and if it was worth it in the end 😅

[-] Jornia@troet.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

@thegiddystitcher @Drachin @lemmy_stitch I'm excited, entering the 2 photos into PK took about 45 minutes
It didn't turn out perfectly, but it still works great.

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm... Sounds like the sort of thing a super cool YouTuber might make a video tutorial about...

👀

[-] thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden 2 points 1 year ago

@MrJameGumb Sounds like something a super cool YouTuber might already have given up on, more like 😛

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ubermeisters@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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..

[-] thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden 1 points 1 year ago

@ubermeisters May have to look into this at some point if I ever stitch any more of their paper-only patterns!

[-] ubermeisters@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden 1 points 1 year ago

@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 😁

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