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Create a X-Stitch or Petit Point of that loved one in a small fraction
of the time it would take to hand create the homemade masterpiece.
Using software that wad developed
by Leave Me In Stitches, create a cross stitch or petit point of
your photograph. These stitch files can be sewn on your machine with
2 to
24 colors to
create a keepsake suitable for framing. If you stitch with shades of brown, you get
what looks like a sepia tone photograph, shades of gray will look like a black and white
photo.
- Cross Stitch's are made up of X's
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- Petit Points are made up of /'s (slashes)
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- Cross stitches can have up to 60x60 stitches in a 100mm hoop
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- Petit Points can have up to 100x100 stitches since /'s are smaller.
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- With cross stitch the background fabric shows through because the X is not solid, notice
the background in XXXXX
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- Very little background fabric shows on the Petit point because the /'s are next to each
other. See very little background in //////////
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- The resolution is great for people or pets, but does not work well for houses or
objects.
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- Because of the increased resolution, more features of people and pets are visible as
well as now houses and objects are more feasible.
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These designs have around 30,000 - 40,000 stitches - if you do any amount of
embroidery, you know that this is an amazing amount to fit into a 100mm square area.
- Trim after each color. When the next color is applied, the trimming will be more
difficult where threads get caught underneath the previous color. Due to the
openness of the design, horizontal and vertical threads do not cover 100% and will tend to
show through at the end.
- Have a small scissors and fine pointed tweezers handy. I don't remove the hoop
between colors from my machine, the first stitch of each color will be in the most upper
left that it can be. I start the next color, wait for the "trim" on my
machine, then trim the tail of the current color and all of the previous color. The
tweezers comes in real handy to grab each thread you wish to trim.
- Plan your time. A large amount of stitches and 7 color changes will take over 1/2
hour to stitch even on the fastest machines. Full color can take hours.
Because of the nature of the threadwork, what you get is more like a watercolor or low
resolution version of your original photo.
- Close-ups of faces work best. If we start with a tiny person in a photo, the
resolution on the person is not enough to give a good stitch file.
- Single people in a photo works much better than two or more.
- Two people in a photo can work well if the faces are close together.
- Look for a bit of contrast in the photo; a washed out face in bright sunlight or a face
in shadows in a dark room will end up with a mostly white or dark brown look.
- Landscapes, houses, trees, etc... do not always turn out well. There is a better
chance that they will work with Petit Point instead of Cross Stitch. Try looking at
your picture from 20 or more feet away, you will notice that you cannot see all the
detail. That detail is what is lost in the process, so if there is sufficient
light/dark to work on this test, it may be ok.
- When all else fails, ask - I have a quality person who is strict beyond belief and has
never hesitated to go through a series of "lets try this" until it is either
right, or determined that it cannot be done.
- Just about any image format that can be e-mailed or sent on floppy disk. JPG works
well because it contains all the resolution information and is nicely compressed.
BMP is the format that many people use because it is so widely used.
GIF, WMF, TIF are other popular formats that work.
For all Cross Stitch and Petit Point files, I will send you a ZIP file containing
any of these formats plus a text file that gives you the thread listing in Sulky threads.
- CAN - Husqvarna CAN (Digitizing or Resize) file
- PCS - Pfaff
- DST - Tajama
- PEC - Brother, Bernina, Babylock
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