On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:10:57 -0800, Herb <Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote:
>Snake@pit.com wrote:
>
> > Herb,
> >
> > This is my first attempt at digitizing a pattern manually and I was
> > wondering if you would critique? I know this is an odd request...but
> > you seem to be one helping most out here.
> >
> > What do you see was done right / wrong?
> >
> > Thanks for your assistance,
> >
> > SnakePit
>
>
>A fine effort! Can't really tell without stitching it out, but ...
>
>I see that although this is a three-color design, there are nine color
>changes. While it's sometimes appropriate, this design only needs each
>color to appear once.
>
>If you look closely at the design, it appears that the square is
>broken into three parts; each segment of the square has borders,
>including the edges that are up agains the compass. This is more a
>design and planning issue than a digitizing function. Whether and
>where to put borders is a perennial question!
>
>Because most of what I do is done with auto-digitizers with just a
>little manual tweaking, I tend to end up with some of same
>fill-pattern characteristics as your Masonic emblem. Namely, patterns
>that go all in one direction or that don't make sense. For instance,
>the stitches in the compass hinge would make better sense if they were
>radial, and in each leg of the compass if they were orthogonal to eacj
>leg, or at least if one leg mirrored the other.
>
>The G and the inch markings look particularly good.
>
>I'd like to reiterate that this is much better than anything I could
>do! I'm glad that nobody's asked me to criticize my own stuff!
>
>Hope this helps -
>
> - Herb
Herb,
Thanks for the critique...I have tried the auto digitizer functions
using several programs and depending on their complexity...I just
don't like the results I see (seems most of the time the auto
digitizer creates too many stitches as well as duplicate stitches).
Perhaps I am using the wrong auto digitizer. What program do you
typically utilize?
Again...I reall do apprecaite the time you took to look this over;
hopefully I will get better at manually digitizing this year.
Cheers from Texas,
Snakepit
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