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Long before there was graphing kits and computer kits--I made cross-stitch patterns by placing onion-skin paper over a picture & traced the picture--then I made my chart & graph paper by using a ruler & pencil--I would place the graph paper on top of the onion-skin--tape it down--hold it up to a lampshade & draw onto the graph paper--when I finished that, I would go to the kitchen table & rearrange the picture I had just traced-- to fix within the little squares. Most of my pictures were from my children´s coloring books, but the cross-stitch turned out fine--I gave them as gifts--& everyone was pleased. I´m not knocking the technology that we have today--all I´m saying is that nothing will ever take the place of the imagination of a determined person!



mawmaw

Date: Aug 10, 2001 on 11:45 p.m.





Here are some sites to download software from:

Cross-Stitch Designer:

http://www.hobbyware.com/

Stitch Designer:

http://www.trygames.com/game.php?aff=trygames& vid=6308493d4c53cea3319f4bac76ce26b9&linksh=&a mp;time_entered=

PM Stitch Creator:

http://www.stoik.com/stitch/

Plastic Canvas Design Studio:

http://www.plasticcanvassoftware.com/default.htm

Some of these software programs are shareware and most are very reasonable in price. It can't hurt to try them!