I have a cross stitch maker soft ware program. If you want to send me a photo, I can run it through the software and see what comes from it.
Let me know how many stitches per inch you want to do (14, 22, and 24 are most common) and how big of a finished peice you want it to be.
Also, this program will put in a HUGE number of colors (up to 200) so it is really detailed but no back stitching/outlining. I can do some editing to lower the color count but the lower the color count, the less detailed it will be. It will give a thread count for each color and the color list for the floss.
Can't make any guarentees that the photo will work well as a cross stitch pattern but I'll give it a try.
I'll do unedited (200 color) for free but if you want the colors reduced (something I have to do manually and it takes time) then I'll offer a reasonable price.
Here are some examples (this pic was borrowed from a "free pictures" website. The format I saved these in doesn't do a very good job with the pics for posting...the actual looks much better. Example...in the "virtual stitches" of the cross stitch pattern, it almost looks like it is plaid but it's really not. This is just to give you an idea of what my software can do. This is set for 22 stitches per inch.
This is the original photo
This is unedited with 200 colors
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.../cross stitch/chickencrossstitch200colors.jpg
This is edited to 150 colors
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/DancingwatersDesigns/cross stitch/chicken150colors.jpg
And for this photo, the minimum colors I would recommend...98
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/DancingwatersDesigns/cross stitch/chicken98colors.jpg
email the photos to me at
[email protected]
I am looking for a silkie pattern. I found a reference on a website that says a pattern was in the Apr. 2005 issue of Cross Stitch Crazy. Has anyone seen it, and is it any good? Any idea where I can find one? Thanks!
