How do you all find your 'place' on the chart?

[Angel]

*nodnod* I use my Faber castel black brush, because the colour goes on but you can still see through to the black print, so it's great to see where you are at a glaance, but I can still see for like backstitch and if I have to frog.

[sammy_v]

Hi Paul welcome to the forum, i agree to use a light colour incase u miss a stitch etc, then u can got back and see, also for the back stitching to.

[nicgoss]

I use a yellow highlighter to mark the work i've done or I lose where I am. You can then still see through the highlighter - if you want to use the chart again but you can see where you've been. Nice and quick to use too!

[Little Stitcher]

have to agree with u nic highlighters are the best...
i usually try and do bits of one colour and often dont mark off til sections are completed. When i do i often use a highlighter just to emphasise bits of where i have to start counting from - often get lost on bigger chart when stitches are long and quite similar position. once ive done most sections i use a mechanical pencil - just hope if i rub it out it wont rub off pattern lines

[Alexanie]

I don't mark the stitches on coloured patterns but used a highlighter with the Tatty-Teddy-chart cause it had just symbols and you get crazy counting these close grey colours.

[PaulaH]

I use a highlighter on a copy of the chart and my magnetic LoRan board - I've got a couple in different sizes and they're a godsend!

Paula xx

[Dazbo666]

I tend to use either the original or preferably a photocopy, and mark off in pencil or hi-lighter as i go thru it.

the design I'm doing at the moment is quite large, so I have a long elastic band over the front of the design and around the frame, so it holds the pattern on to the front of the frame

[Junction]

I highlight areas as I go, or a use a sticky note. My best friend also uses a highlighter or marker. I have used pencil to mark off charts before, but they always make a mess as i am handling the chart.

[Daesania]

Yellow highlighter to plan which stitches i'm going to do (the one i'm doing now is very complicated and all over the place), and when I'm completed, i use a pink highlighter to create an orange color for the areas that are done.

[Becca]

I use pencil to colour the squares i have done. I like pencil because if i do make a mistake i can just rub it out, and if i need to see the backstitch lines more clearly at the end i can rub it out too. I keep my pattern on a clipboard.

[nettie]

I used to use pencil but found this a pain on black n white charts. I now photocopy the chart as I sometimes enlarge them too and use a highlighter to mark off rows or odd stitches as I go. I can also still see (not that I want to) where the backstitching is meant to be.

[Angel]

Angel is going to be a geek now. On her smaller projects like cards and stuff, she scans the picture, but because she's run out of ink she can't make a photocopy, so she loads it up onto Paintshop pro and adds a new layer where I mark off the stitches I've done, then turn down the opacity if I need to frog so I can see where to erase the colour. Then when I'm done, simply delete the layer and I'm left with my blank chart for marking my backstitch ^_^

[carolyn61]

What a bright Angel you are! I am amazed and impressed.

[Angel]

hehe it also works if you don't have any artistic programs, pretty much everything comes with normal paint. Save the photocopy twice, mark of the first one for your stitches, then use the second for your back stitch.

Also if you upload it onto photobucket, you don't have to carry your chart around with you when you take your stitching to work, just log onto your photobucket when you be comfy

[Mabel Figworthy]

Clever Angel! But er, doesn't that mean you have to stitch at your computer?

[agi]

Why, don't you stitch at your computer????

[Mabel Figworthy]

I have been known to...

Mine is a very old computer which has to be rebooted (or just given the boot) every so often, and I do occasionally put in a stitch or two while I wait for it to stop sulking; however, although I am strictly speaking at the computer while stitching, the computer is not actually any use at that time

[Angel]

If I didn't stitch at my computer....where would I stitch? How would I talk on here or with my boyfriend? *looks confused*

[~threadbear~]

I mostly stitch while at the computer or with the laptop here with me.
I love to read through the forum or go on chat while I'm working on a piece.

[Angel]

Same here... that and Angel only has her computer chair to sit on