My current project is a birthday present for a friend. I've done one piece already and blocked it up - that one was tunisian crochet with a different symbol. For this one I wanted to try out knitting a big rectangle and then using a duplicate knit stitch for my color work. It doesn't matter if it's crochet or tunisian or knitting, changing colors is a huge hassle. Also, different mediums have different dimensions so my original pattern meant for tunisian isn't going to work for knitting. Is there such a thing as knitting graph paper? My stockinette knit stitches are much shorter than crochet or tunisian stitches (and normal tunisian stitches turned out taller than tunisian knit stitches - why can't everything just be nice and square?). I have a feeling that cross stitch and I are going to be the best of friends once I get around to actually working on the patterns I've made. Too many ideas and not enough time.
My stitches seem like they're about 20 per 4 inches in a column and about 15 per 4 inches in a row so I'm going to set my excel sheet up for 40 pixel columns and 30 pixel rows and overlay a picture and place my stitches.
Using my same width of 41 stitches wide (plus 2 for each side = 45 total), the length comes out to 69 stitches high plus some garter stitch on the top and bottom. I've got my rectangle made now so I just have to see how the shape comes out once the duplicate stitches are placed. Are you supposed to block before or after you do duplicate stitch?....
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