After an inadvertent two week hiatus, the SBQ is back with the following question:
When you stitch a pattern that you have downloaded do you print out the pattern or do you stitch directly from your computer screen?
When I first discovered cross stitch charts online I didn’t just download them, I printed as many as my ink jet cartridge would allow. However, as time went on and I literally found thousands of patterns online I printed charts as I decided to stitch them. I printed charts for much the same reason that I printed journal articles I found online: I believed it was easier to stitch (or read) from paper as opposed to directly from the computer screen.
Then I moved back to the United States.
Now I am sure you are wondering why this is a significant factor in the whole printing vs. stitching directly from the computer screen dilemma and the reason is that when I decided to move back to the US I opted to leave the charts that I had printed out behind. I had the charts downloaded and burned on disk anyway and it was much easier (and cheaper!) to move them that way than try to move a couple of pounds of paper.
I had every intention of reverting back to the method of printing the charts off as I decided to stitch them, but I ran into a slight problem: I had (and still have) no printer at home. There were times when I could access a printer, but of course this never coincided with a time when I was moved by the urge to stitch one of the charts that I had downloaded. Therefore, I learned to stitch directly from the computer screen and have been doing so quite successfully for about a year now.
I still print out charts that I have downloaded now and then when I remember to put the chart on my flash drive, take it to work, and print it out, but these days I mostly stitch from the computer screen.
The only downfall that I have found is that it is extremely difficult to stitch from the computer screen and watch DVDs on the computer at the same time!
Annette says:
Great timing! I was just posting about an online chart I’d stitched for an exchange
http://www.annettesacre.com/stitchblog/?p=53
26 March 2008 at 21:34
Kristy says:
posted
26 March 2008 at 22:00
Jan says:
Mine’s up too!!!
26 March 2008 at 22:18
Kyrie says:
I answered
26 March 2008 at 22:26
Lynn says:
Posted.
26 March 2008 at 22:38
~Kim~ says:
Mine was just posted. Thanks!
~Kim~
27 March 2008 at 05:12
Jen says:
My answer is posted.
27 March 2008 at 05:54
Berta says:
Posted my response.
27 March 2008 at 07:41
Valerie says:
Good question! My answer is up.
27 March 2008 at 08:18
Meari says:
Mine’s up.
27 March 2008 at 10:35
Kathryn says:
Posted.
27 March 2008 at 14:15
Allura says:
Mine’s up. Thanks!
27 March 2008 at 16:00
Outi says:
Mine’s up!
My luck with watching DVDs and stitching from the screen is that I mostly stitch my own designs so I can get them in image format and just set the image viewer to be on top of all applications. Then just a minor adjustment of the viewer’s window size and voilá.
28 March 2008 at 00:19
Laura says:
Posted!
29 March 2008 at 09:41
Rachel says:
I posted this weeks question.
http://gabbys-mom21.blogspot.com/
30 March 2008 at 10:33
Kate says:
Answered!
30 March 2008 at 17:37
Anne R says:
I’ve posted too! Getting back to posting my answers to the sbq’s, slowly but surely…
31 March 2008 at 00:33
Jenny says:
My answer is up.
31 March 2008 at 18:38
Melissa says:
Mine’s up.
1 April 2008 at 13:05