Today I had a One to One with my favorite trainer, Paul, at the Apple Legacy Village Store. Yesterday on the Needlepoint Group Facebook page there was a lot of discussion about how to do simple needlepoint stitch diagrams without buying an expensive program. Paul and I went through the steps and took screen shots. Hope this helps anyone that needs it!
Steps to make a needlepoint stitch diagram in Pages:
Open pages
Choose blank in page layout
To make grid:
Choose table from the tool bar (the table inspector should automatically open)
With table highlighted, Click on middle header/footer and change to 0 to get rid of grey area
go to body rows and body columns to add to grid
To make grid even: select entire table, uncheck automatically resize and change column width and column height to the same number.
To make the lines of the grid bolder, select entire table and change cell border to 3 pt.
To make “stitches”:
Change from table inspector to graphic inspector which is 2 to the left of table inspector.
Click shapes in top tool bar, choose line
Then move line to white area
To change thickness of line, have line highlighted and change to 5 pt., (in the graphic inspector) change color, and length of line.
Then drag line to grid, approximately where you want it and adjust position using end dots.
To make additional lines, click line and then hold option key and click and drag the line where you want it to be.
(Option key and dragging copies what ever is select, leaving the original in place. Faster than copy/paste)
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Thanks for sharing. Hugs to you!!!!!
Posted by: Robin King | July 09, 2012 at 08:55 PM
Hope it helps!!! Hugs back!
Thank you!
Barbara Bergsten
www.barbarabergstendesigns.com
designer@barbarabergstendesigns.com
Telephone: 440-227-9018
FAX: 720-247-7408
Posted by: Create Needlepoint | July 09, 2012 at 08:57 PM
You are my hero! (Paul, too, but mostly you.)
Jane, off to link to this from the CH Stitch Guides blog....
Posted by: Jane/Chilly Hollow | July 09, 2012 at 09:49 PM
Thank you. Paul is the best!!! Hope this helps everyone. Especially thank you for the link!!!
Thank you!
Barbara Bergsten
www.barbarabergstendesigns.com
designer@barbarabergstendesigns.com
Telephone: 440-227-9018
FAX: 720-247-7408
Posted by: Create Needlepoint | July 10, 2012 at 05:08 AM
Thanks Barbara, I'm going to try it because I'm not particularly happy with my kludgey solution (which is why I didn't offer it on FB).
Keep Stitching,
Janet
Posted by: A Facebook User | July 10, 2012 at 01:03 PM
So glad it help!! Good Luck!
Thank
you!
Barbara
Bergsten
www.barbarabergstendesigns.com
designer@barbarabergstendesigns.com
Telephone: 440-227-9018
FAX: 720-247-7408
In a message dated 7/10/2012 1:03:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Posted by: Create Needlepoint | July 10, 2012 at 01:12 PM
This will really help me get my stitch guides done quickly. Thank you! But I have one problem. When I try to drag the line to the table, it just moves the table down the page. It doesn't let me put it on top of the table. Am I missing a step?
Posted by: Jan Fitzpatrick | July 10, 2012 at 02:55 PM
Make sure the table isnt selected. Just the line. Hope that works!
Thank you!
Barbara Bergsten
www.barbarabergstendesigns.com
designer@barbarabergstendesigns.com
Telephone: 440-227-9018
FAX: 720-247-7408
Posted by: Create Needlepoint | July 10, 2012 at 03:19 PM
My husband figured it out! Go to Wrap in the Inspector and make sure you have "Floating - doesn't move with text" selected. Then it works like a charm. Thank you for doing this Barbara. I've already created one of my motifs using this method and I'm pleased!
Posted by: Jan Fitzpatrick | July 10, 2012 at 08:43 PM
Im so happy for you!!!
Thank you!
Barbara Bergsten
www.barbarabergstendesigns.com
designer@barbarabergstendesigns.com
Telephone: 440-227-9018
FAX: 720-247-7408
Posted by: Create Needlepoint | July 10, 2012 at 08:46 PM