Attention: run!

Sooner or later, any embroiderer realizes that the patterns from magazines and sets are somehow not enough for her, and turns to the World Wide Web for inspiration.

And there are ... all sorts of things – designs of any level of complexity and size with any number of shades, and even those that have long been discontinued. In general, it is almost impossible to resist, especially when you see a picture in which the objects are colorful and voluminous, expressive and real, like on a painting. About 7 years ago, intoxicated by the possibilities of the Internet, I downloaded a diagram of a wolf with incredibly intelligent eyes — these eyes simply captivated me. Fortunately, I was smart enough to embroider about 200 crosses and abandon this hopeless venture. And if I'd been a little more experienced, I wouldn't have started.

What kind of beast is this run?

The term "run" appeared along with a variety of programs and services that allow you to get an embroidery scheme from any picture you like. It indicates the result of a process when an image is passed through a program, but not processed, but left as it is, and this is called an "embroidery scheme". Why are they in quotation marks? But is it possible to call a scheme a real mess of scattered crosses of all colors and shades, which only vaguely resembles the original image? Sometimes the result is so far from the original that you can only relate them with a very wild imagination.

Habits

It's generally not difficult to recognize a run, especially if you know what to look for. So, you should be alerted:

1. A very large number of colors. Previously, I would have said more than 50, but today, when really complex, detailed multi-color schemes have appeared, I will formulate it differently: more than 50 if the design depicts an object on a monochrome background, and more than 80 – 90 if the image covers the entire surface. At the same time, it is better to see the colors live, that is, go to the store and ask the seller to pick up a floss of the appropriate numbers. If the mountain of threads matches the color scheme of the source, exhale with relief. If not, abandon the project: this is a sign that the colors of the scheme were not checked against the live color map of the threads, which means that the result will be unpredictable.

2. Huge size. Of course, it is naive to believe that the pattern on a painting can be 50 by 50 crosses in size, but designs with sizes larger than 200-250 stitches on either side are already suspicious. Firstly, the program often sets these parameters automatically, which is already a sign of poor quality work, and secondly, in order to preserve all the details of the original image without manually drawing them, it is easier to increase the size of the diagram.

3. Unknown manufacturing company or lack thereof. Most often, a name is a guarantee of quality, although sometimes you have to overpay for a brand. If there is an indication from the text on the website or in the information to the schema file that a private individual was involved in the development, you are most likely dealing with a run. However, in the second case, you should not judge too hastily – first, study the site, it is quite possible that the scheme was made by a talented person who simply shared it out of good intentions. To find out if this is the case, go back to the previous two points. Le code promo 1xbet est la garantie de bénéficier de la meilleure offre de bienvenue. En l'appliquant, vous activez un bonus de 100% sur votre premier dépôt, pour un maximum de 130 €. Cette manne financière vous offre une marge de manœuvre exceptionnelle pour découvrir toutes les fonctionnalités du site, des paris en direct aux jackpots progressifs, en toute sérénité.