I have also added more individual pages from the ALPHABET SAMPLERS book
[978-0-9730137-9-5], including a test layout page with multiple fonts on one
page.

Someone asked for more from the CLASSICAL LADIES book [978-0-9730137-7-1],
there are some more but they are not in final book form at this time.
I was only planning for 10 projects in the book itself so I have to think
about given away most of the book before publishing it.
My estate might actual want to make some money on the books,
someday......lol.

I might post some charts from other books, such as the LANDSCAPES book
[978-0-9730137-8-8] in planning stage.

I think I'm seeing as time goes by why it costs so much to purchase the
individual patterns. Not so bad when you have a charting program to help do
some of the work, but it is the time cleaning up and laying out the charts
that is the pain. It costs about 5-10 mins. of work time to do the convert
but it is the final proofing and everything related to make a good looking
chart that everyone can read. If the charts were just for myself then just
the hand drawn ones for smaller designs, or the general program version
would do most of the time but not when others are to actually use the
pattern years later.
FYI. On average, the alphabets each take about 1-4 hours to do, while the
"Lady" took up to 2 months for the final version [b/w version was fast to
put online cause it was done already]

Currently the charts are in program files to have them look better than hand
drawn. While book format means in a layout that is for the actual book such
as the alphabet test layout page. Also with the program I have to make sure
that it is doing cross stitch, and not blackwork, knitting, or one of their
other type that the program can do.

For those that might want to know.
Been doing designs and artwork in some form for over 30 years including
almost a decade as an engraver, not the joke type today that the computer
does the work. Compared to charts, engraving was at sizes that were at time
as small as 1/200th of the original. That means, when I drew on a 8 x 11
page the design would be reduced by 200 times, so if I had 50 lines in 10
cm's it would be the same 50 lines in 1/2 mm. Done needlework, but only
moved over to cross stitching in 2005 when I had to start radiation
treatment and the ones I did then were the tiny round frame kits. I wanted
to try bigger charts, but either they were costly and/or nothing that I
liked in the sizes I wanted. At first did my charts by hand completely, but
that was time consuming so I found some trial charting programs till I
picked my favorite, Easy Cross 2004 from England.

J. Howard Trenouth
Blue Dragon Productions/Classics