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"D.M.Evans" skrev i melding

The corrections- I saw them myself. But be warned, your corrections won't
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I only see the mistakes once I read them on the return, I don't know why
that is. It could be, my mind works very fast and I am ADD: I get
dyslexic
in the details. My work as a nurse doesn't depend on composing, so online
is
my only creative work. My strenght is in observing the human body and
mind.

You wouldn't happen to come of Mid-Western stock, eh? When I read your post
out loud, it sounded remarkably like my father...before he eased into
speaking more like a West Virginian. He grew up in the thumb-crook of
Michigan.

I've always been very dyslexic. Both parents are dyslexic, and so it was my
fate to be that way as well. I've trained myself to hide...but when I'm
tired, I'll start reversing letters. It's funny...even when I'm typing at a
keyboard, I'll reverse letters. I think my brain calls up the images of the
letters as I type them, so when it calls up a reversed image...I type a
reversed letter.

It's even more fun when I accidentally leave out whole sections of
sentances...
Becky A.

I'm glad they let you copy it. It would be nice if copiers were
standardized. I swear every one I've used has a different "zero" corner
(where it starts the copy). That does make it very hard to figure out
how to place the original when trying to enlarge something. I confess
I've never tried doing a working copy on legal paper. The last few I've
done have been on my parents' home copier and they don't have legal
sized paper on hand. How do you keep the curl from getting out of hand
if you are scrolling it as you work?

D.M.Evans wrote:
I was in one copying center and when they saw it was copyright material,
they wouldn't do it, but instead set the copier up so I could do it. I was
just worried about figuring out were to place the work and what selections
to make. I used legal sized paper and scroll it up when done or so I only
see the portion I need, instead of folding and making creases.

I use the little colored sticky flags - like the "sign here" flags that we
use on pleadings and letters, but without the "sign here" on them. They seem
to hold there "stickiness" better for repositioning.

what the heck is the technical name for those things? I love them, use the
little things at work everyday in statute books and in marking important
parts of records on appeal, at home in my cookbooks and craft books, and on
my charts, but have no idea what to call them other than flags.

Flags they are--at least according to the 3M people.

ragamuffin2004 wrote:
what the heck is the technical name for those things? I love them, use the
little things at work everyday in statute books and in marking important
parts of records on appeal, at home in my cookbooks and craft books, and on
my charts, but have no idea what to call them other than flags.
--
Brenda

ragamuffin2004 wrote:

what the heck is the technical name for those things? I love them, use the
little things at work everyday in statute books and in marking important
parts of records on appeal, at home in my cookbooks and craft books, and on
my charts, but have no idea what to call them other than flags.



I think they are called Post-It flags. I could be wrong, but that's what
my sleep deprived memory is telling me.

Rachel

Becky,
I'm from Canada( Eastern Ontario) My mind doesn't sit still ( though my body
sure likes to),sometimes I can't find the word I want. Or I can't pronounce
if it's uncommon or too long of a word; I am busy thinking what I want to
say next. But the strangest thing is that I will type a word that will be
perfect in spelling, but is not the word I meant to spell. For example for
the word- word, I typed work. But I can tell you most people that have met
me say I am exactly the way that I am online.

I know what you mean Becky, it is not something that you asked for, or
wanted. I do not get math or anything that deals calculations. I can cross
stitch but I need to forever remind myself what the counts mean and how to
use a graph to calculate material. I can never sew as measurement is a such
an important skill. I wish that the floss didn't have numbers but only
names!


Darlene

I also make working copy if the pattern is too large or from the magazine
pages that needs to be taped to get a full chart. My eyes are not that good
anymore so I copy them in 125% so it will be larger symbols/pattern to my
eyes. I dont mark my patterns, I just know where I stopped but since I have
a lot of projects in rotation, it make me confused where I stopped. I use
pencil to encircle the symbol and next time I know where I will start. I
dont like markings in my original chart and dont like too many folds either.

I prefer to work in black and white but not all charts are in black & white.
Colored charts are hard to read IMO, same red color in too many alike
symbols. I tend to make a lot of mistakes when charts are in color like the
ones in Dimensions. Not to mention that they're very expensive ($1.84 per
page 3 yrs ago where I used to live). If the project is from Dimension, I
use the original chart.

Mira

--
http://home.comcast.net/~miralyn



"Pat EAXStitch" wrote in message
...
It`s OK photocopying just for your own use - I think most of us do that,
as
charts are nearly always small enough to blind you! None of like marking
the original chart, either and if you don`t mark it, it takes so much
longer
if you have to keep finding where you were again!

Pat P

Becky Andresen wrote:


You wouldn't happen to come of Mid-Western stock, eh? When I read your post
out loud, it sounded remarkably like my father...before he eased into
speaking more like a West Virginian. He grew up in the thumb-crook of
Michigan.

By thumb crook, do you mean the thumb of the mitten, lower peninsula?
What town? I am originally from Bad Axe, MI.

It's funny...even when I'm typing at a
keyboard, I'll reverse letters. I think my brain calls up the images of the
letters as I type them, so when it calls up a reversed image...I type a
reversed letter.

Well, I do that too, and I'm not dyslexic. I was told in high school
that reversing letters is the most common mistake typists make, has
nothing to do with dyslexia.

Barbara HJ

Darla wrote:

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:33:03 -0400, "D.M.Evans"
wrote:

How do people keep track of where they are in a pattern? For my cross
stitch, I have lately been blowing up the graft and then highlighting as I
go. I use a dry marker so that it won't bleed. Now I know that photocopy the
graft is really against copy write, but most grafts are way too small in my
opinion. I can't decide if I like coloured grafts with symbols or just
symbols.

Darlene

It's graph, not graft. And copyright (one word), not copy write (or
copywrite). I make a stitcher's copy--a single-use photocopy which is
not only unreadable by the time I'm finished stitching, but also gets
destroyed once I'm done. Depending upon the project, I may use an
ordinary graphite pencil, colored pencils, or highlighters, or even a
combination of those three.

I'm echoing Darla. I make a working copy. If the chart is at all difficult to
read - confusing or similar symbols, or just small, then I enlarge to make the
working copy. Some pieces may have 2, 3, 4 pages for the working copy. I put the
pages not in use in a page protector sleeve with the original. Then I just work
on the copy, and mark in fine highlighter what's been stitched. If I do
something other than the chart says - like a stitch in a different thread, and I
don't want to remove it, then I mark that box in INK, or some other color, and
continue with highlighting over it as it was stitched. I keep a little post-it
stuck somewhere with my "key" of any personal notes - like the stitch symbol key
on the chart. If I make the indication of a changed stitch on my working copy,
and have to go back and recount, then I don't get confused (don't ask about the
experience when I didn't annotate a change).

Whatever works. I think the little sticky flags are a good idea as well. I just
like marking thru the chart itself so that it's very obvious where I've worked
(mostly on big things).

IME most designers don't mind you using a working copy. Some expressly note that
it's okay. I, like Darla, destroy my tattered photocopies when I'm done. I also
don't sell my used charts - even though they generally look pristine - IMHO that
starts getting into the copyright murk.

Happy stitchin'
Ellice