samplerbot

[samplerbot]

DMC Color Key: ■ 26 Lavender Pale ■ 3845 Turquoise Bright Medium ■ 957 Geranium Pale

Dimensions: 231 by 123 stitches. Font: 'Optixal.ttf' by jeti. Border: Original Work.

beep! beep! I'm a bot that makes samplers out of tumblr posts and my own sets of custom and vintage borders.

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hi! cross stitcher here, I think this is a very cute concept but as it is the patterns are kind of unreadable due to the lack of gridding. are you planning on adding some way to count stitches/spaces in the future? jw!

Oh yes! Thank you for this ask-- short answer is "Yes, probably on Sunday!"

For the long answer, if I may be permitted to gush about the process for a moment… 😄

"What format should the samplers take?" is one of the main dilemmas that arose when building the bot. On the one hand, they need to 1. look beautiful, crisp, and legible, and on the other, they need to 2. be stitchable, but--

One of the earliest plans for the bot was for it to create full, complete patterns for each sampler: grid lines, symbols, and a key built into the bottom of the image-- basically recreating what WinStitch or PCStitch does. The key and symbols ideas never got off the ground (complicated to code), but I did get grid lines implemented.

They don't look good, though.

I would consider this version of a sampler to be failing at both points 1 and 2, neither looking very good nor being actually that good to stitch from. The grey lines wash out the color and break up the image and text, and the absence of symbols (and to a lesser extent centering lines, a key, and line counts) makes it subpar to work off of.

So my plan is to make two versions of each sampler: one, generated by the bot and uploaded to tumblr, and the other processed manually by me, the human, through WinStitch, with keys and symbols and a Pattern Keeper version and all that jazz. Hopefully, the best of both worlds. :)

Straight up, I didn't think anyone would even find the bot until Sunday at the earliest, so I was planning to process the first batch of samplers and upload them then. 😅 I'm thinking a Ko-Fi gallery to host the PDFs, since it lets you do 'free/pay-what-you-want'. I'll drop the link to those here when I do!

Thank you for the ask! I'm very happy to see the bot get a warm reception here. ^_^

[samplerbot]

DMC Color Key: ■ 310 Black ■ 3776 Mahogany Light ■ 3825 Pumpkin Pale ■ 611 Drab Brown ■ 760 Salmon

Dimensions: 193 by 145 stitches. Font: '04B_03__.TTF' by Yuji Oshimoto. Border: Adapted from 'The Priscilla Counted Cross Stitch Book no. 2', 1912, edited by Ethelyn Jones. Courtesy of the Antique Pattern Library.

beep! beep! I'm a bot that makes samplers out of tumblr posts and my own sets of custom and vintage borders.

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What a cool bot! Will it do requests?

Ohmygosh thank you! And-- yeah, go for it! Sending through asks or by dropping an @ would work.

The plan is for the bot to do a mix of requests + posts I send to it, eventually at rate of one every three days.... but it's in the early early beta now, so for now it can post a little more often than that, I think. ;)

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DMC Color Key: ■ 30 Blueberry Medium Light ■ 3761 Sky Blue Light ■ 3776 Mahogany Light

Dimensions: 149 by 149 stitches. Font: '04B_03__.TTF' by Yuji Oshimoto. Border: Original Work.

beep! beep! I'm a bot that makes samplers out of tumblr posts and my own sets of custom and vintage borders.

mike’s hard past couple of months

[samplerbot]

DMC Color Key: ■ 15 Apple Green ■ 162 Blue Ultra Very Light ■ 472 Avocado Green Ultra Light

Dimensions: 187 by 106 stitches. Font: 'TubeOfCorn.ttf' by Hazel Abbiati. Border: Adapted from 'Moderne Stickvorlagen no.548', H. K. Berlin, c.1900. Courtesy of the Antique Pattern Library.

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test post please ignore

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alrighty! nobody ought to be able to stumble upon this little guy yet, but this'll be where my cool new sampler bot will go after I uhhhhhhh finish coding it

will use this space for testing once i get something properly testable (🤞🤞🤞)

update: hell yea it's working

update update: secret alpha testing is done-- should be just about ready to go live!

Will make a proper intro post later on ✌️