I will be starting EG on Saturday and I have a stupid newbie question. I have picked out a piece of 32 ct days gone by from Silkweaver and I'm a centre
starter, meaning I will be starting with the fish pond. I also will be working 2 strands over 2 squares (I hope I said that correctly).
Anyway my problem is the centre is a bicone bead which I won't be adding until the end of the project so I was planning on counting away from the bead and starting where there is regular stitches, so my question is this - how many squares do I count away from to make sure there is enough room for the bead. This will be my first time working on 32 ct so I'm not clear on counting over . The paper pattern has the 'a' symbol in the centre of 4 squares [two up and two across] which leaves me to believe I need to count 2 squares over for every one square on the paper pattern. I hope I am making sense.
Any help would be appreciated.
PS has any chatelaine ever been done on 16 ct. My mother only uses 16 ct because of her eye sight and would love to do Evening in the Park but with all the specialty stitches I don't think it would work.
Anyway my problem is the centre is a bicone bead which I won't be adding until the end of the project so I was planning on counting away from the bead and starting where there is regular stitches, so my question is this - how many squares do I count away from to make sure there is enough room for the bead. This will be my first time working on 32 ct so I'm not clear on counting over . The paper pattern has the 'a' symbol in the centre of 4 squares [two up and two across] which leaves me to believe I need to count 2 squares over for every one square on the paper pattern. I hope I am making sense.
Any help would be appreciated.
PS has any chatelaine ever been done on 16 ct. My mother only uses 16 ct because of her eye sight and would love to do Evening in the Park but with all the specialty stitches I don't think it would work.
-Kathy 
