52I want to see this pattern in my yarn

Give the pattern's colours your own yarns and look at the designer's photos again - beta

Before you start

The Colour Swatcher is a beta and off by default. Turn it on in Settings → Assisted Features → Colour Swatcher.
It is an assisted feature, so it is also hidden entirely while Turn AI off completely is on - switch that off first, or the row cannot be switched on.
A pattern with photographs. On a project, the project needs a linked pattern.
Works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web.

Turn It On

Go to Settings → Assisted Features and switch on Colour Swatcher. It carries a BETA badge, and like every row on that screen it states what it sends before you agree to it.

What is sent: nothing about you. The pattern's own public description is read to work out how many colours the garment takes. Your yarn, your stash and your photos are never sent, and finding the garment in the photograph is done by Stash2Go's own models on our server.

Find It on a Pattern or a Project

Colour Swatcher on a project's Pattern tab, with its beta badge, Show what was found, Look again, and the first colour ready to assign

Open a pattern and go to its Yarns tab - the Colour Swatcher sits there. On a project with a pattern linked, it is on the Pattern tab instead. Either way it starts by reading the pattern's colours, then paints its photos.

Give Each Colour a Yarn

The pattern's colours are listed as Colour 1, Colour 2 and so on. For each one, Pick offers three ways to answer:

Your yarns - choose from the yarn you already own, so what you are looking at is a garment you could actually cast on tonight.
Photograph a yarn - point the camera at a skein and it takes the colour from the middle of the frame. Fill the frame with the yarn; if the middle is not clearly one colour it says so and asks you to try again.
… or any colour - a colour picker, for the yarn you are thinking about buying.

Tip: Clear puts a colour back to the designer's original, so you can change your mind about one colour without starting over.

Look at the Result Honestly

The photos are repainted in your colours, and you can open any of them fullscreen. Treat it as an impression, not a rendering: how close it gets depends on the photograph and on how clearly the pattern describes its colours. It shows you whether a colour scheme works, not what your finished garment will look like.

Show what was found reveals which parts of each photograph it identified as the garment - useful when a result looks odd, because it usually explains why. Look again asks it to have another go.

Worth knowing

Why some patterns are left alone: A pattern knitted in cream, natural, grey or white has no colour to swap, so the photos are shown as they are.
Why a photo is sometimes skipped: If the pattern's colour also fills the background, swapping it would repaint the whole picture, not the garment. It says so rather than doing it.
Colour on a screen: No screen shows yarn truly - dye lots, daylight and your own display all move it. Use this to compare schemes, and a real swatch to commit.

Planning colours from scratch? See Plan Your Color Palette. Choosing between yarns you own: Stash Matchmaker.

Available on iPhone, iPad, Android, and web at app.stash2go.com

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