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I have all the fabric for a quilt called Highlight and want to incorporate some dresden blocks and some split circles instead of some of the plain squares, I do have a large design wall but this is a queen size quilt and I am so stuck. Have seriously considered scanning individual components of blocks, printing them and colour photocopying to "play" with them and get it right. I just cannot "see" it on the design wall, or I have to cut all the blocks I think I will need and then find I have hacked up some gorgeous material un-necessarily. This is doing my head in, so then I looked on Amazon and see there is a thing called the Quilt Design Wizard. Would that help - I can spring for the $20 or so but the EQ7 is too expensive. Maybe there is a simple solution to this that I just don't know about. Just when I should really be making some simple quilted Christmas tree ornaments to send to my daughter in the UK this is doing my stubborn head in and I am loathe to leave it until 2013 unless I can work out what I am going to do!! :?Tags: None
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Before computers I would work on a see through paper put on top of the pattern print and then draw different suggestions to myself. I think you could do that to just get a visual feeling for how your ideas would work. This is just a pencil drawing.
Then you could put some colors on it, or even use blocks from a copy of your pattern and then play around with it in colors.
I think that EQ7 would help, but there is a learning curve there too.
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there was a show on TQS, I forget which one, where they showed just using the Paint program that comes on most computers. Take a photo (or draw a basic one in Paint) and then shrink the photo and copy, paste, etc. to get the layout you want. Could even do this in Word (insert photo, highlight, copy, paste) and in fact, maybe that was the program used.
Perhaps that would work for this? Like your photocopying idea, w/o actually having to print a bunch.
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Charlie Brown: The secret is to look fantastic at a distance
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Originally posted by Learning-As-I-Gothere was a show on TQS, I forget which one, where they showed just using the Paint program that comes on most computers. Take a photo (or draw a basic one in Paint) and then shrink the photo and copy, paste, etc. to get the layout you want. Could even do this in Word (insert photo, highlight, copy, paste) and in fact, maybe that was the program used.
Perhaps that would work for this? Like your photocopying idea, w/o actually having to print a bunch.
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Originally posted by Learning-As-I-Gothere was a show on TQS, I forget which one, where they showed just using the Paint program that comes on most computers. Take a photo (or draw a basic one in Paint) and then shrink the photo and copy, paste, etc. to get the layout you want. Could even do this in Word (insert photo, highlight, copy, paste) and in fact, maybe that was the program used.
Perhaps that would work for this? Like your photocopying idea, w/o actually having to print a bunch.
http://watch/watch-shows/video/show-...ng-with-thread
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No, Margo, it's an older show....maybe series 700 or 800......definitely was using either Word or Paint, and she showed how you can just insert photo (of your block or fabric or whatever), shrink it, copy that photo, paste it next to the 1st, then copy the 2, paste those 2 next to the first 2, then highlight the whole row and paste below for however many rows you wish to do. Fast and easy "design wall" method.
It *might* have been the show with the Mexican tile inspired quilts. I know she showed some ways of printing out the block and pasting onto little foam core samples, and she might be the one who showed also about the "high tech" way of doing it in Word. Can't remember for sure. anyway, it's a good little trick
It's Not What You Gather, But What You Scatter
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For what it's worth...Electric Quilt 7 costs $189.95 USD http://electricquilt.com/online-shop/electric-quilt-7/
PhotoShop Elements is usually about $100 but you can find it on sale for $49 http://dealshout.com/computers/adobe...FQGFnQodvSkASw
And there are free trial downloads: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/in...nts&loc=us
Of course, any software requires a learning curve. On line classes for using PSE for designing quilts are available through Step On Pins: http://moodle.steponpins.com/
It's Not What You Gather, But What You Scatter
That Tells What Kind Of Life You Have Lived !
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Good catch Heather!!! An excellent show to revisit! The info we are looking for starts at minute 19:25
http://watch/watch-shows/video/show-...nspired-quilts
It's Not What You Gather, But What You Scatter
That Tells What Kind Of Life You Have Lived !
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