Electric Quilt
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There's a software program called Electric Quilt that I heard about years ago but had forgotten about until it was mentioned in one of the craft business books I read recently. In fact I read that part while we were in Las Vegas, so anytime we were chillin' in our room, I was on my laptop studying this program. I purchased it when we got home.
I haven't had as much time as I would have liked to work with it but now I should be able to. As soon as it arrived I actually started with page one of the lessons in the manual (I know, me?) and I'm about on Lesson 4 I think. I envision this program doing two things for me. This program contains 4000 quilt blocks, 5000 scanned fabrics and 62 teaching videos, among other things like borders, quilting patterns. So I should be able to scale down copyright-free quilts to tiny and print them on different sheets of cardstock, cut them apart and put them back together again as colorful quilts. I want to do this with well known recognizable quilt blocks as well as design my own little quilts. I've been wanting to do this anyway but this stuff would be perfect for that upcoming Valentown Museum Gift Shop opportunity.
You can design your own embroidery and applique so I'm thinking this will allow me to design my own patterns for my paper embroidery. Then I can say my paper art is truly my own. I've been using Erica Fortgens patterns from books. I'd been planning to make my own designs but until I was reminded of this program, I was ready to go at it with a compass, protractor and graph paper! How old school is that?? I'm sure at some point I would have started looking for software to help me but I'm so glad this software found me.
It's cool too because the tutorials are narrated by Penny McMorris, one of the co-founders of the program. I used to watch her quilting show on PBS back in the day.
Check out this outstanding parquet coffee table designed by Gisela Towner, crafted by her husband. The program can also be used for floor designs, stained glass.
Pretty cool, huh? I can't wait to dig in.
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There's a software program called Electric Quilt that I heard about years ago but had forgotten about until it was mentioned in one of the craft business books I read recently. In fact I read that part while we were in Las Vegas, so anytime we were chillin' in our room, I was on my laptop studying this program. I purchased it when we got home.I haven't had as much time as I would have liked to work with it but now I should be able to. As soon as it arrived I actually started with page one of the lessons in the manual (I know, me?) and I'm about on Lesson 4 I think. I envision this program doing two things for me. This program contains 4000 quilt blocks, 5000 scanned fabrics and 62 teaching videos, among other things like borders, quilting patterns. So I should be able to scale down copyright-free quilts to tiny and print them on different sheets of cardstock, cut them apart and put them back together again as colorful quilts. I want to do this with well known recognizable quilt blocks as well as design my own little quilts. I've been wanting to do this anyway but this stuff would be perfect for that upcoming Valentown Museum Gift Shop opportunity.
You can design your own embroidery and applique so I'm thinking this will allow me to design my own patterns for my paper embroidery. Then I can say my paper art is truly my own. I've been using Erica Fortgens patterns from books. I'd been planning to make my own designs but until I was reminded of this program, I was ready to go at it with a compass, protractor and graph paper! How old school is that?? I'm sure at some point I would have started looking for software to help me but I'm so glad this software found me.
It's cool too because the tutorials are narrated by Penny McMorris, one of the co-founders of the program. I used to watch her quilting show on PBS back in the day.
Check out this outstanding parquet coffee table designed by Gisela Towner, crafted by her husband. The program can also be used for floor designs, stained glass.Pretty cool, huh? I can't wait to dig in.
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