I have fed "Stable Stuff" sheets through the laser printer this time. Last time I used tweezers to pull out all of the paper in the hundreds of little geese blocks. I won't want to leave the stable stuff in the areas that I will quilt, so I will cut that away when the time comes. Otherwise it will just remain in the quilt.
Although I do many things on my computer, when it comes to designing a quilt I am the hands on, graph paper, fly by the seat of my pants kind. I usually have a general idea how I'm going, but I let ideas blossom as I work on the piece, as it usually takes a while to finish.
I have never become proficient at EQ enough to design anything beyond what they have in their libraries. For me, it is mostly a tool for printing basic block patterns. I went a really crazy round about way to make a completed quilt top design that I could color in with pencils.
I took a photo of my quilt, did various things in ipad apps to give myself a line drawing, and set off to draw lines. I know... how old fashioned. I'm thinking of getting out my graph paper and trying it.. But for what I want, this will work. I'll make copies of this and then use colored pencils to get different color placement ideas. I plan on using all solid hand dyed fabrics. I have a bunch of Cherrywood pieces that I could use. That is the best thing about miniatures, you don't need much.
So, I finally have made a move toward getting something started at least. I have two at various stages on my design wall, one only needs quilted, the other needs a border pieced first.
I hope that you all are doing well, it is starting to get pretty chilly here!
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