How would YOU hand quilt this?

[Juliet W.]

Well I posted the quilting design but I cannot see it, is this because it is a .png whatever that is? Can I fix this somehow?

[Juliet W.]

A friend changed the photo from png to jpg and now I hope it will work here ops:

[Margo C.]

Yes, Margarita, you will need to save it as a JPG or JPEG file to post on the forum or a Member Blog. I don't know if this will work for you, but this is how I do mine on a Windows 7 PC.

Navigate to your photo file and double click on it to open it. You will see a task bar at the top of the screen with the option to OPEN.
Click on OPEN to access the drop-down menu.
Select PAINT. This will put your photo in the MS Paint screen where you can do lots of useful tasks!
Click on the icon at the very top left of the screen to access the drop-down menu. (It will say PAINT if you hover over it with your cursor before you click)
Hover over SAVE AS to access the drop-down menu
Select JPEG
You will just need to navigate to the place where you want to save the photo so you can find it later, and click SAVE.

If you have two versions of the same photo in your PICTURES file and you don't know which one will work in TQS, you can just hover over one with your cursor and a dialog box will pop up with info about the photo including the type and size of the photo.

You can also re-size your photo in PAINT also!

Hope that helps!

[Margo C.]

Great design there. I really like it.

[Rita C.]

That's a lovely design Juliet - a lot of stitching! Good luck with it.

[Juliet W.]

Margo, thank you so much - again! This is obviously what my computer geek did for me but all explained in english, wonderful! The feathers might take me a while but I am hoping to whizz around the blocks with masking tape which takes the strain out considerably, no eyeballing just eyes open. I am so looking forward to stitching this, it is the first time I have ever marked a quilt top before stitching, just the feathers here but so worthwhile - I hope! Thanks again.

[Nancy R.]

I love the quilting design and can't wait to see the finished quilt! I hope your little fingers are flying...

Nancy

[Renata L.]

That is a beautiful design, Margarita--so perfect for the layout of blocks you have. Look forward to seeing it again--maybe a progress photo on the quilting?

[Juliet W.]

I'm busy marking the feathers now but yes, when I have a few blocks done I will post a photo. I am interested to see what it looks like too!

[Rita C.]

I am wondering what was the programme your friend used on a mac? I wish I had it too. Any chance you could find out and let me know please?

[Juliet W.]

Sure, I'll ask him - he was pretty impressed himself, I think he hadn't used it before and was enjoying playing around with it. He actually sorted out where I should begin on each block or rectangle so there wouldn't be any contiguous (next to each other?!) gaps!

[Juliet W.]

Wow! You better keep that boy around.

[Juliet W.]

Right you are Ritzy, how lucky am I? I wrote and asked him about it and here is his reply:

"The program I used is called Illustrator from Adobe, its expensive and very good but the learning curve is maybe a bit steep. This seems to be the best free equivalent http://inkscape.org/ the important thing is to establish a scale when you open the document the rest of it is practice, quite boring unless you have a creative goal in mind."

So for the computer clever among you there you have it, I think if I tried I would never get this quilt done! So Rita, I am sorry this is not a free programme included with your Mac but perhaps this information may be useful to you. Good Luck.

[Juliet W.]

This is so very interesting and very pretty design!! Wondering if you could post a picture when you have your blocks marked with masking tape.
A TQS shout out " A BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE" for all the great tips and ideas.

[Rita C.]

Thanks Juliet. I will have a look at the free link and see how that works. Good luck with your quilting.