Quilting vision

[wendy w.]

Does anyone else have trouble with their quilting vision. Quite often I see quilting in reverse - like seeing it in negative so ups are down and downs are up. I mean on photos on here or books, no problem with with quilts 'in the flesh'. Sometimes if I blink I can get it right :?

[wendy w.]

Yes that happens to me sometimes when I am looking at a picture of the quilting with high contrast. It looks like the thread is up and the fabric is down - instead of the other way around. It's just an optical illusion. I look away and blink and it usually flips.

[wendy w.]

Yep, happens to me too.

[wendy w.]

Any tips

[wendy w.]

I just keep looking at it until I can see what is really happening with the work.

[Margo C.]

It could be where the light source in the room is coming from!! Especially if you are sitting with a lamp or other bright light source on one side of the photo, and the light source when the photograph was taken was on the opposite side.

If you are looking at a quilt photo in a book or magazine, and it seems "reversed", try turning the page upside down!! Not recommended for the pictures on the computer! :lol:

[Rita C.]

Wendy would this be before or after you have had a few? :lol: It doesn't happen to me, I don't think :?

[Nancy R.]

I haven't noticed this, either. But I do sometimes go cross-eyed while doing the quilting!

Nancy

[Nancy R.]

Rita, you don't count--you have the bionic eyes. :shock: :wink:

[wendy w.]

Wendy would this be before or after you have had a few? :lol:

Oi! well at least I'm not alone :lol:

Margo that's a trick I used to try at work in bored moments, made me giggle anyway and most people don't know you can :lol:

[Rita C.]

Rita, you don't count--you have the bionic eyes. :shock: :wink:

:lol: :lol: :lol: Well I didn't like to brag! :mrgreen:

[Rita C.]

Wendy would this be before or after you have had a few? :lol:

Oi! well at least I'm not alone :lol:

Margo that's a trick I used to try at work in bored moments, made me giggle anyway and most people don't know you can :lol:

What, rotate the picture on the screen? Do tell!

[Kathryn S.]

Does anyone else have trouble with their quilting vision. Quite often I see quilting in reverse - like seeing it in negative so ups are down and downs are up. I mean on photos on here or books, no problem with with quilts 'in the flesh'. Sometimes if I blink I can get it right :?

Yes, all the time! I have to relax my eyes and let the 'other' correct interpretation into my brain. i never thought of turning the page upside down, thanks Margo! Maybe it is the lighting on the picture being different from the lighting in the room.

I always had trouble with those 3-d pictures too.

Kathy

[Roseanne M.]

The problem I have is that I can't seem to focus on the fabric for too long as it feeds towards the needle. I learned
not to watch the needle, but my eyes seem to want to blur out or not keeping looking at the spot where I'm
steering the fabric. Lucky for me this doesn't happen when steering the car!! :lol:

[wendy w.]

What, rotate the picture on the screen? Do tell!

Well you right click on your desktop and click on either properties, options, graphics can't remember which and you click something else then it comes up with rotate screen, either 90, 180 degrees etc., but remember when you want to change it back your mouse works the other way round.

I can't do it on this laptop but works a treat at work.

Off to relax my eyes.