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

Great design there. I really like it.

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!

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

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?

I am just this minute beginning to mark my quilt top and I am going for the feather option with something else in the squares and rectangles. I will attach the diagram my non quilting friend did for me, we sort of thought of it together but he is a furniture designer and drew it out for me on some programme on his Mac. Totally cool, I was very impressed. I am marking the feathers with my sewline trio pencil using the lead bit which does wash out, I just tested a bit and then the rest of it I will use masking tape as I go. I really want to do Baptist Fan one day but I don't think this is where this time. I have taken note of what you say about the ruler, I think the day I do them I might just cut out some large cardboard pieces to trace nice big fans and get the job done quicker - the size of the circles put me off a bit. Thanks Nancy for the input.

I tried using the water soluble pen and the Crayola washable markers with my newly purchased EZ Circle Ruler, but they were too fat to fit into the grooves in the ruler. The ruler was originally designed for use with a rotary cutter blade, so it's narrow. I've only had success using a very sharp No. 2 pencil or a mechanical quilt marking pencil. Even a sharpened water soluble pencil, which is wider than a regular pencil, wouldn't fit into the grooves. I hope the pencil marks will wash out, if my stitching doesn't fully cover them.

Cool! Thank you Ritzy.

Margarita wrote:
Well--if you get to Chicago, let me know--I only live 80 miles from downtown. Maybe, we can get together.

Margo, you are too kind - thank you! I have two friends who live in the Houston area and that of course is why I have been to the Houston Quilt Festival twice, I must admit I am quite keen to go to another one day. My godson in Chicago is getting married this year, I'll let them settle down for a while and then..2014 perhaps, who knows?

Rosemary is right! Definitely go for the fine points! http://www.amazon.com/Crayola-Count-Washable-Markers-Colors/dp/B002IXN3EW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363627078&sr=8-1&keywords=crayola+washable+markers+fine+point

Yes....all of the cousins now live near Houston, which is a perfect excuse for a road trip in early November!

Makes sense, thank you Rosemary

Margarita wrote: I would go for the fine tip ones myself - you don't want to use up more ink than you have to.

It is a small world and the TQS makes it smaller, thank goodness. I looked at the markers on Amazon, I think my friend in Rhode Island would pick them up for me if I asked nicely but I must tell him which ones, the classic broad tip or the fine point? Choices and decisions, that's the only thing I have against Amazon, when I wanted some of those Sakura pigma pens for writing on labels it took me forever to work out which packet to order! Loving this and all the help, everyone seems to be benefiting from all the tutorials and info - wonderful! Margo, I am supposing all your cousins are now living anywhere except Planet Venezuela? and thanks for the starch recipe which I picked up along with the markers link.