Once again, great team work ladies.

When I get it done I must put it on my profile, I'm behind on that job - always going off to quilt the next one! I have a Pfaff but thanks for the thought.

Margarita, I don't know if you have the Bernina software or not, but they do have a quilt program built in to the software. I played with it a few times, not terribly intimidating. Just a thought. If you like to design your own quilts, EQ7 is a great tool for that and you can do a lot of other things with it too. Like make your quilt labels, print fabric samples (on paper) that you could cut up for your blocks, etc. cheaper than cutting up your fabric. If you find a fabric that you like I believe you can also print on the printable fabrics (if you don't need a lot). Just another thought. Good luck, look forward to seeing your design/quilt.

I never expected a completely new solution to the problem,what a lovely surprise. I just watched the show and I can do that, it even looks like fun and what I really like is that if I get stuck I can just go back and watch again! Thank you so much.

Good catch Heather!!! An excellent show to revisit! The info we are looking for starts at minute 19:25
[url]watch/watch-shows/video/show-811-quilt-a-fiesta-with-tile-inspired-quilts[/url]

Margo wrote:
found it

episode 811 with Cheryl Lynch. I'm not a star member so can't link the actual video, but that's the one where she shows how she uses Word to design/look at designs.

Thank you Margo, I love the idea of classes for using PSE - makes buying it worthwhile.

For what it's worth...Electric Quilt 7 costs $189.95 USD http://electricquilt.com/online-shop/electric-quilt-7/

PhotoShop Elements is usually about $100 but you can find it on sale for $49 http://dealshout.com/computers/adobe-photoshop-elements-11-pcmac/?network=g&gclid=CPPa5q-T9LMCFQGFnQodvSkASw

And there are free trial downloads: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop_elements&loc=us

Of course, any software requires a learning curve. On line classes for using PSE for designing quilts are available through Step On Pins: http://moodle.steponpins.com/

Hmmmm....not ringing a bell, but sounds useful!! Anyone remember where that info is????

No, Margo, it's an older show....maybe series 700 or 800......definitely was using either Word or Paint, and she showed how you can just insert photo (of your block or fabric or whatever), shrink it, copy that photo, paste it next to the 1st, then copy the 2, paste those 2 next to the first 2, then highlight the whole row and paste below for however many rows you wish to do. Fast and easy "design wall" method.

It *might* have been the show with the Mexican tile inspired quilts. I know she showed some ways of printing out the block and pasting onto little foam core samples, and she might be the one who showed also about the "high tech" way of doing it in Word. Can't remember for sure. anyway, it's a good little trick

Learning-As-I-Go wrote:
You may be talking about Show 1004 with Nancy Prince. She is using PhotoShop Elements at minute 28 in the video:
[url]watch/watch-shows/video/show-1004-painting-with-thread[/url]

Learning-As-I-Go wrote: I use a combination of this (Paint) with paper & pencils for designing WotRott. I am currently doing a course on how to use Gimp, which is similiar to Photoshop, but available free, and reckon that this will make designing even easier - once I can remember where to find all the doo-hickies it has

there was a show on TQS, I forget which one, where they showed just using the Paint program that comes on most computers. Take a photo (or draw a basic one in Paint) and then shrink the photo and copy, paste, etc. to get the layout you want. Could even do this in Word (insert photo, highlight, copy, paste) and in fact, maybe that was the program used.

Perhaps that would work for this? Like your photocopying idea, w/o actually having to print a bunch.