Well, I just found out that hubby's aunt, who already has me making two quilts for her grandbabies, wants me to make a quilt for her other daughter as well. Keri is a large animal vet in Saskatchewan so when I asked what she might want on her quilt she said, "Australian Shepherds and horses". Um, okay. I did a little researching but I'm having trouble finding fabric with Australian Shepherds on it. So I wondered about paper piecing a dog. That set me to searching for instructions because I have no idea where to even begin creating a paper piecing pattern. I found something better. A program!
Have any of you heard of Quilting Assistant? I had not but came across it while looking online. It is free so I downloaded the program and started playing around with it. I will say this; read the manual! It is not difficult but I needed a little walk through to help me understand how it worked. I started with a picture of one of Keri's own dogs. I was able to change it from this...
To this! I actually could have muted the colors all the way down to just basic colors instead of "picture" colors more as well.
I was so excited because one of the reasons I never did a quilt along for this block was because I couldn't figure out how to draw it out except on graph paper. Now I can even play with the layout and design. This was my original quilt design.
Or this one?
Or this one? I changed the colors just to play a bit.
I'm very excited about having another option for quilt planning. Just thought I'd share. Check it out!
7 comments:
Wow, this looks amazing! Off to check it out - thanks for sharing :)
I definitely will! Thanks for the heads up. I have yet to get any design software and getting to try something for free is never a bad thing.
Lots of shepherd stuff out there. http://www.hotdiggitydog.com/A/Australian%20Shepherd%203%20craft%20fabric.htm
and http://my.hgtv.com/share-my-quilt/Australian-Shepherd-Quilt--applique/sgallery.esi just for starters. Also you could copy the dog picture onto fabric. I bet your paper piece will be nice, too. Sew many ideas out there. Have fun!
COOOOOOL!!! Thanks for sharing!
I can't wait to try it! Thanks for sharing. I love seeing your work every month!!
Oh wow, that is amazing what you can do with that free program. I love all of your designs and will look forward to seeing how this dog turns out.
That is so cool! I am trying to create pictorial types of quilts and am frustrated with the EQ7. I would love to take a class on that! THanks for sharing!
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