My new toy As you all know, I like to be organised, I like to plan, and these people have catered provided an excellent product (Electric Quilt 5) for my quilt planning requirements. The shot you see here is a picture generated in the tool for a quilt I am working on at the moment for myself. What is extremely cool about this is all the fabrics you see here are actually the real fabrics I have worked out I can going to use - scanned in, and then used on my design. I also have a version with the quilted layer over the top, but it is less easy to see fabrics in this version.

This tool has some really good feature (which I won't bore you about here) but for me, it is definately $200 well spent - has some excellent features like printable patterns and rotary cutting charts, yardage estimators etc. I think it will come in very handy for determining overall colour schemes before buying fabric.

The one problem I can see here is that the colors scanned in are not EXACTLY the same colours as the materials, so I will need to work out how to adjust to make them more accurate in future.
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  Asian Flowers Bought this material today and thanks to my handy new $60 scanner, can show you. It' $5.99/m curtain material, 100 cotton, and while not the finest fabric in the world, would be OK for pants, skirts or bags.

This sample is about an A4 size, so I am thinking either a long skirt for summer or bags (or both). Pants might be a bit odd?

Thoughts?
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  Converto So, this is the much discussed Converto.

Those are teeth, btw.

You can see the side view here
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