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Quilter's Computer Companion: Hundreds of Easy Ways to Turn the Cyber Revolution into Your Artistic Revolution
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About Quilter's Computer Companion: Hundreds Of Easy Ways
Product description Creativity has no bounds when you know how to combine traditional quilting with modern technology. Whether you are just beginning with computers or a practiced old hand, The Quilter's Computer Companion will show you how to use your computer to design amazing quilts with ease, accuracy, and speed. Never before published techniques show you how to: Use popular quilting and drawing software like Electric quilt, Quilt-Pro, CorelDraw, Canvas, SuperPaint, and others. Employ special drawing tools (like slanting, stretching, mirror-imaging, and more) to transform ordinary blocks into extraordinary designs. Experiment with different fabric combinations without sewing a stitch by using scans of actual fabric to fill quilt designs. Incorporate photos, drawings, and other artwork into your designs to create stunning appliqu patterns. Create stencils and negatives for fabric painting or sun and blueprinting-with a computer printer! Calculate yardage, print templates, and paper piece patterns in minutes. Formulate custom grids for fashioning unique designs. Make perfect Bezier curves and use arcs to create hearts and tulips, roses and stars, and other free-flowing designs. A 16-page, full-color quilt gallery showcases spectacular computer-designed quilts, and the "Quilter's Internet Yellow Pages" reveals where on the Internet to download free patterns, read free publications, get advice, view online quilt galleries, and more. This is the book you've been waiting for. With The Quilter's Computer Companion in hand, your quilting will explode into the realm of the truly spectacular with a few clicks of the mouse! Review ...if you've been gathering your courage to make the plunge, if you're trying to figure out how to make the best use of hardware and software you own now, you'll find the answers you need in this comprehensive resource. -- Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, May 1998 A most brilliant book! Everything you wanted to know about quilting programs and didn't know how or what to ask! This book will really free you up from the confusion about computers and quilt design. -- Down Under Quilts, Fall 1998 About the Author Judy Heim writes a regular column for PC World magazine, the most widely read computer magazine in the world, and has been an avid needlecrafter for 30 years. She has written for Family Circle, C|Net, Newsweek, PC/Computing, Cosmopolitan, and needlework magazines like Quilter's Newsletter and Sew News. The author of the highly-acclaimed The Needlecrafter's Computer Companion and Internet for Cats (both No Starch Press), she lives in Madison, WI. Gloria Hansen has won many significant quilting awards nationwide during her 15 years as a quilter. She is a frequent contributor to Art/Quilt Magazine and writes the "High-Tech Quilting" column for The Professional Quilter. She has self-published quilt patterns, and her quilts, designs, and hand-painted fabrics have appeared in magazines such as Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, FiberArts, McCalls Quilting, and Ladies Circle Patchwork Quilting. Also a contributor to The Needlecrafter's Computer Companion, she lives in central New Jersey.
