Tag Archives: patchwork

That green thing

is how I think of this quilt-in-the-making.  You may remember I pieced the strips and put it together in a different format.  When I got my design board I played around with it a bit more and put it like … Continue reading

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Design Board and Print Blocks – the results!

Here is my design board standing up on its wheels before I put the flannel on: And here it is after I had covered it with white flannel, which I bought from Cotton Patch.   I pinned it with copious drawing pins … Continue reading

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Design board and print blocks…

DH is in the process of making me a design board.  Following instructions on Quiltart and on Mrs Mel’s blog, we went to buy a piece of 8′ by 4′ insulation board.  It was interesting getting it home in the … Continue reading

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Committed to Cloth Website is back up!!

Hurray, hurray! It must be the season for revamping websites – Leslie Morgan and Claire Benn’s website, Committed to Cloth is live again! And there is lots to look at. Leslie and Claire run the Virtual Studio at the Festival … Continue reading

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Revamped Website!

I’ve just finished doing a revamp of my website to make it look more like my blog – not completely, but more than it did before. I haven’t added much extra content yet, although there is now a sitemap with … Continue reading

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Removing backgrounds in Paint Shop Pro

A quick question: does anyone know how to remove backgrounds in Paint Shop Pro? I want to remove the background from photos of various objects (like you get in a sales catalogue) and can’t figure out how to do it. … Continue reading

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