Hellen brought me this gorgeous star quilt. It is one that I was so excited to get to quilt. The pictures do not do the batiks justice they the greens and bright blue are much brighter in person. I have wanted to quilt a Lone Star type quilt since I started quilting. Did I mention that I was excited...
I thought you might want to see how I decide what I am going to do when I do custom quilting. I take a picture of the quilt on my iPad. In this case I only needed to see about half of the quilt so I hung in over the rollers on my longarm. Then I take it into the Adobe Ideas App. I can resize the picture as I work and I draw on it with my finger. This process works the best for me. I have tried using a Wacom pad and stylus, but I have learned that I need to be able to see my hand when I draw on the quilt. I just can seem to draw with a stylus and look at my monitor. I LOVE my iPad! I had not really decided what I wanted to do in the green squares at this point. The nice thing is that I can play with a lot of ideas before I every load the quilt.
I can even take the picture of the quilt away and just look at the drawing itself. This app has really changed how I design.