(There are probably other programs like this one, but this is the one I found first, and really like.) When I have a sketch that makes me itch to start cutting fabric, I export the sketch from Sketchbook Pro to iPhoto, and then import it to PosteRazor-a very easy process. But not any more thanks to a FREE (my favorite price) on-line program called PosteRazor. I used to go through all kinds of gyrations trying to enlarge my drawings to the size I wanted for a quilt-I've used overhead projectors, opaque projectors, grid enlargements, and Kinkos. It's got it all plus GPS so I can get home after wandering around. I used to haul around a large sketchbook, pens, pencils, a small set of watercolors and a camera every where I went-I looked ready to scale Everest. I love that I can "pinch it big" when I want to work on a detailed portion of a drawing. I use a stylus on the iPad, and it's almost as comfortable as a pencil. It's an app that costs about $4.99 (at least when I bought it a couple years ago.) Like Photoshop, the app has layers, the ability to import photos, merge them, use a wide variety of drawing tools, save multiple versions, and export the final product to iPhoto. To produce the sketch I used two pieces of software that I really like.įirst of all, I used a drawing app called Sketchbook Pro on my iPad. Before the New Year, I had already planned out one large piece featuring seagulls feeding on a bait ball, (shown in an earlier post) but since I haven't collected enough fabrics to start work on that large-ish piece, I drew up this smaller sketch, using a photo I took on New Year's morning. When I become enamoured with something, it usually means some quilts aren't far behind. I have quickly fallen in love with these very intelligent, family oriented birds that I've taken for granted for too many years. Since I live on the shoreline of Puget Sound, my first bird sighting of the year was the ever-present seagull. The idea is to observe and study your bird of the year, and discover that there is no such a thing as an ordinary bird, or for that matter, ordinary anything. Haupt writes that your personal bird of the year is the first bird you see on New Year's Day-so in all likelihood, that bird will be an ordinary, every day, kind of bird. 18"x38" sketch, ready to make a pattern for my quiltĪ friend gave me a book for Christmas called Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds by Lyanda Lynn Haupt.
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