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Paper Piecing blocks
Quilted Photo
Xpress 2.0
Virtual Quilt Labels Plus
Kaleidoscope Kreator 2.0
Printed
Treasures -
Memory Journal
The Vintage Workshop's
- Fabric Arts Sampler
Quilt Mavens
Perfect Paper Piecing
Designing Patchwork On Your Computer
Mariner's
Compass Stars Valuations
Simply Sensational 9-Patch
Stars
Quilter's Block-a-Day
Calendar Companion CD
Print Supplies
Bubble Jet Set 2000
Bubble Jet Set Rinse
Freezer Paper
Carol Doak's Foundation Paper
Printer Fabric Sheets:
JT's Colorfast Printer Fabric
JT's Quick Fuse Inkjet Fabric
Printed
Treasures Fabric sheets
Printed
Treasures Peel and Stick
Vintage Workshop
Fabric Sheets
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Make your own Quilt Icons
  
We use our computer every day we might as
well make it look the way we want. Why not make your own icons. This article was inspired
by one I read in PC World in Windows Tips by Scott Dunn called Make Your Own Icons. I've
adapted it for quilters computers.
Create or open a block design in your Windows drawing or Windows
quilt design program such as Quilt Pro, Corel Draw etc... When you create the image try to
reduce the detail as much as possible. An uncluttered icon looks best. You may also use
images you find on the Internet such as the ones shown above instead of creating your own.
Reduce the image until it is about 1/2" in size.
Open Windows Paint program. With a new file, click the Image menu
item and Select attributes. Select "Pels" for units, type 32 for both width and
height and click OK.
Move back to the drawing program, select the image, Copy to the
clipboard.
Move back to Windows Paint & Paste the image. If prompted by
the program to enlarge the bitmap click yes.. If the image was increased greatly, check
attributes to see the size of the new image. If the image is much larger than 50 X 50 pels
use the stretch & skew to reduce the size of the image to at most 50 X 50 pels (32 X
32 is better but the image can lose it's definition when it is too small)
To edit the image you may zoom in to make changes.
When finished editing the image, select Save As from the File
menu. Choose the location where you want to save the file. In the File Name box type in a
name in double quotation marks and use the ico extension like this:
"myicon.ico".
To change your shortcut's icon right click the shortcut and
choose properties from the menu. Click the shortcut tab and click Change Icon. Locate the
icon you just created and click Ok until you've closed all the dialog boxes. There you go!
you now have a new Icon for your Shortcut.
Cool Quilting Images
I was surfing the Internet looking for some cool quilting sites to link up to I
found some really nice icons and graphics that I thought you might like to see. I will add
more as I get permission to do so. You can download these graphics from here by placing
your mouse over the image and right mouse click on it. From the menu select "save
image as". This will allow you to save the image to your hard disk. If you use the
images on a web site be sure to request permission from the maker first. Also, please do
not add a link from your page to the image on this site as it may be moved and your page
will show up with a broken image.
 
 
 
 
These were some of my favorites from Tooru's page but there are
more!
We had a link to Tooru's page, but it appears that it has moved.
If anyone knows where to locate him again, please let us know.
Although not quilting related, I liked this little cutie at this
site but beware as there is adult oriented material here.
Animated Gif gallery by Fairy
Suryana
Other annimated finds:
 
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instructions, please send them a link to CompuQuilt. All other use requires
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