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How to draw your own pantos


Loes

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Hi everyone,

Here are the steps "in writing" how to draw your own pantos, as shown in the slideshow on page:

http://quilters.pre-design.eu/apqs_longarm1.htm

1. Start Pre-Design and open a background image via menu Background (it can be a photo you made with your camera of your freemotion work, or a motif of the quilt fabric or a photo of a curly balcony, anything!). Set the View menu to Hairlines.

2. take the curve tool and follow the lines you want in your panto by clicking from point to point (you just need a few points and the lines will be nice and smooth). Click in the sequence you want to follow the lines and double-click to end.

3. Take the Select tool. Select and move the points to pefect the lines.

4. Still with the Select tool, move the first and the last point of the drawing both on the same level (this makes aligning easier)

5. Then Select All, right-click and choose size: enter the height you want for your panto.

6. Select all, press Ctrl+C to copy the drawing, scroll to the side to make room for the copy and press Ctrl+V to paste it. While this copy is still selected, move it to align it to the last point of the original. Repeat this step a couple of times to make a row of patterns (depending on the size of your quilt).

5. Finally: choose menu File > Print Pattern. Click No when it asks if you want the pattern to be printed hairline thin.

6. Your printer will print the panto at the size entered in step 5, on just any normal regular home printer - no need for a special printer. The pattern will automatically be divided over several numbered pages. Align at the dotted lines and tape together.

TIP to make taping a breeze: take some little post-it notes to secure the pages to the table and then use sellotape to tape them together. The post-it notes will prevent the pages to "jump" to the sellotape :)

That\'s it.

Do try this at home :)

Download the free trial from page:

http://quilters.pre-design.eu/trial.htm

it will work for 21 days - so get started rightaway and you will have a total collection of pantos before the trial runs out <ggg>

And after that, well you will definitely be hooked on drawing your own pantos.

Loes

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Hi Barbara,

Thanks for the compliment :)

Yes Pre-Design is for sale at MQS:

in the booth of King\'s Men Quilting Supplies

in the booth of Ellen Munnich (Pro-Q Designer)

and on Thursday night, Theo and I will be demoing Pre-Design at the Tiki Treasures night (where we are supposed to be in Tiki outfit.... now you have a screen name "Hawaii Barbara".... any advise for us how to look "Tiki"??

Loes

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Hi Pam,

If King\'s Men Quilting Supplies and/or Ellen Munnich will be at Paducah, then it will be available there.

Otherwise you can purchase the download version online, payment via PayPal, and you get an unlock key within a couple of hours: see page: http://www.pre-design.eu/purchase.htm

Pre-Design can also be used to create your own artwork to use in embroidery digitizing software, so yes, it\'s a bit similar to embroidery digitizing. Big difference is that for embroidery digitizing you need filled shapes and for quilting you need continuous lines :)

See screenshots pages:

http://www.pre-design.eu/screenshots.htm (for embroidery digitizing)

http://quilters.pre-design.eu/screenshots.htm (for longarm quilting)

Loes

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Thanks for the info, Loes! Will be looking for YOU (and the program!). As for the TIKI "look", no suggestions, but I did do a search (internet) and it looks like there are actually TIKI costumes out there! With your creativity, I am SURE you will come up with something spectacular..... maybe a TIKI with feathers????

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Originally posted by Loes

A Tiki with feathers.... of course!! That\'s it :)

Loes

Loes, I\'ve never seen a Tiki with feathers... but maybe instead of feathers you can add the palm leaf? A feathery palm? That would be way cool. :cool: Here\'s a photo I snapped at the local Fred Meyer grocery store at lunch today. Isn\'t he cute???

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Marion

The download is an exe file and is 6.40 Mb. More than sufficent space left on any CD but............ first download the file on your disk and than copy it to a CD if you want to.

The free download (full program with all functionality and help files included) will work for 21 days. After that you will need a software key to continue working with the program.

If you have any other questions or need any help please send an Email to info@artistitch.com and we will help you.

Enjoy the free trial

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