Quilter's Computer Companion: Hundreds of Easy Ways to Turn the Cyber Revolution into Your Artistic Revolution [Paperback]

Judy Heim (Author), Gloria Hansen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 8, 1997

Creativity has no bounds when you know how to combine traditional quilting with modern technology. Whether you are just beginning with computers or a practiced old hand, The Quilter's Computer Companion will show you how to use your computer to design amazing quilts with ease, accuracy, and speed. Never before published techniques show you how to:

• Use popular quilting and drawing software like Electric quilt, Quilt-Pro, CorelDraw, Canvas, SuperPaint, and others.
• Employ special drawing tools (like slanting, stretching, mirror-imaging, and more) to transform ordinary blocks into extraordinary designs.
• Experiment with different fabric combinations without sewing a stitch by using scans of actual fabric to fill quilt designs.
• Incorporate photos, drawings, and other artwork into your designs to create stunning appliqu patterns.
• Create stencils and negatives for fabric painting or sun and blueprinting-with a computer printer!
• Calculate yardage, print templates, and paper piece patterns in minutes.
• Formulate custom grids for fashioning unique designs.
• Make perfect Bezier curves and use arcs to create hearts and tulips, roses and stars, and other free-flowing designs.

A 16-page, full-color quilt gallery showcases spectacular computer-designed quilts, and the "Quilter's Internet Yellow Pages" reveals where on the Internet to download free patterns, read free publications, get advice, view online quilt galleries, and more.

This is the book you've been waiting for. With The Quilter's Computer Companion in hand, your quilting will explode into the realm of the truly spectacular with a few clicks of the mouse!

Editorial Reviews

Review

...if you've been gathering your courage to make the plunge, if you're trying to figure out how to make the best use of hardware and software you own now, you'll find the answers you need in this comprehensive resource. -- Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, May 1998

A most brilliant book! Everything you wanted to know about quilting programs and didn't know how or what to ask! This book will really free you up from the confusion about computers and quilt design. -- Down Under Quilts, Fall 1998

About the Author

Heim, is a columnist for PC World and prolific writer on needlecrafting.

Hansen has won many awards from her computer-designed quilts. She writes a column for The Professional Quilter.

Product Details

• Paperback: 372 pages
• Publisher: No Starch Press (November 8, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886411158
• ISBN-13: 978-1886411159
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,202,396 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent tutorials and overall advice., September 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Quilter's Computer Companion: Hundreds of Easy Ways to Turn the Cyber Revolution into Your Artistic Revolution (Paperback)

I highly recommend this book to any quilter who has access to a computer. It's loaded with excellent tutorials, clear illustrations, helpful advice, tips, and gorgeous quilts. This book has kick-started my creative juices, and I find I'm referring to it over and over again. It's an amazing reference. Heim and Hansen are quite a team!

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Resource for quilters, December 31, 1997

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This review is from: Quilter's Computer Companion: Hundreds of Easy Ways to Turn the Cyber Revolution into Your Artistic Revolution (Paperback)

As a beginner quilter and novice computer user, I found this book to be well worth sitting up late last night, eagerly devouring the wisdom that Heim and Hansen have compiled. Using simple, concise directions and "down to earth" discussion, they have covered all of the topics that formerly cowed me into believing that I should've lived 100 years ago! Now I'm eager to integrate my love of quilting with the new love of computers and the information superhighway! The yellow pages of web addresses are especially useful to someone located in the wilds of Northern Maine. Often, internet access is my only contact with the outside world! A simple comparision of the available software programs have helped me to narrow my search for the next acquisition - quilting software!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for all quilters who use computers!, November 25, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Quilter's Computer Companion: Hundreds of Easy Ways to Turn the Cyber Revolution into Your Artistic Revolution (Paperback)

Since I bought this book (just several days ago) I have learned more about my computer in general, quilting, drawing and paint programs, and what I want, what I need and where to find it all, oh yes, and how to use it all than in the 4 or so years I have had my computer. I highly recommend this book as a source for all quilters who own computers.