Day 174 – Matrix Flow

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

6 Responses

  1. QuiltSwissy says:

    As ever, you continue to impress me. You are working on goddesses…while I am working on chickens!

    Happy Mother's Day darling!

    glen/QuiltSwissy

  2. Lori Jo says:

    Try "Rapid Resizer". A trial is available on-line. It was made with stain glass work in mind but makes great very easy enlargments and reductions. Love your site!

  3. Liz I. says:

    Leah, you have helped me so much with your videos and product recommendations! Thank you so much. I'd be lost without your video encouragement!

    I've just begun working with Adobe Illustrator and I must say I love it for resizing and printing a design. I'm working on a large scale project, done in a multiple square fragments, and I needed to create an 8' by 8' graphic of "ghost grasses" to be stitched in 24" by 24" squares and I needed 24" x 24" patterns for stenciling with paint.

    Illustrator's art boards make this chopping and printing very easy. I have a large format printer which can print 12" wide so I wound up just making my 24" patterns out of four 12" squares which I taped together. The nice thing is you could size your art boards, and printing, to fit on letter size paper. I like being able to print–and make adjustments–right in my studio, even if it takes a little more time.

  4. Laura says:

    I've gotten drawings resized up to 36" wide x 4 feet tall (blueprint size) at Staples, and I think the most it cost me was $6.00 for each one. I can't believe Office Max charged you $60.00!

  5. Leah Day says:

    Hi Laura – I think they charged me so much because it was glossy paper, but then it didn't work because the glossy paper was so thick. Grrr…

    Hi Liz – I LOVE illustrator so far too! I've not figured it all out yet, but it's getting easier the more I play with it. Your quilt sounds awesome and I'm sure Illustrator made it easier to create.

    Let's go quilt!

    Leah Day

  6. kimhirst says:

    Leah – I don't need to comment on your work – it's always beautiful and I still am amazed that you continue to come up with new quilting designs – every day!
    I use Illustrator for designing my patterns and I really like it. Very powerful and I'm sure I only use a small part of it, but it works for me and gives professional results. Lots of free help available through the Adobe site too. Another good help resource if lynda.com – I have had some free trials from them and found their information very helpful. Good luck!

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