Sites for Inspiration
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— for quilters, fabric lovers and other crafters
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Making Scallop Borders
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Very thorough and entertaining directions for making scalloped borders on quilts,
Instructions by Linda for Dear Jane Friends, February 1999
http://www.lindafranz.com/index.php?sectionId=38
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Marking Quilt Designs
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Using Glad Press N' Seal to mark quilting designs is quick and easy.
Instructions by Judy Kelius, September 2005
http://home.ptd.net/~shoofly/PNS/directions.htm
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Ambigrams
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Ambigrams are words or phrases that can be read in more than one way or
from more than a single vantage point, most commonly right-side-up and
upside-down.
Ambigram.matic
http://ambigram.matic.com/ambigram.htm
Ambigram.com
http://ambigram.com
John Langdon
www.johnlangdon.net
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Clipart, Fonts and Graphics
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Web graphics and printable clip art for your personal and business web pages, scrapbooks, crafts, desktop publishing and more!
Country Clipart
www.countryclipart.com
Computing with Accents, Symbols & Foreign Scripts
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html
Note: You can find also the character maps for special characters
on your Windows computer. On the Start menu go to All Programs -
Accessories - System Tools - Character Map. If you use these symbols a
lot you could create a shortcut on the desktop or "pin" it to the Start
menu.
Symbols (online digest of graphic symbols, searchable by text or design)
www.symbols.com
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Quilting
on the Computer
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Great programs for designing quilts and quilt blocks!
The Electric Quilt Co.
http://www.electricquilt.com/
EQ Free Fabric Palette of the Month
www.electricquilt.com/Users/Downloads/Palette.htm
EQ Fun Stuff
www.electricquilt.com/Users/FunStuff/FunStuff.htm
EQ Tutorials
www.electricquilt.com/Users/ClassesTutorials/TutorialListing.htm
Quilted Calendar Wallpaper for your Computer
Free Projects -- Patterns, EQ Ideas, Quilt Inspiration
www.piecepatcher.com
Quilt Design Wizard
www.quiltwizard.com
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Quilting with Polymer Clay
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You can quilt with mediums other than cloth! Here is a great book with
instructions for adapting quilt patterns to polymer clay.
Be sure to check out the wonderful quilt store made with clay at this website:
PolyMarket Press
www.polyclay.com/polymarketpress/books.html
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Quotes and Sayings
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I love words and enjoy using them on my quilts. Here are some good sources for quotes and other sayings.
Amusing Quotes
www.amusingquotes.com
Bartleby.com
www.bartleby.com
Brainy Quotes
www.brainyquote.com
Cool Quotes Collection
www.coolquotescollection.com
Good Quotes
www.goodquotes.com
Latin Library
www.yuni.com/library/latin.html
Love Poems and Quotes
www.lovepoemsandquotes.com
The Quotations Page
www.quotationspage.com
Quoteland.com — all the right words
www.quoteland.com
Wisdom Quotes
www.wisdomquotes.com
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Snowflakes
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Snowflakes for quilting or fun!
Make-a-Flake
http://snowflakes.lookandfeel.com
Dave's Snowflake Page
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dstredulinsky/home.html
Paper Snow from Paper Panache
http://www.paperpanache.com/ecart/Psnow.htm
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Tesselations
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Tesselations are repeating designs that make great quilt patterns.
How to create Tessellations
using your Quilt or Graphic Software
by Sharla Hicks
http://softexpressions.com/help/newsletters/00JANtessF.htm
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