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Unfortunately yesterday I did not have time to play with EQ7 at all for two reasons. For one thing my 9 year old GD came over to help me plant seeds in my 3 Aero Gardens as well as get herself some seeds to plant some for herself to take home. The other reason for my not playing with EQ7 is that I was needing a brain break if there is such a thing from it. I figured my playing with it as much as I did over the weekend was enough.

I will though probably play with it again later towards the end of this week and hoping to be able to upload line drawings, photo's, geometrics, alphabets, stencils and more that I sniped using MS Sniping Tool.

For those of you not familiar on MS Sniping Tool and how to use it is quite simple to use. Everyone that uses Microsoft on there computers have this tool already on there. At least from Vista Platform on up. Can't remember if it was on earlier versions.

You will find MS Sniping Tool under the Accessories folder on your computer. Simply click START button than click ACCESSORIES folder and you should find MS Sniping Tool there.

Any thing that you have on your screen can be sniped or any software program that you have on your system with photo's, any graphics at all can be sniped just like if you open anything on line you can capture any page sitting on your desktop window...yes even text.

I use MS Sniping tool to open up a software program that I have called Design Studio used with Provo Crafts Cricut die-cutting machines. I own more than 125 of those cartridges which materials on it are used to pull up and cut the design with using the Cricut machines. Since I don't find those machines particularly useful to cut my fabric with (although it will) and the only way for me to pull the graphics, alphabets, etc to use in EQ7 I use MS Sniping tool to get what I want of the DS program to upload into my EQ7 to use to design whatever I want.

Since I don't want to pay couple hundred or more to buy AccuQuilts Alphabets die sets I can go into my fonts in my computer system, or into DS, or online where you can literally download or snipe all the fonts you want and need to upload into EQ7 to use in applique quilt projects or even harvest them from my embrodery machine library.

MS Sniping tool is easy enough to use. What you do is find what you want to snipe and open it on your desktop, then open the sniping tool and click the mouse over what you want and capture it and then save it on your computer in the folder you want to designate it in.

It's a great tool to have in addition to EQ7 to create your one of a kind quilt design. Of course you do not have to have EQ7 to use MS Sniping and can upload what you capture into any graphics program you use such as Paint that is also already on the system, Photo Elements and such programs.

I especially like to use it to find coloring pages on line especially if I want to do applique of any sort or any type of art quilting such as thread painting, painting on fabric, etc to create one of a kind themed quilt. Great also to do landscape fabric art having line drawings to be able to cut it out and use as applique on fabric or to actually color on fabric with crayons, paints, inks, and more.

Let's say you also want to capture text online especially on a site that does not have the "print" feature like a lesson plan or free pattern of sorts it's alot easier to use the MS Sniping tool to capture it all at once than to cut and paste it in MS Word or other such program and saving it.

You may want to check it out if you were not familiar with this until my mentioning it now. Great tool to have for crafters, writers, educators, really for anyone.