quilting app
 

I'm not sure if such a thing exists, but does anyone know of a quilting app where you could take a picture of your quilt, and then overlay different quilt designs on top of it to see how each would look? Thanks in advance.

I think you couldl do that on EQ7. But now they have come out with EQ8. I barely ......Not ......know how to use EQ7. I think what you want to do is change the fabric??? right??

Marcia

There is an app I've used on my iPad called You Doodle you can import your photo then use a stylus to draw on it and plan your quilting that way. It's free.

I'm interested in this as well. I don't know if I should buy EQ7 (or EQ8) - I already use the computer too much to procrastinate.

I think I stopped at EQ 5; what i want to do is be able to test out different quilt stitch designs on my pieced top. Maybe that explains it better. Thanks for the suggestion!

Great, I'll give this a try! Thanks :)

I send the quilt photo to my computer then open the picture in Windows Paint and draw using a mouse it would be an alternative if you didn't have the option of a stylus.

They make a clear plastic roll for quilters that you use dry erase markers to test quilt designs. I am sorry i do not remember the name. It is nice because you can doodle several designs and go back and pick your favorite!

I didn't know they made a roll! My hubby got me a large flexible piece that I can lay over the quilt on my table and use a dry erase marker!
It helps when I don't have a clue what I should do! He got it at a hardware store.. I have also used tracing paper!
I have EQ-7 haven't used it in years..
Haven't paid for all the updates either!

All good suggestions, thank you everyone!

Just to add a little to ideas of earlier commenters regarding using an overlay, there is a product called Duralar which is a clear plastic sheeting that some quilting shops are selling in cut pieces of about 20"x24" that you can use for trying out different ideas by laying it over the quilt and drawing on it. Duralar can be purchased in big rolls if you want that much. Until a recent course I attended, I'd use a piece of plastic, like wrapping paper plastic or a rigid plastic insert from packaging and a dry erase marker as already mentioned. But in the course I recently did, she used a water soluble pen, like you would use to write on a transperancy and it can be used on the duralar and also on rigid plastic (a piece I bought at Home Depot) and until you wet it, it doesn't come off. I like that, as the dry erase always produces a dry marker dust that is easily transferred to your hands and the quilt. Anyway, I also use these overlays to test out ideas for quilting as it gives you a really good trial run on figuring out your quilt path and scale.

on the recent EQ8 intro blog, I asked that one of their into videos be about this very topic--hopefully we'll see something on that. I know I can use my add-on Quiltmaker quilting designs but I'd really like to be able to actually draw a quilting design on the blocks in EQ7/8 so that I could see it well enough to really make some decisions.