Designing a Quilt with MyWebQuilter.com

I thought I would blog a little today about how to use the Design Quilt page at MyWebQuilter.com.

If you just click on the Design Quilt page, you are presented with a very simple quilt using a Churn Dash block. From looking at the website statistics, it seems that some people just click to other pages from here and don't go further to actually design a quilt. I guess they are just checking out the site. To understand what this quilt design software can do, you have to take a few more steps!

There are 2 basic things you may want to do when you see this Churn Dash quilt..

1. Change to different quilt blocks


2. Change other things about the quilt

For today's blog entry, I am going to talk about Changing the Quilt Blocks.

To do that, you need to go to the page to select quilt blocks. Any web page is limited on space so I made selecting quilt blocks for your quilt one page and using the blocks you selected to design a quilt a separate page.

Of course if you know this, you can start on the selecting blocks page. To select quilt blocks look at the screen print below.....look for the links with the red circles.

The page to select quilt blocks looks like this:

There are about 170 blocks to choose from at the current time. Each block is available in 7 standard color waves. You can color your own blocks - but that is another lesson.

The screen has many ways to search the blocks. To get started click on a color and/or a type of block. If you are looking for a particular block - type in the search area and click search.

Clicking the left most color block (multi-color) and the All button for type will make all the blocks appear.

When you find a block you want to try on your quilt, click the "Select" link next to it. Clicking Select will add the block to the column on the right "Blocks for My Quilt"

On this picture of the screen I have chosen the green color wave and selected several blocks.

After selecting blocks, return to the Design Quilt page.

Now the blocks that you selected will be on the left side of the screen. Each block has a check box next to it to indicate it if should actually be on the quilt or not.

Try changing the check boxes - then click Update Quilt.

Have fun changing the check boxes and seeing what you get.

Today, my art quilt group is meeting! We always have fun trying new art quilt techniques. Glenna received a large roll of Lutrador as a gift. So, we are making making vegetable themed collage using Lutrador including a Haiku poem that we wrote. Hmm...should be interesting!

Happy Quilting

Amber.