Weird week

The school year is coming at us full force and summer is literally moments away. How did that happen? Haven't had a chance to sew yet, but I bought and cut out most of the pieces for a table runner. Went in my sewing room last night and just looked while waiting for Reaper to start. Yesterday was lost to getting the AC in my car repaired. Already forget what happened to Monday. Suffice it to say, this is shut-down week for my husband, so my schedule is not entirely my own...

Did buy a copy of Megan Cox's The Quilter's Catalog. Got it from the library and there is so much good stuff in there I just "had" to have it for my own. I also showed off some of my quilt designs to my husband, who was ironically "complaining" that I hadn't yet made a quilt for our bed. I am taking that as "permission" to go for it. I've been hanging back partially because Quilter's Design Wizard is overwhelming me with choices and limitations (more on that later), but also because obviously it will cost more than the table runner, which so far I've spent $17 on.

So with the quilt I want for my room, I want a somewhat reversible quilt with some kind of simple yet optical illusion-ish design on the backing. I've kind of forced QDW to do a couple of entwined chains by using a couple of simple blocks and just coloring with them, but as my husband pointed out (damn him, the engineer) it is kind of a lot of work for the effect. I will have to find another design or different blocks if I actually want to be able to use the yardage feature for the quilt back. So this is a limitation of QDW that I can live with for now, and as long as I can jerry-rig it to do what I want on the screen, I can always figure it out on my own. 

A bigger limitation is not being able to do anything with the design files: you can only print them within the confines of the program. I can't, for example, make them into PDFs and display them anywhere, as I'm assuming you could do with EQ6.

Off to errands I go. After I get my car, I have to finish my newsletter draft for the STC, update the website for the soccer club I volunteer on, and then I get to quilt.