Award-winning quilter and author Kathy K. Wylie offers quilting lectures and workshops, specializing in appliqué techniques.
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Computer Aided Quilting

Three Years of Blogging!

Happy anniversary! Three years and 150 posts later, here are the top ten most-viewed articles from my quilting blog.

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Two Years of Blogging!

Happy anniversary! Two years and one hundred posts later, here are the top ten most-viewed articles from my quilting blog.

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Pattern Spot

C&T Publishing announces the launch of a new website, PatternSpot.com – an online marketplace for quilters, sewers, and crafters to purchase and download their favorite project patterns from top designers.

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Designing Pictorial Quilts using EQ7

Find out how EQ7 – the popular quilt design software from The Electric Quilt Company – can help you create beautiful pictorial quilts.

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Adding Fabric to EQ7

There are over 5,000 fabric swatches included in EQ7. But just like with our real life fabric stash, no matter how many choices we have, we are always ready to add more! In this article, I will show you how to add more fabric to your “electronic stash”.

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One Year of Blogging!

I thought it would fun, on this first anniversary, to take a look back at one year of blogging!

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More New Features in EQ7

Last week, we took a look at the many new capabilities in EQ7 for working with images. Here are a few more fun tools that have been added: the Swath Tool and the Serendipity Tools.

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EQ7 is Here!

My EQ7 upgrade arrived this past week, so I thought we’d take a break from our series on Art Concepts for Quilting and check it out. Find out some of the great new features in this latest version of the popular quilt design software from The Electric Quilt Company.

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Follow Me on Facebook

After much deliberation, I have finally joined Facebook. Find out more about this social networking site and its possibilities for sharing our love of quilting.

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Printing Fabric Part 4: Scanning & Printing Continued

In this last article of the series, we continue our look at scanning and printing. This time, however, we’ll consider the possibilities of scanning and printing fabric!

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Printing Fabric Part 3: Scanning & Printing

With the use of a scanner, we can take anything that is on paper and print it onto fabric. Part 3 of this series explores examples of beautiful paper turned into fabric.

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Printing Fabric Part 2: Photo Transfer

In this second article in a series about printing on fabric, we look at photo transfer and the special effects that can be created using photo editing software. Stay tuned for Part 3 in two week’s time.

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Printing Fabric Part 1: Dyeing Fabric

Last week I explained how I dyed all the fabric patches in my quilt “Trinity” using an ink-jet printer. Here are some ideas about how you could use this technology in your quilts.

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Making the Quilt “Trinity”

My quilt Trinity is currently being photographed to appear in the Gallery of an upcoming book about color. Here is the story of how this quilt was made, using my computer and my ink-jet printer.

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