Most recent Projects

It's cold here in NW Ohio.  I think we are in for an awful winter.  Even my GG Marie would rather be sitting by the fire.  Most days my little Chihuahua mix won't come inside the house.  Oh, she comes in if I ask her to.  She runs in to see what I want,  gives me a nose bump and a kiss and runs out again.  Today is different.  Today she's inside.  Temperature on the back yard thermometer showed 23 degrees F. this afternoon.  Even lower now.

For the last two days I've gotten very little hand piecing or any part of the quilt making process done.  Computer issues.  Or not really computer issues.  Pop up ad issues.  Malware Issues.  If I ruled the world, I'd exact my revenge.  Maybe sit these small minded people (who force these adds on the computing public) in a locked room and make them listen to elevator music all day.  That would be oh so nice...and satisfy my revenge quotient in part.  I have more evil revenge scenes rolling around in my thoughts but oh well never mind.

So now all is fixed and working as it should, but the last two days are a bust for my quilt work. Last two days aside,  I have managed to do some piecing and finished two little tops over the last month. 

The Patchwork of the Crosses in Red and White is a small table topper I made using the Inklingo 90 degree 0.5 Inch Hexagon Collection.   The last time I posted about this top, a quarter of the blocks were pieced together.

One Quarter of  POTC in Red and White

Patchwork of the Crosses in Red and White

Now it's done as far as I plan to go.  The blocks went together nicely.  My friends are encouraging me to add to this quilt top making it larger but I want to move on to something else. There are so many potential quilts running around in my head.

My Prairie Women's Group is working on an English Paper Piecing Hexagon Quilt using one inch hexagons.  I used to piece my hexagons the EPP way.  I did a few quilts using this method, but so combersome.  I think the reason EPP is used is for accuracy plus all those Y seams make a Hexagon Quilt Top difficult to machine piece. 

I hand pieced my top using Inklingo's One Inch Hexagon Collection .  Accuracy is a snap and there are no Y seam problems when you use Inklingo.  Lots quicker and a lot more enjoyable for me. So while the group is still working on their EPP, wrapping their little bits of fabric around their little one inch  hexagon shapes,  I have finished my top and I can move on to quilting it or maybe make another top.  The top does call for some wool applique on the light center hexagon flowers, but I will do this after I quilt the top...this can be easily done with hand applique.

Hexagon Quilt Top
Made with Inklingo 1 Inch 60 Degree Hexagon Collection

So what next?  With EQ7, I've created a Rainbow Quilt top using 2 inch squares.  I can hand piece this a bit at a time very easily using 2 inch squares from one of the Inklingo Collections.  I already have the 90 degree 1 inch hexagon collection.  The 2 inch square is a bonus piece in this collection.

Bonus Pieces in the 90 Degree 1 inch Hexagon Collection

Or, our Prairie Women's Group will be working on a flying geese wall quilt.  I'd like to try this with Linda Franz's method of machine piecing flying geese using Inklingo.   (Sewing Flying Geese the Inklingo Way)

And I recently became inthralled with Dresden Plates. Using Inklingo  Dresden Plate Fancy Pieced Collection, would make doing one of these quilts so much fun.

So many possibilities.  I don't see how some of my  fellow quilters can stick to just one quilt project at a time!

Portable HP Printer and Custom Sizes

PRINTING CUSTOM SIZES ON AN HP PRINTER


Not long ago, I went searching for a laptop.  I need one when I go on little trips or vacations.  I have an IPad, which I love, but it has some limitations.  So I purchased a little lap top.  I weighs less than 2 lbs.

I also needed a small portable printer.  This would be great for travel and I thought I could use it to teach an up coming Inklingo class..... but as it turned out, I didn't get to it on class day....and that's another story.  So I purchased an HP Officejet 100 Mobile Printer because that's all they had in small printers.  I could have just not purchased any printer that day and gone on line to find something elsewhere ( I need custom sizes and HP wasn't likely to allow for it.) but I'm the impulse sort so I bought it.

HP Officejet 100 Mobile Printer

I took it home and all worked OK.  Putting in the cartridges proved a bit of a chore, but I got it print ready.  Custom sizes was grayed out just as I expected. (My old printer was an HP).. The printer comes with a little bit of instructions but even though it appeared to allow custom sizes, I couldn't figure it out just how I was expected to do it...so I went on line and up pops a number of possibilities... most of them from people asking the same questions I had with no good answers.  The best one I found after a Google search was for a totally different HP Printer, but it gave me enough information so I could work it out.  I can now print custom sizes on my HP.  I'm thinking if it worked for me, it may work for other Inklingo enthusiasts with HP Printers.

So HP owners who want to print custom sizes give this a try.



Let's say you would like to print 7" x 7"....

1. Go to the page you want to print...current page...actual size.
2.  Go to Properties then Features.
3.  Down in the middle of Features pick custom.
4.  At custom at the top of the page you will see the word custom...you will have to rename it...I'm printing a 7" x 7" sheet of triangles so I rename it Triangles 7 x 7.  Then click Save.  Click OK.
5.  You are now directed back to features.  Your size is displayed.  ( I would check "show preview before printing") Click OK.
6.  You are now back to your main print page and you have your correct size.

This is much more complicated then the Canon I use with my Desktop PC, but it's do-able.  So big smile here.  I can now take my printer on vacation or to class along with my little laptop and I'm all set to print out my Inklingo custom size pages.