Use Your Phone… for Quilting?

Phones are used for everything these days. From making dinner reservations to finding an auto shop or counting calories, there is nothing that phones can’t help you with… including quilting? Yes, even quilting, and not just for taking perfect pin-worthy glamor shots. Phones can help you plan your quilt in a number of useful ways:

• Auditioning Fabrics – Looking for the perfect color combo? Assemble a dozen different color combinations and take a picture of each. The combos will be easier to flip through on your phone and you won’t have to re-arrange fabric piles one hundred times.
• Layout – Can’t decide between “this way” and “that way”? Take a picture of each layout to compare side by side. You can try printing the options out on paper so they are bigger and easier to see. You can even tack them all up on a wall for thoughtful rumination.
• Arranging Fabrics by Value – Arranging fabric by value (such as the light-to-dark needed for the perennial favorite Log Cabin quilt) can be difficult, especially when lots of colors are involved. You can achieve this task easily by taking a picture of your fabrics lined up, side by side, then using your phone’s photo edit features to “Save As” a black and white photo. In black and white mode, the colors can now be easily arranged from darkest to lightest.
• Quilting Calculators – From Binding to Backing, there’s a Quilting Calculator out there to compute every quilting metric. Never get caught speechless at the cutting table again!

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