by pigtailpat » July 20th, 2015, 8:52 pm
Dawn - it was YOU who taught me everything about text in inkscape. When we worked together on the hershey text script, I thought I would never master this. That experience stayed with me for doing this pen work project. It worked much easier this time around, I think because of the new inkscape version, and the fact I was not trying to do a script (I feel that script is better suited for things like matboard, paper, hard surface media like that - fabric I think would be very problematic - also my sister's personality is not script - she was a tomboy when she was little and basically never really grew out of that). Maybe at some future point when I have more time, I can try script on fabric and see how far I get - and I'll have to install those gussets to get back on the cat. I had been so obsessed with getting this quilt done and in the can. Once completed, I will install the gussets.
Gigi & mel - thanks for your posts too. I'm very satisfied with the new SCAL and upgrading to the cut by color option (the pro) was a great move for me. I really missed that so much (I was raised on funtime, and the invisible hidden layer system and cut by color).
BTW - all the patience shown to me by Dawn and by Terri in vectors and the time I spent on them will eventually help me in the future. I am trying very hard to swing the purchase of a sitdown longarm quilting machine, and further into the future, I can purchase like a mini-robot computer software for the machine in a sitdown environment (this is wayyyyy into the future - it is expensive and can't swing it now with college & kids going on). That type of software is partially vectors, and partially autocad (i.e. the .dxf/.dwg/.plt formats) [think embroidery but on steroids for a big throat machine]. I am so thankful for the board here so I can come back for refreshers when I need it. I have really been bitten bad by quilting, and always was fascinated by sewing machines. I will never give up my gazzy and cat, they still are so valuable for me, and never let me down.
Pat
New owner of an 18" cougar and the gazelle...still a newbie at the cougar and will soon explore it............