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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Designing Patterns on the Computer

Some of you may recall my topic "Designing Patterns on the iPad" posted on InTatters earlier this year. There were quite a few people who wanted to know if there were any comparable drawing programs for the computer, and at the time, I don't think there were.

Well, now all you computer users are in luck! One of our fellow tatters has teamed up with her husband to create a drawing program to help design your own patterns. It's free, and you can find out more about it on her blog: Elaine's Tatting Aterier.

I tried it out last night and this is what I came up with:


I drew a triangular shaped motif because the App on my iPad doesn't make triangles. I really love how picots have been incorporated into the program. You can do a lot more with it (change picot size, colors, etc.) but I just did a quick run through.

I still have a lot of designs on my to do list, but I will definitely try my hand at creating something with this program in the future!

8 comments:

Madtatter80 said...

Don't have an ipod yet but this looks promising! what fun!

Robin Perfetti said...

Hi Madtatter, the nice thing about this is you don't need an iPad, any computer will do!

Unknown said...

Thank you Robin Perfetti for your wonderful posting!
Your design looks great too!

Jenn said...

Wow! That looks awesome! LOL I had a play with the tool and my attempts look nothing like that :). Will have to keep playing with it :).

muskaan said...

Your designs are always so elegant, Robin :-)
I really like this program, too. The ease & simplicity is highly addictive !
Hope to see more of your patterns & designing skills ...

Lace-lovin' Librarian ~ Diane said...

Robin, I've just taken the time to read all of your blog posts so far, and I think I'm really going to enjoy reading of your adventures, especially designing!

Robin Perfetti said...

Thanks Diane! At the moment, my vision for this blog is to catalogue my design journey. I hope to share more tips, tricks, and designs as I stumble upon them. And if I inspire others to start their own designing adventure, that would be great!

Gill said...

Thank you so much for sharing this