Yeah right.
Me and my iPad are attached at the hip :D
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
1. I save images to the camera roll then add them to an album. Some of my albums are similar to my Pinterest albums but the purpose of these images is to act as templates to trace using my Whiteboard app. I then use the line drawings to make similar designs. More about Whiteboard later.
I am just about to change my privacy setting in the iPad to say yes to pinterest accessing my photos so I can save a pinned image to my camera roll. System/privacy/photos/slide the pinterest choice to yes. You click the share icon on the top of the pin to see where you can send it.
So many companies have access to my stuff on the internet and iPad I don't suppose one more will hurt.
2. I use the camera to take pictures of designs and colour combinations that I see in magazines. I also use the camera through my Flickr app to directly upload photos of my project progress to Flickr. Using the Flickr app I can add titles, descriptions, place them in sets and decide on privacy settings.
3. The Whiteboard app allows me to upload a photo of a design. I then add a new layer. I go back to the photo layer and make it semi transparent so it is easier to trace. I then go back to my new layer and you use a finger to trace the outlines. I can then delete the photo layer and save the line diagram in my photos albums. I then use these line drawings to make drawings in my paper design notebook. I used this method to get drawings of birds and flowers for original applique patterns.
This app costs $2.99. There is a lite version but it doesn't do much.
Get info.
4. In Photos I have several albums of cross stitch charts that I can call up and enlarge instead of printing them out.
5. I download lots of PDF patterns and open them in iBooks. (I have just realised that GoodReader is better for my patterns because I can make notes on the page) If there is a template I just print that page out then use my iPad up in the sewing room to read the instructions. I have a nifty iPad stand that I made. I posted about the pattern here.
6. For some simple design templates like stars or hearts I just place a piece of paper over the iPad and trace it. You just need to hold the paper down by pressing on the outside border of the iPad and keep your hand off the screen. Touching with the pencil is OK.
7. I sometimes make a blog post from my iPad using Blogsy. It is easy to use. You can drag photos from the iPad or Flickr make links etc. It is available in the App Store and costs $4.99.
Get info.
8. The iPad is much more portable than my laptop and I can use it anywhere in the house. I like to play on Pinterest using the Pinterest app. I also check in to Google + with the Google + app. I have just downloaded the gmail app and I use it in combination with my iPad mail app to see which accounts I am getting mail in. I now have three mail accounts to keep track of. I have added all accounts to my mail program so I can access them all from the one app.
9. Early on I realised that I needed to get things from my iPad to my laptop so I bought the Goodreader app. When free bom instalments come out I can open the PDF in Good reader then upload it to my Google drive. From there I can download it to my laptop if I want to. This way I don't miss any instalments. Since they usually have templates to print in them it is easier to save them to Google drive where I can access them with my laptop.
I have just started keeping patterns in Good Reader because I saw how I could annotate the files.
(The annotations stay with the file when I transfer it to google drive but they disappear when I try to open it on iBooks on the iPad. The pop up sticky note disappears when you transfer it to google drive.)
The only way to get files out of iBooks is to email them to myself then I can open them directly in Good Reader. I added my email server to the Connect to server section. I can now select to connect to Google drive or my mail server.
Good Reader info. It is $4.99
I have one whole screen plus a couple more on the next screen just for me. We also have 2 screens of general use apps. There is a quilt calculator app called QuiltCalc but so far I have used patterns that give me the cutting instructions. I also have the Craftsy app for watching block of the month.
I hope you have found some inspiration here. (Speakng of...the Inspiration app has been great for us while we have been setting up our fused glass business plan. $10.49.)
Happy Quilting,
Val
valspierssews@gmail.com
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Me and my iPad are attached at the hip :D
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
1. I save images to the camera roll then add them to an album. Some of my albums are similar to my Pinterest albums but the purpose of these images is to act as templates to trace using my Whiteboard app. I then use the line drawings to make similar designs. More about Whiteboard later.
I am just about to change my privacy setting in the iPad to say yes to pinterest accessing my photos so I can save a pinned image to my camera roll. System/privacy/photos/slide the pinterest choice to yes. You click the share icon on the top of the pin to see where you can send it.
So many companies have access to my stuff on the internet and iPad I don't suppose one more will hurt.
2. I use the camera to take pictures of designs and colour combinations that I see in magazines. I also use the camera through my Flickr app to directly upload photos of my project progress to Flickr. Using the Flickr app I can add titles, descriptions, place them in sets and decide on privacy settings.
3. The Whiteboard app allows me to upload a photo of a design. I then add a new layer. I go back to the photo layer and make it semi transparent so it is easier to trace. I then go back to my new layer and you use a finger to trace the outlines. I can then delete the photo layer and save the line diagram in my photos albums. I then use these line drawings to make drawings in my paper design notebook. I used this method to get drawings of birds and flowers for original applique patterns.
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| You get an option to draw, take a photo to draw on or upload a photo |
I traced the photo of my teapot and cup to make an applique. You can email it to yourself to print or print straight from the iPad with a program that you install on your computer call fingerprint ($20) Our printer is not able to print from the iPad without this program.
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| This is what I did with it. I posted about it too. |
This app costs $2.99. There is a lite version but it doesn't do much.
Get info.
4. In Photos I have several albums of cross stitch charts that I can call up and enlarge instead of printing them out.
5. I download lots of PDF patterns and open them in iBooks. (I have just realised that GoodReader is better for my patterns because I can make notes on the page) If there is a template I just print that page out then use my iPad up in the sewing room to read the instructions. I have a nifty iPad stand that I made. I posted about the pattern here.
6. For some simple design templates like stars or hearts I just place a piece of paper over the iPad and trace it. You just need to hold the paper down by pressing on the outside border of the iPad and keep your hand off the screen. Touching with the pencil is OK.
7. I sometimes make a blog post from my iPad using Blogsy. It is easy to use. You can drag photos from the iPad or Flickr make links etc. It is available in the App Store and costs $4.99.
Get info.
8. The iPad is much more portable than my laptop and I can use it anywhere in the house. I like to play on Pinterest using the Pinterest app. I also check in to Google + with the Google + app. I have just downloaded the gmail app and I use it in combination with my iPad mail app to see which accounts I am getting mail in. I now have three mail accounts to keep track of. I have added all accounts to my mail program so I can access them all from the one app.
9. Early on I realised that I needed to get things from my iPad to my laptop so I bought the Goodreader app. When free bom instalments come out I can open the PDF in Good reader then upload it to my Google drive. From there I can download it to my laptop if I want to. This way I don't miss any instalments. Since they usually have templates to print in them it is easier to save them to Google drive where I can access them with my laptop.
I have just started keeping patterns in Good Reader because I saw how I could annotate the files.
(The annotations stay with the file when I transfer it to google drive but they disappear when I try to open it on iBooks on the iPad. The pop up sticky note disappears when you transfer it to google drive.)
The only way to get files out of iBooks is to email them to myself then I can open them directly in Good Reader. I added my email server to the Connect to server section. I can now select to connect to Google drive or my mail server.
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| These are my folders in good reader. |
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| I made a note of where the paper templates are stored |
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| You can write with your finger. This one also has a pop up sticky note about the eyes. |
I have one whole screen plus a couple more on the next screen just for me. We also have 2 screens of general use apps. There is a quilt calculator app called QuiltCalc but so far I have used patterns that give me the cutting instructions. I also have the Craftsy app for watching block of the month.
I hope you have found some inspiration here. (Speakng of...the Inspiration app has been great for us while we have been setting up our fused glass business plan. $10.49.)
Happy Quilting,
Val
valspierssews@gmail.com
