Sourcing and Resizing: Stained Glass Patterns for Quilting

Hi, I'm Lie Aller. And I love stained glass quilting. And one of the questions that I used to have until I discovered this wonderful process is where do I get my designs? And how do I get them to fit the project that I wanna make? Well, I often love to use to use stained glass coloring books.

Um They're al they're already designed to be stained glass and they're usually a subject I like which is flowers. So I picked this page out of my book to show you how I bring it up to size. It's very simple. There are, uh there's a program called Ra Rapid Resize. It's a software program.

I've been using it for almost 30 years ever since software programs started basically. And what you do is you put your design, you take a picture of your design or you scan it and then you upload your JPEG picture into the program and it, and then you tell it how big you want it. I wanted it to be what, 15 by 20 or 12 by whatever I wanted it to be. It blew up my design and then it, it uh printed it out on to 8.5 by 11 sheets in my printer. And then I just taped it together, like here's three of the four pieces taped together.

And, and what I have to do is I have to cut off the margin to, uh, to cover this up. I'm gonna cut this margin off. I'm using my paper, rotary ruler. I don't use my fabric ruler on paper. Oh, my, my fabric cutter.

So then I'll just place this here like this and I'll tape it and then I'll just get some tracing paper or a light box and I will cover this design, which is exactly the size I want. And maybe I'll trace it on to background fabric for stained glass project or I'll trace it on to um a larger piece of paper in case I wanna work with the design a little more. But the point is you can start with something small and make it exactly the size you want. Uh If you don't have a, a coloring book, maybe you'll find some designs on free clip art online or you can even put your foot in the water and try some A I design. All, all you would do is say I would like a stained glass style drawing, black and white of three daisies with two buds and I want it to be 12 by 15 or whatever and they will come up with options for you just like that I use the free A I from Microsoft.

I mean, even I'm not a computer savvy person but even I can do it. So I would recommend even asking a IA I is all about the ask, it's how you ask the question and they will give you any, any answer that you, that you can think of. It's just asking the right question. So you've got a, I, you've got clip art, you've got coloring books and you've got rapid re sizer to make it the size you want it to be. This is craftsy TV.