Current Mood : Overheated
It's another scorcher, so I noodled around for a while. Wrote up a quick tutorial on how to use alphabets (single designs shaped like letters) as graphics in Alphabet XPress for the SiCK site, which sells alphabets. Not sure if I was really understood or not, but there's a bunch of folks who bought many, many letter sets without having any way to use them, except as one-letter monograms. I put a simple name and border together while writing it, and I've already gotten requests to stitch it out so they can see how well it works.
So I eventually got off my can in the Office and on my can in the Lab in front of Brody, and stitched it out. Not too bad. It's on the right side of Brody's cover, so this time, I don't have to wonder what to do with the trial stitch-out.
With that done, I meandered back into the Office and played with AXPress again. I'd been looking at ‘name snowflakes' on other sites, and wondered if I could do them m'self. Goss knows I got lots of software now ! Several sites offer to take a name, repeat it several times in a suitably swirly font, and shape it into a snowflake for ya, for a few bucks. I wouldn't mind doing that for our tree, so I gave it the ole college try.
And learned that AXP doesn't have the necessary ‘flip' or ‘mirror' function to do that very well. I could make a circular cascade that sort of looked like a flower, but not really a snowflake. Since I'd about gotten tired of the sight of my own name by the time I realized where I was failing, I settled on making a curly, six ‘petal' flower out of a nearly generic swear word. Four letters, starts with ‘s'. I saved it, because the very idea of stitching several of these up, and ‘donating' them anonymously to various public Christmas displays makes me laugh like an idiot.
