Current Mood : Too sleepy to be as curious as I am.
I'm still doing the SiCK website's ‘Free Hunts', even though I now have nearly a thousand points - enough for two and a half free sets - and haven't spent any of ‘em. What can I say, I'm a sucker for free stuff, even though I rarely keep any of the hunt targets or free designs. It's just kind of fun to play this semi-high-tech Memory Matching game.
Yesterday, though, I got the patriotic free-standing lace star I liked from one set, and a project from another. It was a bib design - a simple floral two-color heart, with ‘I Love Grandpa' circling it. The words made it too big for Brody... but I already knew what to do with that ! Saved the design, took it to Explorations Sizer, and quickly removed the words. The floral heart was nice and small, and I could even get two in the 4 x 4- inch hoop Brody does.
So I had some more fun with it. Sizer can also reassign thread colors, and flip, mirror, and duplicate designs that are small enough. So that one heart soon yielded six different designs, not counting new color combinations. Not bad at all for a freebie. I think I'll even switch the order of colors, and do the 'centers' first, to cover up all those jump threads. That'll be a challenge - never did that before. Not sure how it'll work, either.
Then I began to wonder. The ‘name snowflake' had kinda failed in Alphabet XPress because it couldn't do flip or mirror functions. But... What if... I created a small name design in AXPress, and saved it. Then flipped or mirrored it in Sizer, and saved that. Then brought it back up in AXP, and duplicated it, saving as needed ? It'd be a lot of repetition work, but I could probably do a name snowflake that way...
Just some other time. For some reason, my insomnia is raging again, and I'm really sleepy. Maybe after a nap...
