iPad for Quilters class

 

On my first day back after another trip to Spokane and back (successful injections so far, yay!) I took an online class through Mancuso Brothers Virtual Schoolhouse. Thankfully it started at 9am instead of lots earlier. The teacher,Cristina Arcenegui Bono, was located in Italy and she was mindful of wanting to include West Coast students. The class was called iPad for Quilters, and it was six hours full of all kinds of  new information for me. There are so many little tips and tricks for using the iPad, and they're hard to remember without using them all the time. Or to have them taught to you in context so you know why they're important to try and remember. So some was a review, and some was absolutely new. All of it useful and now I feel much more fluent with using both Procreate and my iPad.

Now I know how to use layers much better and see why they're so useful. Cristina was a great teacher, really funny and well-prepared to help the people in the class who were at very different stages of adeptness with the iPad.

And I am now planning to try out using my Cricut to cut out appliqué pieces from my sketches.

 

 I had a clementine as a snack during class and we were learning how to make our own color palettes from photos or files. So I snapped a picture with the iPad and made a palette out of all those great shades of orange.

This picture made for a really lovely palette. Palettes are useful for color choosing when you're sketching on the iPad, it narrows down the limitless colors to the ones you want to concentrate on using.