African American Fabrics: Using Apps for Digital Textile Printing Quilt

Digital Art-Created on my Kindle Fire

Creating beautiful mini-quilts from a simple Kindle Fire Andriod App has taken my digital textile printing to a whole new level. I am sooooooo EXCITED!! Using Android Apps like PicSay Pro  and Drawing Pad I now have my own "art studio" anywhere I take my Kindle. Even painting in bed can be done-- plus side, no mess.

Even more so, I can skip the Photoshop and other complicated desktop design programs and get right to the creating. I have spent some time since I've gotten my Kindle Fire researching the App Market trying to wean out the most useful and user-friendly productivity/design apps. There are many out there, under terms like: photo editing, drawing, sketching and paint. I suggest, if you are looking for a good app, play around with all of them and find the one that works for your needs.

Also, investing in a pad stylus would help with controlling your strokes. These go for about $8. I bought mine on Amazon.com.

Here's a sample of one of my sketches (completed from start to finish on Kindle Fire with PicSay App), along with a couple of my quilts resulting from these designs. Process included:

• Sketching with app
• Inserting pretreated (with BubbleJet Set 2000) fabric on freezer paper
• Printing using my Canon9000 printer
• Layering for quilting
• Free Motion Quilting

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Sisters, There A Jungle Out There, By Kweli Kitwana-Mini Quilt , 11" x  8.5"
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Brothas On The Move, By Kweli Kitwana-Mini Quilt , 11" x  8.5"
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