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Computer Programs for Arts and Crafts

Rapid Resizer: Pattern Enlarging Software (Windows)

Pattern Wizard: Pattern Design Software (Windows)

Free Pattern Finder (online: Windows, Mac, iPad)

Quilting Software (Windows, Mac)

Design quilting and applique patterns on your computer. Then print full size on your home printer. Sizes bigger than a page are automatically printed across as many sheets as needed.

Quilting Pattern Resizing Program (Windows)

If you have a Mac or iPad, you can use Rapid Resizer Online.

Online Quilting Pattern Enlarging Software (Mac, Windows)

If you want to draw your own quilting patterns, you can easily make perfect designs using the Pattern Wizard and print them full size.

Quilting Pattern Design Program (Windows)

Rapid Resizer Online also includes a free tool to make a quilting pattern from a photo.

Rug Hooking Software: Design and Resize Patterns (Windows, Mac)

Design and print rug hooking patterns full size on your computer and home printer. Sizes larger than a page are automatically printed across pages.

Rug Hooking Pattern Resizing Software (Windows)

If you have a Mac or iPad, you can use Rapid Resizer Online.

Online Rug Hooking Pattern Enlarging Software (Mac, Windows, iPad, etc.)

If you want to draw your own rug hooking patterns, you can easily make perfect designs using the Pattern Wizard and print them full size.

Rug Hooking Pattern Design Software (Windows)

Rapid Resizer Online also includes a free tool to automatically make a rug hooking pattern from a photo.

Stained Glass Affiliate Program: $20 Commission on Pattern Enlarging Software

There's now an stained glass affiliate program for Rapid Resizer Online.

If your website appeals to stained glass artisans who need to enlarge patterns - or anyone who has designs to enlarge - then Rapid Resizer Online is a perfect fit.

Offer your visitors a free week of Rapid Resizer Online and earn $20 US for each person that buys my service.

I don't offer the free week of resizing on my site. This is a special offer for you to share with your readers and customers.

You don't even need your own website. Your can share your affiliate link through Facebook, e-mail, Pinterest, ...

Enlarging Patterns Easily: No More Photocopiers or Grids

Resizing patterns using a grid is error prone and takes too much time.

Resizing using a photocopier is expensive, you can't do it from home, and it's hard to get it to scale precisely.

You can print designs to any size on your home printer using the Rapid Resizer software. It automatically prints large sizes across multiple pages.

Start enlarging patterns now with a free trial of the Rapid Resizer.

You can also use the Pattern Wizard craft pattern design software to draw your own original patterns and print them full size.

Intarsia Software Programs: Design and Enlarge Patterns (Windows, Mac)

Print wood intarsia patterns full size on your computer and home printer using the Rapid Resizer. Sizes larger than a page are automatically spread over multiple pages.

Intarsia Pattern Enlarging Software (Windows)

If you have a Mac or iPad, you can use Rapid Resizer Online.

Online Intarsia Pattern Enlarging Software (Mac, Windows, iPad, etc.)

If you want to draw your own intarsia patterns, you can easily make perfect designs using the Pattern Wizard and print them full size.

Intarsia Pattern Design Software (Windows)

Sewing Pattern Software (Windows, Mac)

Print sewing patterns full size on your home printer using the Rapid Resizer. Sizes bigger than a page are automatically split over multiple pages.

Sewing Pattern Enlarging Software (Windows)

If you have a Mac, you can use Rapid Resizer Online.

Online Sewing Pattern Enlarging Software (Mac, Windows, iPad, etc.)

If you want to draw your own sewing patterns, you can easily make perfect designs with the Pattern Wizard and print them full size.

Sewing Pattern Design Software (Windows)

How to Enlarge a Pattern by 200 or 400 Percent

The Rapid Resizer pattern printing software can easily print your pattern to any size at home, but it tends to assume that you have a specific enlarged size in mind.

If you just want to enlarge what you have by whatever percentage or scale, the problem is that the Rapid Resizer doesn't always know the original real world size of the pattern image.

So if you want to, for example, double (200%) the size of what you have, you'll usually have to measure the original size with a ruler and type that into the Rapid Resizer. Then you can enter 200 in the % field and click the button to have it multiply for you.

You can also get the enlarged size using this little calculator:

Original width or height
Scale		%
New size	?

How to Find Free Arts and Crafts Patterns

Don't Google for the pattern. You'll have to dig through a lot of poorly organized junk websites.

It's much quicker to use Google image search. By setting a couple options you can get it to show only patterns.

1. Go to Google image search.
2. On the first page of search results, click on "Line drawing". It's near the bottom of the left hand column of options.
3. You may also want to click on "Black and white" a few options above.

This form does the same steps automatically:

Once you've found a pattern you like, you want to get the full-size version, in terms of detail not inches. It will print better with less blurring or jagged lines.

1. Click on the thumbnail in the search results, if you haven't already.
2. In the right hand column, click on "Full-size image".
3. When the full-size version appears, right click on it.
4. You can either copy and paste it into another program, such as the Rapid Resizer pattern printing software, or you can save it to a file on your computer.

Free Carving Pattern Maker Online (Windows, Mac)

The simplest way to make a pumpkin carving or wood carving pattern is to use my image to pattern maker:

1. Start with a photo on your computer. Or find one using Google image search.
2. Make a pattern from your photo.
3. You can print it one page by clicking on that option there, then find your browser's print button. Or if you're a Rapid Resizer Online user, you can easily use it to print your pattern precisely to any size, even larger than a page.

If you want more control over your design, you can use my carving pattern design software for Windows. In it you can easily draw a perfect pattern, then print it full size, automatically tiled over multiple sheets.

Stained Glass Software Comparison

Here's how my stained glass computer programs differ, so you can figure out which are right for you.

The original Rapid Resizer is for resizing stained glass patterns. It only runs on Windows. Technically, you can get it to run on a Mac, but it's tricky.

The Pattern Wizard is for designing your own stained glass patterns. Any pattern you draw in it can be printed full size, spanning pages, without the Rapid Resizer. If you want to enlarge patterns from elsewhere, you'll still need the Rapid Resizer. You get a discount when you buy both. The Pattern Wizard is also a Windows only program.

Rapid Resizer Online is the new version of the Rapid Resizer that runs in your web browser. Nothing to install and works on everything - Windows, Mac, iPad, etc. You buy it on a yearly basis. The downside is that it doesn't yet have all the features of the original Rapid Resizer. It does have a few advantages, such as integration with a word pattern maker and an option to keep lines smooth when enlarging extremely.