EQ7 and Reading

 Years ago I invested in my first Electric Quilt software. I could not believe the price but bought it anyway and took time to learn how to use it. I often drafted layouts from quilt pictures I found online. In my head, I was thinking I would make every one of them someday, but in the real world, I just had a lot of files. I even designed some original, at least to me they were original, blocks and colored them up filing them to make someday. Nearly 10 years ago, just after I finished my masters, I did a lot of playing in there and drafted out all the blocks for the Farmer's Wife Sampler and printed off the foundation patterns for those 6 inch blocks because I did not want to make them the way the book suggested. Then my laptop screen went lights out. There were still 2 weeks of warrantee so, I got new lights for the screen and a new hard drive. But, in the process, I lost every document that I had not backed up. I did, fortunately back up everything three months earlier so I had all my research papers and school files. But, I lost all the EQ files. 

Now fast forward nearly 10 years and I am trying to download the EQ7 updates and cannot. But, the computer keeps trying and does not let me into the program easily. I want to call the number on the box, but you have to remember to do that during business hours. In the meantime, a window keeps opening and I cannot get rid of it. Eventually, after pressing cancel a dozen times, QE7 opens up. But, there are no saved files. Where did they go? Even before I tried the update, I could only find a few saved projects. And all those gorgeous layouts I drafted up? Missing. 

I am on the third computer since purchasing the first program. Not sure how often I can load the program into new computers. Come to think of it, when I was drafting up some blocks for the Biblical Blocks quilt last month to make by foundation piecing, it never asked me if I wanted to save the document before closing. HM.

I have somewhere around 14 people coming for a turkey dinner tomorrow. The numbers keep changing depending on who has been exposed and who has a head cold and who has to work. It all comes down to how many potatoes go into the pot. 

And what have I been doing all day? Reading of course. A book. A really paper pages book. I carried up all the Benni Harper books today and started re-reading the Elm Creek Series starting with the Christmas Quilt then the Quilter's Apprentice. What a great storyteller she is. 

Blessings,

Chris