Year of Handmade: Dream craft products to use...

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March 27, 2015
This is the fourth installment of the "Year of Handmade" link up.  Rebecca of Rebecca Bee Designs asks us to blog about our dream craft product to use...

I am in love with Apple.  I was a PC girl for YEARS, but when I got this set up...
I was converted!  Mind you, mine does not run Windows, but you get the idea.  I adore my huge monitor.  It allows me to have several windows open at once while designing.  LOVE that.  My husband calls me a "power user."  Yes.  Yes I am. 

So if I have that, what more could I want?  Well...
A Macbook Pro with Retinal display.  2016 model of course, because we are dreaming here!  I'd love to take my ability to design where ever I go.  Yes, I do have my sketch book and my knitting graph paper book, but I love to chart my designs on a computer.  I truly missed my Mac when I was away at the IWK with Tress this past summer.  There was a few moments when she was sleeping or watching a movie that I had to myself and I literally ached for my Mac as I was plotting a design on paper.

And speaking of paper and charting...
I want this program soooo bad...  Right now, I'm using OpenOffice Draw to make my vector knitting charts.  It is really great, don't get me wrong.  I can resize a chart and it looks fantastic when dropped into my OpenOffice Writer knitting pattern template.  I was using OpenOffice Calc to chart in, but the charts had a "fuzziness" about them when I'd resize.  Not good.  In Draw, there is none of that.  BUT Draw has a very weird way of not aligning my charting blocks up even though they are on the same vector plains.  So very irritating!!!!  I tried InkScape, but it does not allow me to position blocks by typing in the coordinates.  I need that ability.  Plus, I'm really entertaining the idea of publishing a pattern book.  I think I really need the pro programs to do that effectively. 

Funny how my crafting dreams all revolve around computers.  Huh.  Hmm. 

I think of the two, it will be the program that I get first, IF a dream becomes reality. 

What are your crafty dream products?
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