Quilting

Right about now I'm really missing PageMaker, the page layout software I used to use. I started out with version 1, on a Mac Plus, and over the years, until I upgraded to Mac OS 10+ and the application would no longer run (by that time I was using PageMaker 5.0) I used it for everything from actual page layout to making floor plans for rearranging the furniture. And right now I'm making a quilt, and I'm doing the same thing I used to do on PageMaker, except it's on graph paper, and it's just not as elegant. The quilt is to be auctioned at the Wiscon Tiptree auction; I've gotten photos of the two Guests of Honor (Kate Wilhelm and Jane Yolen) as well as photos of 35 past GOHs (all of whom have been invited back this year). I've got this cool stuff: fabric on a paper backing, which can be run through an inkjet printer, and I've printed all the photos on it, and I'm going to lay the whole out with interesting fabric (I was looking for cotton with a spaceship motif, but found a nice moon-and-stars instead, which will do for the back side. I"m still thinking about a couple of other fabrics for connecting fields on the front. But mostly I'm trying to figure out how to get an odd number of blocks to lay out pleasingly. It'll be fine in the end; I just miss PageMaker right now.