Making  A Quilt Rack

This rack is designed to hold 4 130 x 130 squares.

You may send a link to this tutorial through email and to e groups, you may not send the tutorial.

If you have any questions please email me.

This tutorial is done using PSP 7.  It assumes that you are familiar with Paint Shop Pro.

You will need the  two following files,

My quilt rack selections 

Unzip them into a folder of your choice.

My quilt rack bevel presets

Unzip into your Paint Shop Pro Presets folder.

You will need  a wood pattern of your choice.  Either the Stained Wood or the Finished wood that comes with Paint Shop Pro works well.

You will also need a pattern of your choice to use for the runner on the top and the straps for holding your quilt if you  need.   I offer a variety of background tiles that would work well for this purpose.  You  can get to them from here.  The one I used above can be located here.

Step 1

Open a new image 650 X 260

Ser your foreground to the wood pattern of your choice.  Angle set to 0.

Step 2

Add a new layer. Rename Pole.

Load pole.sel.

Flood fill with your wood pattern.

Go to Effects/Inner Bevel and choose quiltpole form the drop down list.

Step 3

Add a new layer. Rename Ends.

Load pole-ends.sel.

Flood fill and apply same bevel from step 2.

Step 4

Add new layer. Rename Sides

Load sides.sel.

Set the angle of your wood pattern to 90.

Flood fill and apply same bevel from step 2.

Step 5

Add new layer. Rename Base.

Load base.sel

Set the angle of your wood back to 0.

Flood fill and apply quiltrack bevel.

While still selected go to Selections/Modify/Contract and contract by 2 pixels.

Go to Selections/ Invert and delete.

Step 6

(If you want to add a cut out to your quilt rack continue here)

Add new layer. Rename Back.

Load back.sel.

Flood fill and apply same bevel from step 5.

On same layer load backdelete.sel then delete.

You can save at this step if you wish, the following steps add the straps and runner.

Step 7

Add new layer. Rename Straps.

Load straps.sel.

Flood fill with a pattern of color of your choice.

Step 8

Add new layer. Rename Runner.

Load runner.sel.

Flood fill with a pattern of color of your choice.

Bonus.  adding a cute out to your Quilt Rack.

You can easily add a cut out to the back of your quilt rack.

That's it.  If you save as a PSP file you can easily change to pattern on the runner and the straps.  You can also add layers to decorate the shelf on your quilt rack.  

Step 6 with a Cut Out

Add new layer. Rename Back.

Load back.sel.

Flood fill with same wood pattern. 

Add a new layer and from your Preset Shapes choose one for your cutout.  A heart or a star works nicely.  Make sure that antialias is checked.

Setting your foreground to null and your background to a solid color and draw your shape to a size which is appropriate for your cut out.  Move it to the center top of your back.

Go to Selections/Select All then Selections/Float.

On your layers palette and click on your Back layer then delete.

Click on your Floating Selection layer, then go to Selections/Select None.   Go to Layer/Delete

Go to Selections/Select All then Selections Float and apply same bevel from step 5.

On same layer load backdelete.sel then delete.

To Add Straps and a Runner Click Here