Once upon a time, there was a woman who liked to quilt. She spent hours picking out fabric, holding it up next to another piece of fabric, and trying to imagine what it would look like cut up into little pieces and sewn back together.

Sometimes, that was very difficult indeed to imagine!

So she bought some graph paper and crayons, and tried to draw out her quilts. But often, she ended up coloring the same block over and over again. This took a very long time.

"What if I could do this on the computer?" she wondered, "there must be software available!"

So she went online, and found a whole bunch of software. But it looked very difficult to use, and it was expensive. The woman wanted something very easy to use and inexpensive, and she just couldn't find it.

This woman was rather clever. So, very sweetly, she asked her husband (who happened to be a software engineer), "Do you think you could make me computer graph paper that I could use to color my quilts?"

Her husband was very clever too (and also very nice)! He designed a neat little program with blocks that could be colored and moved. And it worked great! So the woman asked her husband "Do you think you could cut the blocks in half to make triangles?"

And he could! And then she asked, "Could you make the blocks rotate?" And he did!

So she kept designing more and more quilts, and he kept adding more and more features to the little software program.

Soon the software was so neat that they just had to share it with other quilters. So the woman designed the web site (for she worked in software too), and they posted the software for free. And most people liked the software, and were very grateful that it was free. But sometimes people had questions. The woman and her husband liked to help, so answered all the emails as best they could. And then more emails came...and more....

And they spent their nights and weekends working on QuiltComposer, and paid quite a bit of money out of their own pockets to host the web site. In fact, they spent so much time on it that the woman didn't have any time left to quilt, and the husband didn't have time to add any new features!

After a few years this wasn't fun any more. It was work, but they weren't getting paid for it and it took up all their free time! They considered taking the software off the web altogether, but it seemed wrong to delete such a nice little software package that they'd worked so hard on. So they decided to make the little program shareware, hoping that their users liked the software enough to help support it and make it available for other quilters.

And the users did! They paid the small fee for QuiltComposer, and this helped the woman and her husband to pay for the web site, and help support their users, and add more features. And QuiltComposer got better and better, and the users and the programmers quilted happily ever after.

THE END. Please help make our fairy tale come true - Download and Purchase QuiltComposer!