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My Crafty Legacy, Part 2: Preserving a Quilt with the Flip-Pal (& GIVEAWAY)

Earlier this month I shared part of my crafty legacy by showing you the beaded sequined ornaments that my Great-Grandmother Ethel left behind. Today, I’ll share a quilt she made, and how I’m hoping to preserve it using the Flip- Pal Mobile Scanner (feel free to read my review of that, too.)

So, once upon a time, probably in the late 40’s or early 50’s, my Great-Grandma Ethel made a quilt. Actually, several, but this one was special- it was the one she made for her own bed. This style of quilt is usually called “redwork” because, traditionally, the quilter would embroider a design in red (or less often, blue) on a white background. Then it would have been joined by red sashing and quilted.

Well, GG Ethel did NOT make a redwork. Instead, hers was Bubblegum Pink! And you’ll see below, it’s so faded that everything is almost white. There is just a touch of color left in the embroidery to give me the clue that she was a Quilt Rebel:

My poor quilt is faded and filled with holes and threadbare spots.

Also, in the corner squares, the stitching has pulled out or degraded to the point where you can barely see it. But here are a few of the lovely baskets that remain:

This poor quilt is beyond repair, I fear. But I have this idea now to make a copy of GG Ethel’s quilt, using the same embroidery patterns from hers. I’ve been stumped as to how to copy the patterns… it seemed too difficult to lug this thing to the copy shop and try to copy the quilt itself.

Enter the Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner.

Scanning is the answer! First, I can scan the actual quilt and use the “Stitch” mode to create a single image. (That will be great for the scrapbook, too, because as you can see from he above photos that the pictures don’t turn out well.)

I actually needed to scan each block 5 times to get it all….and then I used the magic Flip-Pal  to scan one of the blocks:

Ok, I missed the part in the middle, but it’s just white space anyway. But the idea is that I’ll be able to print it out, enlarge, and use it as a template to make my own version of Great Grandma Ethel’s quilt. And THAT’S preserving a legacy!

Stay tuned to see my progress through the year, as I scan and re-create the quilt. But in the meantime, what would YOU do with a Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner? ‘Cause I have one to give away!

Contest Rules: Open to US residents only. Winner will be chosen Dec. 31, 2010 around 12 EST via Random.org. You have THREE chances to win:

  • Leave a comment sharing what you might do with a Flip-Pal if you win it.
  • Leave an additional comment if you are a fan of CraftTestDummies on Facebook.
  • Leave an additional comment if you are a fan of Mobile Scanning on Facebook.

Winner will be notified via e-mail and has 5 days to respond- otherwise a new name will be drawn.

This contest is closed- but read who won it here!

Comments

  1. A mobile scanner has been on my wish list for ages! Though I’d use it for archiving recipes, patterns, etc, my #1 use would be digitally capturing my child’s artwork so I can truly preserve it forever.

  3. I would love to win a Flip-Pal mainly to preserve my family heritage.
    Thanks for the chance to win.

    Happy Holidays everyone

  5. Wow! First off, I’d never heard of this amazing device and I can see it being very useful in our home. Thank you for the great review.

    As the family historian for both sides, I have been given lots of old, reddish orange photos, to correct them would be amazing.

    I was also gifted with embroidered pillows that are losing their fight with time. To recreate them so our children (and theirs) could have these pieces of our history would be incredible.

    Also, my MIL is an avid quilter. I could see many applications for Flip-Pal in her work.

    Thanks for the giveaway.

  7. I would love to scan in more quilt designs – I love your idea of preserving this way, but I am thinking more for scanning in for silk screening them!

  8. This would truly be a great gift…. for me! on Christmas!! Moms always seem to get left out.. haha!

  9. I am now a fan on facebook with Crafttest Dummies – by the way I do get a lot of great ideas from you. Thank you for such a great blog and Happy Holidays.

  10. And I signed up as a fan for the MobileScanning because I just keep thinkng of more ideas for this – to be able to scan in kids artwork that easily would be great too!

  11. I, too, would scan my childrens’ artwork, to preserve it forever. Also, a lot of the business cards I get should be considered art and preserved.

  14. Scanning children’s art or loved ones’ handwriting for use in quilts, pillows, framed pieces . . .

  15. I love the way you thought outside the box for this. I have an old family cookbook from the mid-1800s that I would love to preserve, but it is too delicate for me to scan normally – This would be awesome!

  19. Wow! Inventive! I would use it to scan very old needlework and a very old baptism record of Grandma’s and then old scrapbook pages from my mother and father and his old photos are so well glued down that they fall apart if I touch them. This is a great item. Merry Christmas and Happy New year!

  20. I would love to have a Flip-Pal mobile scanner! It’s exciting to see what can be done with the mobile scanner. I’d love to scan ancester pictures from relatives. I also have tons of photos that my mom would like copies of, however I don’t want to rip them out of the old sticky album.

  21. I would love to have this product. I make cards, and am always a little sad to use one, as I fear that the ideas that went into it will be lost forever. This would be a great way to document the cards so that I could send them freely.

  22. I messed up my email address on the previous post (the hazards of having too many addresses), but I am a fan of Craft Test Dummies on Facebook (thanks Nicole)!

  24. I would love to win a Flip-Pal mobile scanner to scan pictures and my vast collection of recipes.

  25. I would use one to preserve everything that I have left from my son. He passed away in 2008. Doing the pictures was easy, but I would like to preserve the other things in his life that I still have. A mobile scanner would be great for this. It would also come in handy for working with genealogy, especially in cemeteries to be able to scan headstones. What a wonderful concept this scanner could be great for many things!

  26. I would use it to scan my old photos to preserve them digitally. I could also use it for my business to scan business cards that I receive!

  29. I would use it to scan material for my ever increasing maternal and paternal genealogy notebooks.

  30. I have some recipes written in my mother’s hand. i would scan them and make a cookbook for each of my daughters.

  32. A nifty tool with a ton of uses. Since it’s portable would be handy to scan heirloom photos from relatives without worry to the original.

  33. If I win the flip-pal I will get caught up on scanning all of the old pictures my parents have from my childhood 🙂

  38. I would use one to, like you, scan my grandmother’s quilts that are fading, literally and figuratively. Such beautiful,delicate work in such a hard life she had…

    edie

  40. Oooh, the possiblities with a Flip-Pal! I’d use it at work, I’d use it at home. I’d use it for fun and not-so-fun projects. Most of all, I’d have a working scanner to continue to scan heritage photos!

  43. I follow you on Facebook. I love the inspiration I get when I read your blog and see what you have created. I would love a Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner since I also love doing research for genealogy. Taking the Flip-Pal would save time and money when I make trips to the courthouse and have to pull out the old documents to make copies. Using a camera is great but you still don’t get a flat picture. Happy New Year!

  44. I would love to one to scan everything from prized family photos my grandmother will not let out of her sight to recipes.

  45. OMGosh! What an amazing idea! I adore my grandmothers quilts too and I completely appreciate what you are doing here. I can’t wait to see how it turns out.
    I can totally see scanning in some of my grandmothers quilts either as backgrounds for web pages or to print for scrapbook pages. I’d really like to scan photos my mother put in one of those photo albums with the sticky pages. They are pretty much ruined from being stuck in those albums for so long. Boo! But if I could scan them I’d have them forever! 🙂

  48. I would use it on old photographs, to eliminate the age old ‘who gets what’ argument. Also could be cool for inspiration from Nature, scan the texture etc and take it home.

  49. What a neat idea! If I won a mobile scanner, I’d try taking it “into the wild” as part of my summer camp art program- scanning kids’ art so I could share the images with our donors and friends. I would also use it to archive and share my son’s artwork with far-flung relatives; melted crayon art and macaroni collages just don’t mail well.

  51. A Flip-Pal Mobile scanner would make this Christmas season complete for me and my son.

  52. I’d love to win this scanner! I’d use it to scan in family
    photos so they can be shared with other family members.

  53. What an interesting product! I’ve been looking for a way to preserve the photos from my grandparents’ childhood scrapbooks. This seems perfect!

  55. I used to work at an archive, so I know how delicate
    anything on paper is–I would really like to use this to digitize
    old photographs and paperwork from my family. Then I can print the
    digitized versions for scrapbooking and not worry about the acid
    from the old paper damaging the books I make.

  56. I would love to use the scanner so I can make preserve special photos and make a family album. I also want to make an album for someone special in my family! Shhh-don’t tell

  59. I would love to take it over to my Uncle’s and other
    various family members and scan our family photos. Thanks so much
    for the chance! 🙂

  62. Wow, so many uses for the Flip-Pal! I have plenty of relatives who are afraid to let me take their old, frail photos home with me to scan, and/or they have old family albums with TONS of great photos in them, so I could bring the Flip-Pal to my relatives instead! I could also use the Flip-Pal to scan documents at archives instead of paying for photocopies. It’s portable enough that I could bring it with me to genealogy conferences and expos to scan handouts or a variety of other items. I could also use it to quickly scan photos and documents that my clients have in their possession. Yep, I definitely want one! 🙂 And it would be a great holiday/birthday gift for me this month!

  64. I would take it with me my mom’s house and start scanning the old filet crocheting that my great grandmother made and start making patterns. Then start scanning the hundreds of picture in my mom and and mom-in-laws albums.

  67. What a beautiful quilt that still is — I can only imagine what it was like when new. I would love to have one of these little scanners for all of my pictures and cards that I make. Happy New Year!

  69. Wow. That is such a great use of a wonderful gadget. I would use the Flip-Pal to preserve family photos. My mom passed away this summer and it prompted me to try and preserve EVERYTHING. My dad handed me bags and bags of family photos and I’m trying to scan them in with an HP all-in-one, but it takes forever and the results are less than great. The Flip-Pal really seems like it would be much better.

    My mom was a sewer, too. There are a few pictures that she embroidered that I could capture the same way you are preserving your quilt.

  70. Posting again to let you know I’m a fan of Craft Test Dummies on Facebook.

    Also, I just realized that I have a scrapbook that my grandmother made in the ’40’s that I could also capture. I was wondering how in the world I would scan it in without tearing it apart, but this would totally be the answer. Thank you!

  75. I would scan photos and recipes my mom, grandma and others have in order to preserve “legacy”! This would be SO fun!!!

  76. I love the thought of “restoring” some of my old photos that I don’t have negatives/digitals of that have discolored. I also think it may be a good way to get copies of some patterns I have that have been used several times and are tearing at the pinholes.

  78. It would be fun to scan artwork from picture books to recreate on fabric. I’m remembering a sheet that a friend of my mother made with embroidered characters, across the top edge, from Winnie the Pooh (probably 50 years ago now). It was lovely and I always admired the effort she put into it. It was beautifully executed, and I’ll never know how she managed to copy the images, obviously not the original size of the illustrations. Just one idea, but I imagine there are many, many uses for this tool.

  79. If I won the Flip-Pal scanner, I would give it to my mother. She is a genealogist and I think she could get a lot more use out of it than I would. I think it would really help her with scanning old records and photos, and it would save her a lot of money in copies.

  82. katherinekinnaird on facebook is a fan ctd,would lovethis flip-pad for the wonderful craters in my life

  83. katherinekinnaird is a fan of flip-pad mobile scanner on facebook
    so many memories could be made w/this

  84. I would love the Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner to capture pictures and mementos in scrapbooks and photo albums that belonged to my grandparents and parents. I’d love to make scrapbooks using reprints of these items for my sister and cousins so we can all have these pieces of history.

  88. My mom has an old-style scrapbook she kept of newspaper clippings from the 1970s, when my family was in the news. Even the paper that these yellowing scraps were mounted on is now fragile, brittle, and fading. Dare we try to maneuver this large book over a scanning bed of any kind? It would be an extremely delicate task. Sounds like this mobile scanner is the solution to preserving this family history.

  92. I would love to win the scanner so I can show people out of the area my work as I save old photos and new ones! I love to be able to share with family and friends my work as I try to save photos and things that are old and that need to be saved so we can pass them on to other generations!!!

  93. If I won a Flip-Pal, I would immediately scan some old photos but the other thing I would love to scan would be copies (signatures, etc.) of my family’s handwriting. I save envelopes, etc. that I have been sent in the mail by my father and grandmothers. Thanks for the chance to win!

  94. I can think of so many uses for this. I do genealogy and
    scanning old pictures, scanning at cemeteries, scanning documents
    at library’s or reference places, etc. Also seeing the demo on the
    quilt made me think about an old quilt or two that I have. I know
    that I will use this all the time. I sure would like to win
    it!!!

  95. I would love to have the opportunity to try this scanner! I would used it to scan old newspaper clippings that are falling apart as well as taking to to relatives homes when we are traveling to scan family photos.

  96. What a great idea. I’ve been wanting a Flip Pal Mobile Scanner since I saw a demo at the Atlanta Family History Expo. However, I’d never thought about the fact it could be used to scan more than just pictures or papers.

    I have a quilt made for me by my great grandmother for my high school graduation. It’s the last quilt she made and one of my most treasured possessions. I’d love to have the Flip Pal so I could scan my quilt before it’s too worn.

    I’d also use it to preserve the boxes of pictures a couple family members have. I know my mother-in-law has some photographs that are getting quite fragile after being passed down through several generations.

  97. I have been researching since 1979 and have found many books and folks with photographs that I have wanted to and they are willing to have me scan their items. I have access to pre1900 and misc later years of City Meeting Minutes – with data that is no where else. I don’t have room to list all the items images. I would be able to go to our state library and photograph much archived data. I would buy one but I don’t have funds to do so. I have watched many videos and read much on your Flip-Pal and it seems to be just what I would need for these projects. Putting data online for other researchers is what I do daily. Thank you for the opportunity.

  98. I would LOVE to have a Flip-Pal to carry with me to scan old family photos that people don’t want to let out of their sight. Thanks for the chance to win one.

  102. A flip pal would be ideal to do old family photos to use in scrapbooking. I would use it a lot for family history when I go to a Family History Library. Why write down what you see when you can take a photo of it. Neat toy!

  103. With a flip pal I would be able to do history books for my kids a lot easier than what I am doing now. I may even let my daughter use if for her scrapbooking.

  105. I’m a genealogist – so I would do everything with it. Family archives, friends photos- archive my Soroptimist Club archives etc. There are more things to do than I will probably have time for. Hooray for the Flip-Pal

  106. I’m not sure where to leave comment for the fan pages. However, I am now a fan of Mobile Scanning on Facebook. It is a great tool – wonderful for scrapbookers, genealogists and anyone who wants to reduce paper clutter.

  107. I’m also a fan of Craft Test Dummies on facebook. Nice to see such a positive commercial venture on facebook. And,…. of course the Flip-Pal is a wonderful tool.

  108. I would love a Flip Pal to scan pictures from family members who are reluctant to lend out their pictures. I could scan them at their home and they wouldn’t have to worry about them while they were out of their sight. I would also be able to scan my family tree from a relative that just never remembers to scan it for me. I think the Flip Pal would be used for many other things by myself and my family members.

  109. What a joy it would be to be able to capture the paat using the buddy system. This not only would be possible but it would be accomplished -if I had a side-kick -a traveling buddy. Of course, the capabilities of Flip-Pal would make it the perfect fit to become my buddy. Through photo scanning using the Flip-Pal moblie scanner, the buddy system would work perfectly -and the past would be captured and preserved perfectly, too.

  110. I would love to scan pictures of my ancestors for a quilt for my girls. I also thought the Flip Pal would be handy scanning fabrics in a store when someone askes me to make them a quilt in a certain shade of blue for example. I’d scan all the blues with and with designs to show them how difficult it can be to pick out colors. That’s why I always insist they go pick them out with me. I’d love to scan some of the embroidery my grandmother made me and have that also on a quilt for my girls.

  111. Love this example! Flip-pal stitching for large format, textiles etc = awesome. Will use for sure!

  112. I have a Flip-Pal & have scanned many photos. Wish I had had it when I was working and needed to copy large photographs.

  114. I would love to be able to scan family pictures as I visit
    relatives this year. I would definitely be able to put the Flip-Pal
    mobile Scanner to good use.

  115. I would love to win this! As I’ve said in earlier posts,
    this product rocks! I had a chance to play with my friends Flip-Pal
    and absolutely LOVED it! I do a bit of everything, genealogy,
    crafts, card making, photography. This would be so handy next time
    I go to my grandmas house. That way I can leave her beloved photos
    with her so she don’t have to worry about anything happening to
    them. The Flip-Pal is a wonderful idea; great job to the creator
    :o) I can’t wait to try it on headstones and other
    artifacts.

  116. I have some large documents, such as my grandfather’s velum
    certificate of graduation from dental school, that I would scan to
    share with the family. They are too big for regular scanners or
    copy machines. The flip pal would be a great help with preserving
    these documents.

  117. If I had the Flip-Pal scanner I would use it to scan jewelry that I make before it leaves and becomes someone else’s. I could also do a series of “in progress” scans to track how the pieces were created. It would be fun to keep a record of the way different pieces came together.
    I am a fan of Craft Test Dummies on Facebook, but not mobile scanning.

  118. I also have a quilt of ancient origin, this one with embroidered signatures of my Mothers long deceased family members. A Scan of the quilt would be a great keepsake, wouldn’t it. Thanks for the idea and please pick my entry for the winner!!!!LOL

  119. I saw this demonstrated at a genealogy conference,what a great tool to further your documentation in all fields of family history,photos,books,info at court house and more.The Flip-Pal will be as important as your computer, camera and hard copies of the
    keepsakes WOW!

  120. If I were to win a Flip-Pal, I would give it to my best friend Barbara. She is a genealogist extraordinaire and would use it to make extended family histories.

    May I tell you about an idea for the final use of your Grandma’s Redwork Quilt. You could cut it in several smaller pieces and, with a particularly fabulous mat or background, frame the pieces in shadow boxes to share with her granddaughters. Together with the history of her, it would be a most treasured keepsake.

  121. I had looked everywhere for a portable scanner to handle the numerous photos in my mother-in-law’s closet. Sadly she passed away and I didn’t get thos pictures scanned and I didn’t get names of the people in the pictures. I don’t want to make that mistake with my photos. If I had a flip-pal I would scan the photos and my genealogy records.

  122. The Flip-Pal Will be one of the handiest gadgets, since the digital camera, to aid me in my family tree research. I think everyone doing genealogy research needs a Flip-Pal Scanner.

  123. Would definitely use the Flip Pal for my family history work – when visiting relatives to copy photos and documents. Very helpful when a book is involved and you cannot run individual sheets through a scanner or get a good copy from a flatbed scanner.

  125. I am the family historian and also a crafter. I have a list a mile long with everything I would love to scan if I could win the Flip-Pal! I also have a quilt that I should scan after reading your post! Thank you for the chance to win one!

  126. So many ideas… some with a family history theme… documents and phots… And on and on…

  127. A Flip-pal would be as useful as a computer for documenting and recording your history. Pictures and documents can be dopied right on the spot. Oh! what i could accomplish in much shorter time.

  129. Wow! I would scan MY grandmother’s handmade quilt, just as you did. Then everyone could have it. Thanks for the detailed explanation.

  130. I wonder if I would use a Flip-Ppal more in the scrapbooking classes I teach or in my genealogy research. In the scrapbooking classes I find very few people know the technology behind digital scrapbooking and a
    good demonstration on how to use a scanner would be extremely helpful.
    Since I am not about to carry my home scanner into classrooms it would
    be wonderful to demonstate scanning their photos with the Flip-Pal. Additionally, at the crops that I host a Flip-Pal would be the talk of
    the crop. Everyone would want to see it, try it, and rush to their computers to look at it on-line. When I am doing research it would be wonderful to scan those obits and certificates quickly.

  131. I would use the Flip-Pal while I interview family members in their homes. I scan their old pictures, process their stories, anything that they can show me or tell me, I document it. This Flip-Pal, besides the
    scrapbook classes I teach and the regular documentation of genealogy records, would be a HUGE asset to pull out of my bag.

  132. Loved reading about the old quilt and how to make a copy of it. Looking forward for more inspiring topics.

  133. If I won a Flip-Pal scanner I would share it with my photo lab customers to encourage people to scan and preserve their photographic memories. We scan photos for people with a commercial scanner but there are some that don’t want to let their old photos leave their possession. When I present my Preserving Photo Memories Workshop in 2011, I will demonstrate DIY scanning with the scanner that I will win. My website has a link to the You tube demo of the Flip-Pal Scanner and also a link to to purchase one through my website. I purchased a Flip-Pal scanner in October when they were first available and tell all my friends about the ease and portability. I love my Flip-Pal Scanner but need another to sell more.

  134. If I won the flip-pal Mobile Scanner, the first thing I would do is scan the large old scrap books of my grandmothers to preserve them and then work on my parents WWII military scrap books. It would be great to get them scanned and saved and share with the rest of the family. These scrap books are too large and would need to be taken apart to use a regular scanner.

  135. If I won the Flip Pad it would be a most helpful part of the book I’m writing for my grandchildren of their great, great, grandparents. I have boxes of photographs, some from the Civil War era and I need to preserve them and take photos from others books I’m using to show the cities these people lived in.

  136. Wow, what an amazing giveaway!!! I know the first thing that I would do with the Flip Pal is visit all of my family members & scan pretty much all of their photos!!! My parents house was destroyed by a fire a few years ago, and that’s what hurt my mom the most… the loss of all her photos!!! It would be exciting to be able to replace a lot of those….. especially the ones of my granparents & deceased family members!!

    Thank you so much for sharing & the chance to win!

    ~Ola
    okj83 at live dot com

  139. I craft in many ways, as well as keep the family genealogy of several branches back hundreds of years. When I connect with “new” distant cousins, we have “share fests” of info and photos – scanning with what I used to consider a handy, portable scanner – the Cano-Scan 2400. Comparing that machine to the flip-pro is like comparing my laptop to those old computers before the PC was introduced – the ones that took up whole rooms! 🙂

    I’d love to get my hands on one of those things!

    me<

  140. Also a facebook fan – I can see ways to use this for scanning a variety of images for doing photo-transfers for polymer clay. Lots of ideas percolating!

    me<

  141. The portability of the flip pal scanner makes it perfect for my lifestyle. For family history visits, I could scan photos, and family treasures small or large with the stitch feature. It would easily fit into my travel bag for quilt and knitting retreats.

  142. I would LOVE to win the flip-pal as I would use it to preserve my children’s artwork, etc. that is now in their “save-it” box. My older son is 25 and some of his work is becoming faded, worn-out and a little frazzled! I would love to scan his memories along with my 11 year old’s. I would also scan old family photos, documents, etc. We have a letter from a relative who was in the Civil War – it is becoming harder to read each time we take a look at it.

  145. I work at a library and I lent my Flip-Pal for use during one of our after hours genealogy research nights. Some of the attendees used it to scan a few pictures they had with them. For the next Genealogy Night, the library hopes to have a scanner or two available for even wider usage.
    It is such a useful tool.

  146. Would be a great way to handle documents that are now too fragile to really handle. Would help me preserve some of those family letters.

  150. The flip-pal is awesome…in addtion to scanning all our
    family photos, I’d like to use it to scan mixed media layouts to
    convert them to digital images that could be included in part or in
    whole in other projects. It’s fun to create digitally! Thanks for
    the chance to win! Ken

  152. I would carry my Flip-Pal in my purse to visit family
    members and scan their old photos for sure. I am very interested in
    photo restoration, and this would probably be my number 1 tool! I
    also love that I can scan artifacts, like tatting and embroidery,
    coins, tickets and archived documents. This very useful for me, as
    I travel internationally for historical research and of course
    cannot bring primary resources home with me. What about scanning an
    ancient mosaic, or even ancient graffiti? What an excellent way to
    save and share research, or even daily experiences for a blog! I
    would take it with me everywhere!

  153. Mobile scanning fan here! Just checking out the Facebook
    group now. Nice to see so many fans sharing what they are doing
    with the Flip-Pal.

  154. HI!
    My interests are genealogy and oral histories.
    When doing an oral history I often come across snapshots of old relatives and friends. These snapshots add greatly to the oral history, but, generally people are reluctant to let “someone else” take their pictures out of the house. The flip pal will be great to make copies on the spot.
    I have been looking for a truly portable copier for a long time and this looks like just what I need for oral histories.
    Neil

  155. I love the idea of having the Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner. It
    would be great for scanning family photos, crafts, recipes, etc. It
    would be a lot easier than using my large scanner which has to be
    used with a computer.

  156. I am going to make my mother in law a scrapbook/family
    history/family cookbook to preserve some memories and traditions so
    I would scan photos, handwritten recipes etc

  159. Last summer a family member showed up at our family reunion
    with a huge box of old black & white snapshots. There were
    pictures from four generations of family in the box. With a
    Flip-Pal I would help preserve these old snapshots for the family.
    I would also use it to scan documents that other family members
    have and to nervious about damage to let others take them to make
    copies.

  163. I want to scan my photos and also save some newspaper or magazine articles that I find interesting.

  166. Since learning about the Flip-Pal Scanner My mind has started to spin with ideas for it’s use; no matter the time of day or night. the door has been opened for endless possibilities.

  172. It would be good for old pictures from family and friends,
    and old newspaper articles and I’m sure much more.
    erroneous02(at)yahoo(dot)com

  178. If I won the Flip-Pal I would use it to scan my hand-drawn
    sewing patterns so that I can keep a digital copy of them. Thank
    you for the lovely giveaway. sewmuchstuff at ymail dot com

  181. I would first scan our old family photos with Flip-Pal
    Mobile Scanner. I have been puttig this project off for a long time
    now. I don’t want to take out the pictures from the album to scan.
    I afraid it might damage the photos. With Flip-Pal I can take the
    scanner and go over the photos without taking them out of the
    album. These pictures hold a lot of sentimental value to me because
    of my mom. Then I would burn the photos into a CD and give a copy
    to my brother and Dad. I want my kids and my niece and nephew to
    know their grandmother. I find inspiration everywhere around me.
    So, I would love to take flip-Pal with me and scan my inspiration
    on the go. Sometimes, you cannot capture the dimensionality of the
    projects. But with the help of flip-pal,I would be able to scan
    quilts,handi work like lace stitching and embroidery. Wow! it would
    be amazing!!! Just thinking about the projects that I would do with
    the help of Flip-Pal scanner is filling me up with a whole lot of
    excitement. Thank you Craft test dummies and Flip-Pal Mobile
    scanner for this awesome opportunity.

  184. I would use it to scan my son’s projcts he brings home from
    school. He is in 1st grade and comes home with cute things weekly.
    But it is hard to keep them all.

  186. I saw the review of the flip-pal when I became a CTD fan on facebook, and ordered one for my parents for Christmas. I’m so thrilled they have tried it out and love it – they are hard to buy for, but he’s an historian with a Civil War group, and both are interested in preserving family artifacts. Now I’d like one of my own for history, crafts, photos . . . Thank you!

  187. I also became a fan of mobilscanning (Flip-pan) on facebook, so I could offer ideas to my parents on using their new scanner. I can’t say enough about the ease of use of this product (road-tested by my parents, in their 70s, who may not always embrace new technology) and look forward to exploring more creative possibilities!

  192. My mother has been traveling around the world looking at
    our family history. I’d love for her to have this to copy any photo
    she might find that the owner doesn’t want to give up.
    Thanks!

  194. I love the idea of being able to easily scan family photos.
    Our family is spread out and there are many old photos I’d love to
    copy.

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Jenny Barnett Rohrs is Head Dummy and Pied Piper behind CTD, which focuses on reviews, tutorials, and craft industry news. Jenny has appeared on HSN, Scrapbook Soup PBS series, and is currently the co-host of Hands On Crafts for Kids on PBS.

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