How do you perform a search on the forum?
04-20-2014, 06:49 AM
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How do you perform a search on the forum?
I am looking for tshirt quilt inspiration and when I enter that in search I get maybe two and alot of other stuff not pertaining to my search. I also looked on the quilt gallery but no tshirt quilts. I know people have made and posted a ton of them. Please help and thank you in advance.
04-20-2014, 07:11 AM
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when i want to find something on the QB, i do use our Advanced Search function and choose the left tab. if i want to find more than one word, i join them but using + : fan+duck . sometimes that doesn't work well either. if i know i saw it recently and my word might be in the title, i go to archives and pull up the list of the most recent 250 threads... then use control+f and use the windows search function at the bottom of the screen. like the others have suggested, i also search with google. but if i want to find something specifically on the QB, i also use quiltingboard as one of the search words. HTH
04-20-2014, 09:12 AM
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One of my favourites was done by watterside under the title 2 T-shirt quilts...totally screwed up one. Put the title in the search box and it should come up. It is the first one done on a yellow background with a shadow effect. Love that quilt!
04-20-2014, 10:13 AM
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I've been impressed with these people. Lots of inspiration here ...
http://www.toocooltshirtquilts.com
For a company "in the business" they are not afraid to share a lot about the how-to's.
You'll also find out lots about the layout/design possibilities.
Here's a link to the one that Tartan suggested ....
(BTW .. the correct spelling of the poster is WattersTide)
http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...e-t124838.html
http://www.toocooltshirtquilts.com
For a company "in the business" they are not afraid to share a lot about the how-to's.
You'll also find out lots about the layout/design possibilities.
Here's a link to the one that Tartan suggested ....
(BTW .. the correct spelling of the poster is WattersTide)
http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...e-t124838.html
Last edited by QuiltE; 04-20-2014 at 10:19 AM.
04-21-2014, 11:26 AM
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Using the general search function on QB will result in lots of extraneous stuff being returned. Here's how to do a more targeted search, look for a specific word(s) in the title only and in a specific forum. This example is for TShirt in the Picture section of the Forum, but you get the general idea.
-Go to "Advanced Search" in the upper right of this page.
-Next click on the "Search Single Content Type" on the left side, under the ad
-Put "TShirt" (without the quotes) into the "Keyword(s)" box
-Select "Search Titles Only" from the dropdown
-under "Additional Options" select "Pictures" from the "Search in Forum(s)" list.
This will bring up all the postings in the Pictures section that have TShirt in the title. I would then repeat the search, but this time use "T shirt"
-Next click on the "Search Single Content Type" on the left side, under the ad
-Put "TShirt" (without the quotes) into the "Keyword(s)" box
-Select "Search Titles Only" from the dropdown
-under "Additional Options" select "Pictures" from the "Search in Forum(s)" list.
This will bring up all the postings in the Pictures section that have TShirt in the title. I would then repeat the search, but this time use "T shirt"
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