Thread: Help with printing photos on fabric for a quilt

Originally Posted by Mamacandoit

Thanks for the replies.

I'm using the Blumenthal fabric.

I'm really struggling to get the photos set up so that I don't waste loads of the fabric paper though.

I have not printed photos or labels larger than 5x7, but this is what I do: I edit and crop the photo to the finished size I want, then print a test photo on regular copy paper. Then cut a piece of the photo fabric the width of the roll and a couple of inches wider than my photo or label. I use regular scotch tape and tape the photo fabric onto the piece of paper with the test photo printed onto it, with the photo fabric directly on top of and centered around the test print. Then I run that back through my printer. (My printer prints on the underside of the paper in the tray, so I put it in the tray upside down with the taped photo fabric on the bottom ) I have not had any issues with both layers feeding back through the printer. Hope that helps a little!

Yea, post a picture when you are done, would love to see it!

I use the fabric by electric quilt company. It can be a little pricy but I have made 3 quilts with photos. I have had minumal bleeding of color. I just put it threw my printer and set the pictures as in directions.