I am trying to design a queen size quilt that is a picture of one large yellow rose with a pink throat against a blurred green leaf background. The single bloom will be about 1/2 the size of the bed top. The quilt pieces will be 2" squares and I expect to have have about 30 colors of green, yellow, pink and cream. What catagory of quilt will this be? I am having some trouble with the design - am working from a beautiful photo of a rose. Those of you who have made one similar to this, would you please share your pictures? Or have ideas that could help on the design please share. Essentially I am trying to blow the photo up to bed size and reproduce it in cloth. Thanks

i have seen quilts like this cant think what it is called will try to find it sewing with nancy did a program on this called
Picture Perfect Quilts

With Photoshop you can break up a photo into squares of color.

Cool project! Will love to see pictures of what you do.

Thank you for the suggestions. Have you made these type of quilts?

look at this site http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/2...t-pattern.html

I think it would fall under the category of art quilt. It is not a landscape, there isn't a back ground... Water color quilts are usually designed completely by using squares of fabric.
I can't wait to see it, loving the way you described it :D:D:D

I've done it by hand on graph paper but it's very time consuming. Hope you share with us when it's finished.

Mosaic art quilt. I've got one in my head rattling around :)

It'll be in the "Wow, that's wonderful" category. :mrgreen:

Jan in VA

sewwhat85-Thanks so much for that fabulous site.

If you made a quilt of your avatar using 2" squares, no applique, no paint ,then you would have my quilt - only I will be using a different flower. At least that's my hope.