Originally Posted by sheliab12
I love your memory quilt. We just had my Mom's service last week and my son did a wonderful video for the service. I would like to use these photos for it but wonder how you make all the squares come out right. Do you make the photos first then make the rest or do the reverse.
I scanned all the photos I wanted to use (and some extras) and put them all in a file on my computer. I printed pictures out, sometimes making pictures smaller or larger and working to get the right colors. When I had a stack of photos on fabric, I took them to my studio and started playing with them...I would group and just started adding strips and paper pieced blocks and ended up making rather large blocks, but wth no set design in any of them. I tried to include scanned pictures of old letters and envelopes and such...these I scanned as collages and used that as background fabrics in some places. I ended up making about 15 1/2" blocks, but had many smaller pieces and pictures within that block. I hope that helps...