rookie,
After both of my parents died I made memory quilts for each of my brothers and myself. I took the wedding pictures of each of us, my parents and both sets of grandparents to one of those places that puts pictures on tee shirts in our mall. I provided the fabric and the guy transfered the pictures on to the squares for me. I think he charged me $6 for each picture. That was in 1997.
After 9/11 I made three memory quilts for three children who had lost their father in the twin towers. Those I took photo transfer paper to a commercial copy place and they copied the family pictures I provided onto tranfers I then ironed on the squares for the quilts.
You have to be a little careful laundering the quilts but the transfers to last a long time. Most people don't launder a quilt very often.
Good luck with your project,
mpspeedy
rual Maryland