Need help with a large art horse quilt
06-30-2013, 01:35 PM
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Not a black and white horse, but a holstein cow, that I made from an actual photo. Perhaps some inspiration for you ....
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More info is in this thread .......
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...e-t114217.html
06-30-2013, 05:43 PM
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Have you ever done this type of work before? It sounds from the questions you are asking that this is something you really are not sure about "how to do". Like Jan I cannot really see just a horse's head on a queen size quilt plus shams with the same likeness! Maybe you should rethink doing this commissioned project
06-30-2013, 05:48 PM
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QuiltE, Love your cow! I'm a sucker for cows, they are so cute. I know it sounds silly but we feed our neighbors cows, we've given them all names, when they here our 4 wheeler they come running, it just cracks me up! Most people don't think they have personalities but they do. So did you use a program to help you design the cow?
06-30-2013, 07:17 PM
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I don't know if this will help at all but I watched quilt teacher Sue Rasmussen on The Quilt Show and she has a paper piecing method of constructing animals from photos that are beautiful and realistic. Here's her website http://www.suerasmussenquilts.com/ you might consider a one month subscription to The Quilt Show to watch the program she was on. Looking forward to pictures when you are done!
06-30-2013, 08:19 PM
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Thanks Sahm and LeatheFlea!
LeatheFlea ... Nope, no pattern, just went blindly into it!!! At the time I wasn't familiar with PPing at all, and now would probably go towards that. It definitely was a one-in-a-lifetime project, and probably of all the things I have done, it is the one of which I am the most proud. So many times, I came close to tossing it aside, but because the owner of the cow knew that I was working on it, I simply could not quit! If you check the link I provided, you can see the original picture that I started with ... both are hanging on my wall, side by side, and remind me to anything is possible. I think more so, if you go into it blindly!
LeatheFlea ... Nope, no pattern, just went blindly into it!!! At the time I wasn't familiar with PPing at all, and now would probably go towards that. It definitely was a one-in-a-lifetime project, and probably of all the things I have done, it is the one of which I am the most proud. So many times, I came close to tossing it aside, but because the owner of the cow knew that I was working on it, I simply could not quit! If you check the link I provided, you can see the original picture that I started with ... both are hanging on my wall, side by side, and remind me to anything is possible. I think more so, if you go into it blindly!
07-01-2013, 03:05 AM
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Thanks Sahm and LeatheFlea!
LeatheFlea ... Nope, no pattern, just went blindly into it!!! At the time I wasn't familiar with PPing at all, and now would probably go towards that. It definitely was a one-in-a-lifetime project, and probably of all the things I have done, it is the one of which I am the most proud. So many times, I came close to tossing it aside, but because the owner of the cow knew that I was working on it, I simply could not quit! If you check the link I provided, you can see the original picture that I started with ... both are hanging on my wall, side by side, and remind me to anything is possible. I think more so, if you go into it blindly!
LeatheFlea ... Nope, no pattern, just went blindly into it!!! At the time I wasn't familiar with PPing at all, and now would probably go towards that. It definitely was a one-in-a-lifetime project, and probably of all the things I have done, it is the one of which I am the most proud. So many times, I came close to tossing it aside, but because the owner of the cow knew that I was working on it, I simply could not quit! If you check the link I provided, you can see the original picture that I started with ... both are hanging on my wall, side by side, and remind me to anything is possible. I think more so, if you go into it blindly!
07-01-2013, 03:15 AM
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This is the way we did this sort of thing in art school. First you need the size of the subject. Next, tape a piece of tracing paper the size of the image on the wall. take a good pic of the subject, animal or human, put the picture into a projector and project the image on the wall onto the paper. You can now trace all the important areas of the subject. Use that tracing to place your applique pieces.
After selecting your fabrics to match your subject, iron on pellon interfacing to the wrong side of the fabric, cut out your patterns from you pattern and fuse them to your background. The background should have a tracing of the subject for placement of the patches.
After selecting your fabrics to match your subject, iron on pellon interfacing to the wrong side of the fabric, cut out your patterns from you pattern and fuse them to your background. The background should have a tracing of the subject for placement of the patches.
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