Absolutely stunning!!

Just amazing and you definately have tremendous talent.

As far as stabilizing for hanging I think you would want to mount it to some backing material that is probably stronger then regular cotton quilting fabric. I would suggest maybe contacting a museum or art gallery type websites to see if they have a suggestion. The International Quilt Study Museum in Lincoln NE comes to mind that they may be able to help.

I saw a quilt made by Don Locke who is/was a dentist that was titled The Supper. Yes, it is a quilt of the Last Supper. He use 1/2 inch squares too and there were 51,816 of them but I don't think this was his first quilt. You can go here http://thesupper.net/ to see and read about it. I saw it in person a number of years ago and could not believe it so I am sure I would feel the same about yours. Perhaps there is some information about how his was quilted on that site. (Linda Taylor of TX quilted it.) Perhaps you could even contact him via that site to ask about it. I know it was hung on some sort of frame when I saw it and it appeared stable but I cannot remember now how it was quilted. It's 183" X 67". Really awesome!!!

Oh WOW That is a masterpiece!!!!
My daughter will go crazy when she sees that she is a huge fan of Tom Hiddleston.
Maybe I had better not show it to her, she will want me to make her one :p

wow, just wow.
amazing job you did there..
you need to send him a picture of it, and maybe he'll visit with you and sign it too.
amazing job you did there

Your quilt is absolutely stunning. I cannot find words. It is truely a masterpiece.

I would sure be interested in how you made it.

I'm sorry that I have no ideas as to how to quilt/stabilize it.

amh

That is so amazing! Forty thousand squares! You did a fantastic job. I'm sorry I can't help with how to quilt or stabilize it, but it is truly impressive. Did you have a computer generated picture that helped with your choice of colors for each pixel, or did you choose? Beautiful work.

I stand here and applaud you for an outstanding, fantastic job!! Absolutely amazing especially since this is your first quilt. I bet in no time at all you will be winning awards at Quilt Shows! You should enter this into a show!! Not sure of how you would stabilize this, just had to tell you how impressive your quilt is!!

Wow! Wow! Wow! Your first quilt? Unbelievable! And welcome to this board.

I used a computer program to render a photo of his face into the fabrics I was using (with a bit of improvisation here and there for creativity)

I did this by cutting a 1-inch sample swatch of all of my fabrics and scanning them into my computer. I saved them in a folder as "001.jpg 002.jpg 003.jpg" etc. This way, the program knew what fabrics I had to use and could generate the pattern based on the parameters I set. It took a few rendering tries, but I finally got a pattern that I liked.

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- odd jpg repeats in the background means the program isn't understanding "black" correctly
- colours are too muddy
- contrast is too sharp at the edge of the face
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- Very grainy
- Don't like the crop of the image, I would have been wasting so much time on boring background
- Shadows on the face are sharp and aren't rendering correctly

These were two early test renders. (they are very shrunk down, the original .JPG images I render are ENORMOUS and I could never upload them to the internet) You can see in both of them the computer was struggling to adapt the colours of the photograph to my fabric swatches. The first one had odd repeats in teh background, and the second came out muddy and grainy. It was just a matter of finding the right source photo with good lighting and contrast and finding the correct settings to render it.

This is what my pattern looks like when zoomed in

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Of course, the pattern I work from is still mcuh larger than this so I can see which swatches I'm using when I create my blocks, but you get the idea. It repeats the same swatch in its proper position, and I follow the pattern.