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06-27-2011, 05:28 AM

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clsurz

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What she said below is how I also do it.

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Originally Posted by Janquiltz

I make my own fabric sheets. Use prepared for dyeing fabric or get a good quality muslin and wash it to get the sizing out. Cut a muslin strip 9" wide WOF. Cut freezer paper about 8 1/2" wide and same WOF as your fabric. Sub-cut freezer paper to 11". Iron freezer paper on to the fabric strip, then cut fabric strip to 11". Your letter size fabric backed with freezer paper is ready to go through the printer so that you can print your photo on it. One hint is to cut a small diagonal piece out of each leading corner of your fabric sheet. This is suppose to allow the paper to feed through the printer properly. Another hint is to make sure whether your fabric sheet should be fed in to the printer fabric facing down or facing up. I usually write "fabric face up" and put the paper face up I print something to see if what I printed prints on the front or back and then feeding one fabric sheet at a time I print my pictures.

I let the photos rest for 24 hours to ensure that they are completely dry. You can remove the freezer paper at this point. Then I heat set them with the iron on cotton and press picture side down. Then I hand wash each fabric photo - let air dry and press again. Good luck. PS Your iron on sheets are probably meant to be used to put a picture or whatever onto the front of a tee shirt. I believe that this type fabric sheet makes a "rubber/plastic-type" print.

06-27-2011, 07:18 AM

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wannaquilt1

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Originally Posted by sewmagic

Here is a video from Sewing with Nancy. Hope that helps!
www.nancysnotions.com/category/video+demos/printing+photos+on+fabric.do

thanks so much! I'm going to get that stuff :)

06-27-2011, 09:19 AM

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GloBug

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I have done several photo quilts. 3 of them were old Photoes from the 30s and earlier I did on muslim they turned out very nice. Several others with newer photos I did on agood quality white or off white cotton. Hope this helps.

06-27-2011, 09:27 AM

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grammatjr

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Originally Posted by wannaquilt1

what do you use to make a photo quilt? I have iron on sheets where I got 5 sheets for $11 at Michales, but this seems expensive to me, does anyone know of any other or better way of doing it so it's not so much? I'd like to make one for my mom that has maybe 10 pics?

I too find the sheets expensive, and have had issues with them binding up when run through the printer (have actually ruined 2 printers this way).

But, my favorite method of photo printing, always works out, and is so much fun! It only does 2 colors, but is so beautiful. I do Cyanotype printing.

Below are some of my quilts, done with this method.

You can find out more at this web site, where I get my supplies:
http://www.blueprintsonfabric.com/index.php They recently came out with colors, and I made a quilt similar to my nephew's quilt, using pink, orange, green, blue, and yellow for a couple girls on their way to Bible College.

people at church praying for my nephew, heading off to Bible College

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made for a woman at church who was very ill, everyone at church wrote prayers for her, and I shaped them into butterfiles, with a poem about butterflies being prayers ascending to Heaven

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my 6 grandchildren, made for my daughter's 10th wedding anniversary

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