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I agree, add photos of family, especially grandparents if she was close to them, or cousins she was close to. Any pictures of pets would be nice too. I don't think I would include the photo of the boyfriend though. What if they break up? She may not want the photo in there. Can't wait to see what it looks like when you are done!

nativetexan

I did this one years ago for my Son. family pics.

quiltingfan

That is so nice. Did you have any problems with the pics? Kind of nervous about that.

PAMAR

When I made a memory quilt for my mom's 80th, in addition to pictures, I cut out hearts, had family members write a message on the hearts with pigma pens and appliqued each heart onto the quilt.

francie yuhas

If you put the BF on it,,,have him on the edge of a photo,so he can be appliqued over if necessary. You could start looking for skunk fabric to broderie -purse ! LOL! A quilters answer to photo shopping.

mighty

All ideas are great, I also agree I do not think I would add the boyfriend unless it could be taken away later.

Minnisewta

Sounds like a fun quilt to make but leave off the pic of the boyfriend. If they break up would she want to use the quilt?

QuiltnLady1

When you print the photos, make sure you use a good quality print ready fabric (I use printed treasures but I have heard the fabric from Electric Quilt Company is good too). When you print the pictures, if you have a program that allows you to do some fixing, I would make sure the colors are very strong (over saturated) since the color will soak into the fabric. After printing, Printed Treasures has you rinse the fabric to get the excess ink out. I then iron it good to help make sure it sets.

I would add family pictures and the idea of getting friends pictures from a yearbook would be cool (so would copying nice things friends wrote in the year book). Great memories. Nix the boyfriend -- if he sticks around he can be in another quilt.

quiltingfan

Thanks for the ideas, especially the thoughts on the bf. If he gets his feelings hurt than to bad. I suppose if I wanted him to stick around it would be different. And if they say anything I can always say waiting for the wedding.

nativetexan

since i did mine yrs ago, i actually took squares of fabric to a printing place and they had one of those large ironing machines (like t-shirt places have) and made copies of my photos (which i had placed on 8x11 paper) and ironed them onto my fabric for me. I just cut them up and made my quilt.
now i know about Bubble Jet set and all the special fabrics and would do them myself from my computer. I didn't sew through the photos, nor iron over them.