I finished the top of the WH (now a couch throw). I had one of my "signature moments" so had to rearrange my borders. I wanted the outside border to be brown and the inside blue but didn't have enough of the brown for the wider, larger border so there came the "design change".

I am pleased with it but am scared to death to put it on my gracie and quilt it.

The pic of the dog is made up of 16 - 6 inch squares (4 x 4) so is 24 x24 inches. I decided not to add a window pane effect cuz I don't think the seams are that noticeable (sp?). Am tempted to put a crystal in the bottom of the white of the eye.

Also, including this quilt top, I have never sewn a half square triangle, I am a little shy of that type, afraid of the bias edges and the stretch. I use Jodi Barrows SnS for triangles.

Donna

Wow! That is awesome! The borders are perfect this way!

Very nice Donna. Beautiful dog.

The blue border looks fine - it's great!

I can only say..... WOW!!!!

OMG!! It is beautiful just the way it is! Was that a large photo of the dog? I got lost somewhere...why is the dog made up of smaller squares? Anyway...whyever or however, you did an amazing job...now girl...put that thing in the gracie and get to quilting!

(be sure to post a finished pic of it too!)

The dog was an ordinary photo I took on my digital camera, brought it into Corel PhotoPaint and enlarged it to 24" x 24", then cut that into 6" squares, 16 (4 x 4) of them. So, the center pic of the dog ended up being about 23 3/4 inches square.

Donna

How clever are you...that is truly inspirational...I have just bought a better printer to get into photo fabric printing...so I will be bookmarking this for future reference.

Your boxer is gorgeous by the way, fantastic work :D :D :D

What a beautiful setting for such a pretty dog, i love the borders

Really neat quilt!!! I love how you did the photo of the dog. I have never tried to do anything that big, but you have inspired me! The border is great. I am glad that you did not have enough of one of your fabrics to do the border the way you originally planned. I think this border is so much better!! Thanks for posting!!

nice clean job - we do love our animals

What a wonderful quilt. Everything is great. Just go for the quilting. I know you will do great.

I LOVE IT! I have dogs too and if I could figure out how to do that large picture thing, I would!

if you hadn't said the photo was pieced, i would never have guessed. WOW!!!

you realize, of course, i shall have to flatter you by imitation. now ... to find a sneaky way to photgraph friends' pets without their knowing. :wink:

Wow! Great job. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Oh my gosh, that is so cute. Is that an enlarged photo of your dog? Your points and squares look perfect and the colors are perfect for that photo. Really, really nice job there.

Well, I'm glad someone asked my question, because all I can say is WOW what a great quilt and a great job you did. So get to quilting so we all can see.

Ok, I see how you did it now....I'm not good enough on the puter to figure out how to enlarge and cut, then print. I've done some phote printing on fabric for a memory quilt, but nothing like what you did. Again, awsome job! Can't wait to see it totally finished!

that is such an awesome quilt!
Wow!

I want to make it, too.
Definitely on my "one day" list.

I have been taking a second look, how did you get around the seam allowances, when you enlarged the picture did you overlap the image to allow for the seams?????

Love it! We've had Boxers in the past.

Wow thats beautiful. Now what do you tell the dog when he wants to nap on it lol :wink:

Amazing! Can you tell me how you did this? I would love to this with a picture of my dogs.

Kyia

How did you do the seam allowances??

Kyia

So awesome I see everyone is inspired to repeat your wonderful work..including me...we all would like better directions... :D

WOW! What a great quilt

Your work is beautiful. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

This question is for Izy. What kind of printer did you purchase for fabric photo printing? I'm trying to put together a memory quilt for my son. Thank you for any advice.

WOW!!!! Looks so beautiful!!!
G

By the way, is this your own dog? Looks like a Boxer.?

WOW! You did an AWESOME job!

Oh my gosh, thank you all for the compliments.

I will try to type up what I did and get it posted as soon as possible.

Donna

I took a picture of Cyra on my digital camera and brought it into Corel PhotoPaint. I resampled it to the size of 24" x 24". I then made the rulers visible so I could see exactly where I wanted to "cut" each piece.

When you start cutting you want to do all the pieces at one sitting, ask me how I know this. Anyhow, I cut a 6" square and then select file, new from clipboard and it pasted it as a new picture. I exported that as row 1, square 1. The next piece I cut was from 6" over to 12" over and down to 6". Again, I selected new from clipboard and exported that as row 1, square 2. I did all of row 1 that way naming the squares consecutively up to 4. I then did the same thing for rows 2, 3 and 4, ie: row 2, squares 1, 2, 3 and 4. Row 2 started at 0", over to 6" and down to 12"

Here is sort of an example:

Col
0...____6_____12_____18_____24

6...R1 S1 | R1 S2| R1 S3 | R1 S4 | Row 1

12 R2 S1|______|______|______| Row 2

18 _____|______|______|______| Row 3

24 _____|______|______|______| Row 4

Then I laid out all the squares onto one sheet of "paper" each in Corel Draw (if I had thought ahead, I would have made them bigger, it was a bit of a waste of fabric) and printed them out on fabric. So, it was a total of 16 pages of 6" x 6" photos. After they were printed, I let them dry a half hour, took them off the labels and let them set over night (approx. 24 hrs). Then I hand washed them in woolite, let them dry, ironed them and then cut around the pic leaving a 1/4 inch seam allowance.

Now, a couple of things, I went to our LQS when they had a lecture by Joe Hesch who has a couple of books out for printing on fabric. I did have a question for him but he didn't know how to work around my problem which I solved by wasting fabric, "how I learned that I may want to make my squares either larger or small enough to put more than one on a sheet of fabric".

For the fabric, I bought unbleached muslin, cut that into 9 1/2 x 12 inch sheets. I bought full sheet sized labels. I treated the fabric sheets with Bubble Jet Set 2000 and put them on the labels. I then trimmed them so there were no loose threads and ran each one thru the printer. I did not load more than one at a time just to make sure I didn't waste any more fabric if the printer happened to take more than one sheet. I then did what I stated above as far as drying, hand washing and ironing goes.

Just some general info, when you wash them, make sure that the piece lays flat as you put it in the water, you don't want the pic to fold over or the print will leave a bit of dye on other areas.

I have two printers, Dell Photo 926 and the HP 4180. The Dell prints an amazingly sharp photo on photo paper tho the colors don't seem to be quite true. and the ink FADES horribly on fabric. The HP doesn't print quite as sharp on photo paper but the colors are more accurate and the ink does fade but not hardly at all. I will say the less red you have in anything, the better the picture will be. Red is a horrid color to keep from fading but I bet most of you already know that.

Sorry this was so long, but I hope it helps some of you. If something isn't clear, please ask and I will try to help. Also I may have made some errors in typing but that was cuz the wrong key jumped up and hit my finger.

Donna

Cyra, what a pretty name for such a cute dog!

You are too funny! "... the wrong key jumped up and hit my finger." That happens to me all the time, only I didn't realize it. Whew! Glad it's not me! 8)

Thanks for the instructions!

That's amazing! Way to go!