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Quilting Carolyn 09-24-2008 03:04 PM

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Here are two of the enlarged quilted portraits that we have done. Gabriel's photo was snapped by her grandmother and it was so beautiful that we enlarged it. It is machine quilted. The face and hair have a sculpted look wit its quilting while there is a kind of meandering all around her.
The portrait of my brother-in-law, Jerry, was done to honor him for the Memorial Day parade. There was a float honoring Vietname Vets and since he is no longer with us, this portrait went along with the rest of the area Vets.

Gabriell's quilted portrait-36"x42"
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Brother-in-law, Jerry quilted portrait-36x42
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beachlady 09-24-2008 03:13 PM

Those are so nice and different. Great job!!!

Kyiav10 09-24-2008 03:20 PM

WOW! Beautiful! How was it done with the seam allowances??

Kyia

sewnsewer2 09-24-2008 04:59 PM

What awesome quilts!!

gcathie 09-24-2008 05:00 PM

really cute!!

Marcia 09-24-2008 07:58 PM

Great job-those are really neat.

Celeste 09-25-2008 02:04 AM


Originally Posted by Quilting Carolyn
The portrait of my brother-in-law, Jerry, was done to honor him for the Memorial Day parade. There was a float honoring Vietname Vets and since he is no longer with us, this portrait went along with the rest of the area Vets.

What a fabulous way to represent him!

Both quilts are a wonder.

reneebobby 09-25-2008 02:32 AM

WOw how nice are those.

HMK 09-25-2008 07:19 AM

They are lovely but I'm confused as to how they are done.

henryparrish76 09-25-2008 07:41 AM

Very Nice

Quilt4u 09-25-2008 08:37 AM

Verrrrrry nicccccccccce.

Lynne 09-25-2008 08:39 AM

How do you do that? That is AWESOME!!!

Lynne

Bevanger 09-25-2008 10:52 AM

what a cool idea,, thanks for sharing

Carol W 09-27-2008 04:46 AM

Those are so nice!!

sandpat 09-27-2008 04:57 AM

Those are fantastic! Did you do the blow up and then photo transfer??

Quilting Carolyn 09-27-2008 06:22 AM

yes, these are processed through our software to the size we want then printed. We make all corrections or changes we want, color adjustment, background change. cutting out what is not wanted or needed. Thanks for looking

HMK 09-27-2008 06:55 AM

May I ask what software package you use to do this?

justquiltin' 09-27-2008 08:27 AM

Those are both quite impressive.

rein 09-27-2008 08:54 AM

Very nice indeed. Thanks for sharing such wonderful items.

Quilting Carolyn 09-27-2008 12:36 PM

actually it is one that is rather old but I am so used toit I hate to change and have tolearn another. It is LivePix. I don't know if it is still available but any photo editing software should be able to do these. I just don't like to change when I get used something. I put in the size I want to print in the custom size brackett slot. There are 20 to 25 photo sheets in these. They could go larger if wanted and they take a lot of ink.

GailG 09-27-2008 12:48 PM

Gorgeous portraits !! What a treasure ! Boggles my mind. I thought I had done something really special when I did 5 x 7s. :oops:

sewjoyce 10-01-2008 11:24 AM

Wow -- those are absolutely stunning :!:

lgeorge 10-06-2008 05:36 AM

There are no words for these. Absolutely breath taking. How are the pictures done on these? I have a sister who has a son in the Army and I would love to do one for her. Where do I find out how to do this? Thx for sharing.

kd124 10-06-2008 10:53 PM

Awesome!!!

chairjogger 10-07-2008 12:13 AM

ouch, makes me cry.. the first one.. lots of our dads are not with us around the time of the first picture.

Both are wonderful. spent more time looking at little girl.. so precious.

Thanks for sharing !

GailG 10-07-2008 02:43 AM

You gals with the great computer savvy can do it at home. I'm a duck, so I brought muslin to our local print shop and told her what I wanted to do. She printed my snapshots (enlarged some of them) giving me plenty of space for seams etc.

Diane007 10-16-2012 03:07 PM

very creative

gigi4419 10-16-2012 03:52 PM

Great job!

littlebitoheaven 03-10-2013 12:07 PM

These are stunning. Such wonderful works of art. You inspire me to try this too. May I ask, "Did you use purchased fabric printing sheets or did you treat your own fabric." I am awestruck. They are so perfect. If only I could..... Yolanda Wood River

QM 03-10-2013 12:12 PM

marvelous work


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