Tag: photos on fabric
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Label Your Quilts!
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Honestly, I am the last person in the world who should be lecturing anyone about putting a label on a quilt. Very few of my quilts have them. I am working on changing that fact. One of the things I realized when I put three of the quilts in my…
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Making More Decisions
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My guild has a Wednesday night Zoom meeting each week, just to hang out and work on whatever project we’re working on. I decided that I’d see if I could get more done on the Tracy Arm iceberg quilt. I ended up going to the quilt store beforehand to find…
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When the Weather is Awful…
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…spend the day in the sewing room. However, I did not get done what I had planned. I thought today would be the day I projected the abstract iceberg image up on the wall and figured out what fabrics would go in which spaces. I was completely wrong. Instead, I…
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Printing Photos
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Two of the quilts I’m working on involve images printed on fabric. There are two ways you can do this: either print the image out yourself on your home printer or get a service to do it for you. Both of these have worked for me at different times, so…
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What’s the Process?
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When I was going through the process of building the Horseshoe Bend quilt, I wasn’t quite sure what form this blog would take. So I documented a few things, but not nearly enough to walk anyone through the process of doing it for themselves. Now that I’ve got one quilt…
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Photography
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Over the years, I have naturally been drawn to landscape photography. I can appreciate others’ facility with city photography, or sports photography, or photojournalism, but I do not have those skills. Nor, frankly, do I have the desire to develop them. On a recent vacation with copious opportunities for great…
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Crater Lake
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The second quilt I attempted at the same time as the national parks quilt, in late 2022/early 2023, was born out of a need for some sort of artwork to go above my fireplace in my living room. I don’t ever go out and buy artwork. I have 45,000+ pictures…
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The National Parks Quilt
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I attempted picture quilts #2 and #3 at about the same time. The second one I started was the first one I finished, and vice versa. The national park quilt started with a panel map of the United States with all of the national parks on it, along with miniature…
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Grandma’s Quilt
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In late 2014, my aunt was planning to have surgery early the next year. Because Grandma lived with my aunt and uncle, Grandma was going to have to spend a few weeks in a nursing home while my aunt recovered. At 98, Grandma was still pretty spry, and she was…
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Background on the Current Project
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I’ve been interested in photography for a long time. I took art photography classes in high school and learned to develop my own black and white film (dating myself a bit, here!) and use darkroom techniques to get the images I wanted. When I joined the Peace Corps in 1998,…