Friday, 19 March 2010

Photos on quilts

This year my challenge group's theme is 'Flora'. Each meeting will be a challenge to try a new technique and make something with it. I have decided to make a seies of small quilts representing different times of the year, which I can hang in my kitchen. The first task was to print some photos onto fabric and use them in some way. I have printed photos before, but have never been really successful at incorporating them into quilts.


I decided to print some pictures of crocuses which I found on the internet. Some were purple and some yellow.
They were different sizes, but I managed to get them to play together quite well by bordering the purple ones with yellow and the yellow ones with purple.

Then sashing it all with green.

A piano keys border of yellow and purple, some lilac binding and here it is on my kitchen wall! Very suitable for this time of year!
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6 comments:

  1. Contented Caroline19 March 2010 at 17:41

    Looks lovely and cheerful Lynda - what medium did you use for printing? I need to have a go at this.

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  2. loulee19 March 2010 at 18:05

    That is perfect, says spring beautifully. Now if only Spring would actually arrive.

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  3. black bear cabin19 March 2010 at 19:43

    im with loulee...if only spring would arrive...we are watching it snow right now :)
    But your quilt is lovely and colorful...and helps me dream of spring!

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  4. chris20 March 2010 at 07:27

    Fabulous quilt Lynda - i'm glad that you like what you made with the technique. I'm all sorted for the next challenge, just waiting for school to break up so i can get some time.

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  5. Barb22 March 2010 at 12:58

    Lovely -
    very sweet and spring like, which we can all use around here!
    congratulations on a lovely new quilt -

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  6. Sew Create It - Jane24 March 2010 at 19:33

    Looks great! Still trying to get my head around the next technique...look forward to seeing what you come up with.

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