View From My Window

In Minnesota flowers and trees are starting to bloom.  Going for a walk is enjoyable (not too hot nor too cold) and it is fun discovering new bits of color each day.  From my kitchen window, I can see my flowering tree with pretty pink blossoms.  I admit that I have no clue of the type of tree this is -- but for two weeks each year I am able to enjoy this lovely burst of color.

I began to think about how I could save this view (other than stashing the picture on my iphone with hundreds of other pictures).  

Since I am a quilter, my thoughts turned to how I could incorporate a photo of the tree in a quilt.  I took my phone outside and snapped a photo of my tree along with a few photos of plant life in a couple of neighbor's yards.  (It was about to rain -- so I didn't have much time.)

Here are the pictures.

Photo by Marsha K (from her morning walk)

In this EQ tutorial, I will share how to work with these simple photos to create a windowed photo quilt using Electric Quilt 8.  Techniques include:

• importing multiple photos at once,
• resizing and cropping photos in the image worktable,
• designing a window block to feature the photos,
• creating and populating the quilt layout,
• printing cropped and resized photos to fabric. ​

Here is the final quilt from the video.

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The beauty of this design is each of the cropped pictures can be easily printed on a sheet of EQ Printables (or fabric ironed on freezer paper and run through your printer).  

If you would like to try the manual approach, I have a short video tutorial plus downloadable worksheet on the technique.  This would work for photos in addition to printing words on fabric.

If you have some time, take a few of your own snapshots and create a photo quilt.  I would love to see pictures.  Feel free to share in the Learning EQ Facebook group.  I've set up a post for you to include your designs.

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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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