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View From My Window

5/8/2021

 
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).  
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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.
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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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Carla
5/12/2021 09:12:24 am

Great tutorial, thanks! This sounds like fun and definitely challenging. Hope to give it a try!


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