A few quick stitches

We went to the Seattle area Highland games over the weekend. While there I picked up a little cross stitch project. So far only got the header done. Next up the Hairy Cow.

The Insane Person's Photo Quilt

I was trying to find picture of a quilt that I'm nearly done with the binding one, but the pictures seemed to have disappeared. While hunting for the missing pictures I came across pictures I had for a different quilt that is long since been completed. But since I had not shared pictures of it yet I figured it was high time... A show of good faith that I am in fact going to write about my stuff.

So it all started long ago what I came across a really cool quilt pattern called Hunting Grounds by Gathering Friends:
I the crazy person that I am decided that this would make the coolest photo quilt ever! One would have though that once I got the pattern and found out the lovely little strips at the top and bottom were from a panel I would haven't given up... no instead I sat spent a few late night diligently constructing the quilt using photo shop.

I first had to find a useful ratio for the strip photos. This is what I came up with:
If you noticed my version has 12 spots instead of the 10 in the original pattern. This is because if I were to crop my pictures to the ratio to make a 10 all my pictures would look really really weird since most of my pictures start life as vertical pictures and not horizontal ones.

From there I added my pictures and played around with there placement. Actually in all fairness I printed off thumbnail size version of all the pictures I considered using and played with them on a table for a while, and then tested them in photo shop. Thus coming up with this:
And then I gather "swatches" on-line of various fabric lines that I like that were aviable at the time. I ended up settling on the Kansas Troubles fabric. After another late night playing wiht photoshop we had something like this:
Happy with the result I went fabric hunting. The local quilt shop was running very low on Kansas Troubles since they were using it for their block of the month kits, but I manage to squeek by.
Cutting and peice wen relatively quickly. Well there was the matter of getting the photos onto fabric, but I just used some my inkjet printer and some fabric paper from Joanns... it wasn't from the quilting department... it was some generic type that i liked.









I do have to say that there were a great many 3/4" strips used to get the 1/4" borders and those got rather tedious after awhile. However like I said it peiced together quiltky to form a HUGE quilt:

we now return you to your regular postings...

Believe it or not we have a new entry!

Things has been a whirlwind:

Mr. Mac returned from a year long deployment.
I graduated from college.
We drove across country to get to Mr. Mac new duty station.

We are still up to our chins in boxes but I'm able to make a little bit more progress on a few of the projects that have manage to surface.

Stay tune for the upcoming fun!