Who Else Wants to Make Memories by Creating Family Heirlooms Using Actual Photos?

Creating A Memory

A few years ago, the superintendent of the school district I work for announced that he would retire. He had been with the district almost 40 years, and had taught and been a principal at several schools.

A group of us decided to make a memory quilt for his retirement – creating a schoolhouse block representing each school in the district, and blocks representing the district office and bus garage. We also decided that it would be fun to put a picture of the school marquee in each block.

Not being fans of detailed appliqué, we decided to use clip art, then print the picture of each marquee on fabric, and appliqué a simple square onto each school block. fabric photo for memory quilt

All went so well that we decided to extend the fabric printing to create fabric photos of the superintendent – transferring pictures from old school yearbooks onto the fabric – and placing them in the window of the schoolhouse block where he either taught or was a principal.

The quilt was fantastic! It circled the district for employees, parents, and students to sign. He was very pleased when it was presented to him at his retirement party.

You can do this, too!

With Fathers’ Day, graduations, and summer weddings imminent, you can give someone the promise of a special quilt, letting them choose the pictures to include in the quilt.

Your family and friends will love you for your creativity and thoughtfulness.

Make a family tree quilt – with photos of family members on the branches
Transfer your favorite vacation pictures to fabric and surround them with blocks or borders that remind you of the great time you had
Transfer a picture of newly-weds and create a double wedding ring quilt for a first anniversary present
Make a fun quilt with pictures of your favorite pet sprinkled all around
Create a year-end present for a teacher or club leader with pictures of each person in the class or group

What gift could be better than that? How very personal and original. Something your family and friends will treasure for the rest of their lives, and will share with their family and friends.

Oh how I wish we had the book Photo Fun before we made the quilt for the superintendent!

Disappointment set in when we realized that (after the quilt was completed) that all of the clip art and photos printed on fabric would wash away if the fabric got wet!

And I didn’t tell you how many times we had to run pieces of fabric through the printer in order to get one good copy. Using tape to hold the fabric on the paper, sometimes the fabric or tape would jam in the printer. Other times the fabric would stretch one way or the other resulting in a cockeyed picture. Oh, the time and fabric we wasted!

Save yourself time, money and aggravation by owning this book!

With Photo Fun, you will know the very best methods for transferring your photos to fabric. You won’t waste time and fabric experimenting.

Photo Fun is a complete step-by-step guide that walks you through the entire process. You can print your photos to use as squares in a block or for other craft projects. Nothing is left out. This book teaches you how to:

Resize, repeat, or reflect your photos
Add, remove, or change colors
Make kaleidoscopes, tiled images, and mosaics
Add texture and stitching
Make unique fabric with painterly effects by using 3-D objects (you’ll find out what all of that means in the book!)

Create extraordinary images on fabric….

…using any brand of inkjet printer or scanner. You will find easy-to-learn photo effects to jazz up your quilts as well as other crafts.

Cyndy Lyle Rymer and Lynn Koolish are longtime quilters and editors at C&T Publishing. She has also appeared on HGTV’s Simply Quilts. Cyndy and Lynn have worked with the experts at Hewlett-Packard, a leading global provider of high-tech products, including computers, printers and scanners. Together these experts provide all of their know-how written in the www.How-To-Quilt.com step-by-step manner that makes everything easy to understand.

Can you believe how many new books are coming out, and how many websites offering services in transferring photos to fabric are springing up? Transferring photos to fabric has become an extremely popular technique. With all of the resources available, how do you know which to choose? With More Photo Fun, you can be confident that you are getting the best information from the experts – those with the latest technology and the latest quilting ideas and techniques – written in an easy-to-understand way. Using the information in this book, you will feel like an experienced quilter on your very first photo project!

By now, you know that Photo Fun, is the right resource for the greatest trend in quilting. All you need to know is how to order.

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