Electric Quilt tutorial: From photos to fabric to quilts
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If you've ever wondered how quilters got photos onto the fabric in their quilts, wonder no more. Let me show you how simple it is using readily available materials, Electric Quilt and your computer. In the detail at left, I used pictures placed inside a heart shaped frame and then printed the photos to use in the Healing Hearts quilt I'll show you how to get the photo into your computer, how to get the picture into Electric Quilt, how to print photos onto fabric that is then ready to be us...

Teddy's puppy love quilt
Teddy, beloved Rottweiller 2000-2002
Theodore Edward Bear came to live with me when he was six weeks old. As he grew up, I decided to make a quilt about him, using photographs of him in the back yard. Little did I know that someone would poison him and I would need the quilt as a memory.

Photos, patchwork, and scrapbooking = cute quilts
Have you lots and lots photos?
Are scrapbooking and patchwork two of your hobbies? Combine the two into one, and make cute little scrapbook style quilts to keep, or to give as gifts to someone really special. Love to include them in your quilts? My late second husband took hundreds of great landscape pictures of our wonderful Australian outback, coastline and rainforests. He also had a knack of getting good candid shots of our children and grandchildren. I decided to use several photos to make little quilts, scrapbook pa...