Posted by llrrrpp on August 25, 2006, at 12:50:26
In reply to You'd be surprised... » curtm, posted by Racer on August 25, 2006, at 12:31:09
I think you could do it too, curt. The sewing technique is fairly straightforward. You'd be sewing tiny squares into long rows, and then sewing long rows together to form the main field of quilt. The key is to keep the tiny squares organized so that you sew the rows and field in the right order.
There are computer programs for turning photographs into the pixilated pictures. I'll leave it to your ingenuity to look one up. And if the photographs are of cloth samples, or scanned cloth samples, you could really come up with something cool. It would take a lot of hues and shades of fabric. And a lot of effort to purchase, catalog, and scan all the samples. Personally, I might go completely bonkers with this kind of work, but YOU- yes, you've got the right attitude. Better get doped on coffee though, I estimate it to take at least 100 hours.
Better make it a photograph that has special meaning to you :) so that you don't give up at the point where you've already bought all the stuff, and have put in a lot of the effort of cutting and organizing squares. This is where I usually bail.
-ll
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