Photo Block?

[kensington]

What do you think is the best and or easiest method to transfer a photo to fabric for a quilt block?

[snippet]

Re: Photo Block?

Best and Easiest - send your photo to spoonflower.com

there is a good article on printing photos at http://blog.spoonflower.com/2009/12/...tos-on-fabric/

I've sent a jpg to them and it was simple and easy. didn't take long either.

[SisterDi]

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The best quality I got from buying good white fabric at my LQS, loading pics onto a thumb drive, and taking it all to a print shop on the next block. Worst quality was printed from low res scanned photos, and printed on the 8.5" x 11" sheets they sell at Joann for the home printer.

Neither was easy or inexpensive. I love the concept of a photo quilt, but it hasn't been a great experience for me. Especially the "how do I quilt this now?" part. I may check out spoonflower next time...if there is a next time.

[kensington]

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I'm only doing one photo to fabric to hand stitch on the back of a quilt I am giving as a Christmas gift. Thanks! I'll check out spoonflower!

[Sylvia H]

Re: Photo Block?

I'm only doing one photo to fabric to hand stitch on the back of a quilt I am giving as a Christmas gift. Thanks! I'll check out spoonflower!

Spoonflower is definitely the way to go if it is only one picture. It is quick and easy, seems foolproof, and inexpensive.

[Vonnie]

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I vote for spoon flower also. Remember, you can add your label to it also.

[JCY]

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I've never used Spoonflower. You can use the fabric sheets & print your own pics from a Word doc. you make on your computer. Each fabric sheet is ~$1.00 each. They're avail. from Amazon. I saw a quilt with photos at a trunk show at a quilt show one time. I use the fabric sheets all the time for my quilt labels. I personally have not tried to do the photos yet.

[sewmuch2learn]

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I used Bubble Jet Set (Amazon) because I have a jet-ink printer. Soak the fabric in it, hang to dry, iron freezer paper on it, and run it through the printer. I have a very low-end ($45) printer and the pics turned out great.

[kensington]

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Thanks for the idea.... my printer only prints black and white. I have a small photo printer for scrapbooking, but it only prints 3x5 or 4x6. I have to use a service. I did go on Spoonflower, but could not navigate the site... I couldn't find where to click to send a photo and order the fabric print... they seemed to want me to buy their stuff or design something.

I am going to have my son take a peek and tell me what to do. He will see it in a flash.

[snippet]

Re: Photo Block?

at Spoonflower, go to the design fabric area. Hope that helps.

[amartin24]

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I've used the freezer paper/fabric method to print labels which is easy and they turn out great. http://thegraphicsfairy.com/print-fa...aper-method-2/ If you read the article though, different inks for printers work better than others. I haven't tried actual photos though. For something special like a photo, I would do as others have suggested and use Spoonflower.