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Mosaic Picture Quilts: Turn Favorite Photos Into Stunning Quilts

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The art of tuning your favorite photo into a quilt has become quite popular over the last year or so. MOSAIC PICTURE QUILTS is all about doing this.

Ms. Durbin provides nicely detailed directions on how to get your photo from paper to the quilt. By using a 1" fusible foundation and 1 1/4" fabric squares, you are able to create the graduated colors that a photo shows. But wait, it is easier than you would think because there are no turned under edges. Everything is done in "raw form". The secret is an overlay of tulle fabric! By using this overlay, you can even incorporate 3-D embellishments such as rocks, dried flowers or twigs to add extra punch to the quilt.

These will be beautiful wall hangings but are not something you will make in a weekend. With over 500 pieces in her smallest project to 1200 pieces in her largest, it will take many hours just to cut the fabric. Each project has the photo and the finished quilt shown. Size, number of pieces and skill level are given at the very start of the project so you will know which one you want to do. A materials and cutting list are provided and instructions on building and embellishing and finishing are also given.

Ms. Durbin provides photomaps and transparency forms so you can create these or your own. A four page gallery of quilts she has done show just how detailed these quilts really are. If you have always dreamed of turning your favorite photo into a fabric keepsake, this book will walk you through just how to do it.

MOSAIC PICTURE QUILTS: TURN FAVORITE PHOTOS INTO STUNNING QUILTS is a top pick for any who would learn a square-by-square technique for transforming photos of landscapes, people or flowers into a patchwork production. Print the photo onto paper, use at transparent grid to lay out fabrics, then use raw-edge patchwork for easy sewing with a guide highly recommended for any collection catering to quilters or sewers.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

This is what I was looking for! I whant to put some of my nature photos into quilts.

I don't care for quilts on walls. Other people have them and love them, but I like practical art, bed quilts. I have no use, for instance, for those collectible cute teapots that cannot be used for tea. Not my cuppa. I got this for inspiration and tips for watercolor type quilts. It provides excellent instruction for reproducing landscape quilts but in a method that would be impractical for a bed quilt, only good for art quilts. For instance, using this method you can embed real leaves, sticks, shells, into the scene. Can't imagine that making it through the washer. Also employs impractical fabrics for such practical use as I intended. Great for art quilts, wall hangings; not helpful for bedquilts.