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From Picture to Pattern

From Picture to Pattern

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There is so much more to making a pattern than simply sketching or tracing an outline from a photo. The bottom line is that your pattern will determine the final look of your pet portrait so it is well worth the time to learn how to make a great pattern.

Learn how it’s done in Anne’s online course and from there, you will be ready to make a fabric collage portrait that you will cherish. When you’re finished, you will have a unique pattern, a foundation/placement guide for assembling your fabric collage, and a value guide to help you choose fabrics for the portrait.

The lessons consist of photos, clear written instructions, videos and downloadable pdf files.

Individual coaching is included. Just enter your question in the lesson’s comments box or email me and I’ll answer it as you work through the course.

After purchasing the course, it’s yours! Access it whenever you want for as long as you want. It doesn’t expire.

From photo to pattern to quilted portrait.

I signed up for Anne’s Pet Portrait course with the mindset that it would take me a few attempts before I’d be happy with the results – but wow was I ever pleased with the first attempt. My first pet portrait will also be my first quilt that I put into a quilt show. I’ve expanding the scope of my quilting because the techniques I learned from Anne.

Sylvia

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All Together Now…Altogether Now

All Together Now…Altogether Now

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The quilted pet portrait of Tinkerbelle is coming together at last. I’ve been describing this technique of transforming a photo of your pet into a quilted pet portrait in the last couple of posts. Today’s post is all about bringing a lot of little bitty fabric pieces together.

After fussy cutting out 85 pieces from 9 different fabrics, I started placing and fusing them onto a base I had cut out of fusible non-woven stabilizer. To be honest, this was a real challenge. Here’s the deal: many pieces had edges that had to be tucked under AND edges that had to go over the adjacent shapes. There were basically a lot of interlocking pieces. Read on to find out how this all came together.Belle’s quilted pet portrait

Step 9

So how did I bring all these pieces together? First, I spent time studying the original photo to observe depth of field — what parts are closer and which ones are further away? Then I did a dry run with all the major shapes to see how this interlocking would work. I made lots of mental notes and then I cleared the deck, making sure the keep the shapes together in numbered groups. I pinned the transparent master to my portable working surface, slipped the base underneath and one by one, removed the paper backing and placed the shapes in their final resting place.

Here’s the forehead region.  All those little arrows marking the ‘unders’ and ‘overs’  really come into play here as they tell me which edges to place underneath the others. Some of those pieces are small! I use tweezers to move them into place.

Quilted pet portrait

As I positioned each piece, I used a light touch with the iron to tack it to the base and avoided touching the edges that had to remain free to allow the next shape to tuck underneath. Here’s how she looks under the transparency when all the shapes are in place.

Quilted pet portrait

At this point, I need to look at her with a critical eye to decide if I really achieved the right values in the right place. I can see there are a few subtle adjustments to make however the construction is completed. I’m off to the fabric store now to find a background that will really make this portrait pop. Next up will be a post all about colour and focal points.

If you’ve read this far, thanks for reading my blog!