Making Photo Memory Quilts Dallas TX

Making a photo memory quilt is a wonderful way to honor a graduate, remember a loved one, or commemorate a special occasion. Photo memory quilts are really quite simple to make if you have some modest sewing skills.

1. Choose your photos. You will get the best results if you use photos that have been uploaded to your computer from a digital camera. However, if you have a high-quality scanner, you can scan in photos from traditional cameras with good results, also. Your photos should have a common theme. If the quilt is for a graduate, you might include a picture of her from each year since birth. A grandparent would love a quilt that included photos of each grandchild. If the quilt is to honor the memory of a loved one who has passed away, you might include photos of him, as well as use fabric from some of his shirts.
   
   
2. Upload the photos to your computer. Using either a scanner or a digital camera connected with a USB cable, transfer the photos to a file on your computer. Be sure to save the pictures in a file that is easy to find!
   
   
3. Enhance and resize the photos if necessary. There are lots of software program designed for this purpose. Three good ones are Microsoft Photo Editor, Corel Photo Album and Paint Shop Pro. You may want to enhance the color in your photos so that they will be more vivid when transferred to fabric. You can also correct red-eye, crop pictures to eliminate excess background and even remove signs of damage, such as wrinkles or tears. You will need to resize your photos so that they're all the same size when you print them onto your fabric. Try to keep each photograph about the same resolution if possible, so that ones with lower-resolution don't look grainy when placed next to higher-resolution photos in your quilt.
   
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Author: Tonya Sandersfeld