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Printing my own fabrics.
I saw a program on the telly the other week and the quilt lady used her own
fabrics to make her Kaelidascope quilts. I thought I could do this as I love to dabble in Graphics. I made my own "Fractal images" and imported them into Photoshop and then used a small free plugin to Kaelidascope the images. Increased the "contrast" and the " saturation " amounts then copied them to a new Image with a 600 dpi (thats so when they are printed the colours come out better) I used the Bubble Jet Set on a white quilters muslin and did what you are meant to do then printed them out. I found from previous experience that using the muslin makes for a floppier fabric in the end.Other fabrics that I have printed on have come out too stiff. WOW ! now all I have to do is work out what colours and styles to do the sashings and I have my very " own " quilt. Designed and made by me, all me. The images I came up with are here if anyone wants to see. http://community.webshots.com/user/char304 One day in the near future I may get to sew for the day then I can start on it. |
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Wendy, That is amazing and inspiring. Can' wait to see the quilt.
Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/moondancewa |
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"Wendys" wrote in message
... I saw a program on the telly the other week and the quilt lady used her own fabrics to make her Kaelidascope quilts. I thought I could do this as I love to dabble in Graphics. I made my own "Fractal images" and imported them into Photoshop and then used a small free plugin to Kaelidascope the images. Increased the "contrast" and the " saturation " amounts then copied them to a new Image with a 600 dpi (thats so when they are printed the colours come out better) I used the Bubble Jet Set on a white quilters muslin and did what you are meant to do then printed them out. I found from previous experience that using the muslin makes for a floppier fabric in the end.Other fabrics that I have printed on have come out too stiff. WOW ! now all I have to do is work out what colours and styles to do the sashings and I have my very " own " quilt. Designed and made by me, all me. The images I came up with are here if anyone wants to see. http://community.webshots.com/user/char304 One day in the near future I may get to sew for the day then I can start on it. Wow! is right. I am soooo impressed. Have already copied the post into my 'quilt stuff' folder for instructions if I ever get so ambitious. |
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Fantastic - making your own fabric! Beautiful patterns.
How wonderful. My DH is a big fan of Mandelbrot. So, if I learned how to do the printing, perhaps I could venture into this special world? What a thought. Just wait till I have my current list whittled down a bit ...! .. In message , Wendys writes I saw a program on the telly the other week and the quilt lady used her own fabrics to make her Kaelidascope quilts. I thought I could do this as I love to dabble in Graphics. I made my own "Fractal images" and imported them into Photoshop and then used a small free plugin to Kaelidascope the images. Increased the "contrast" and the " saturation " amounts then copied them to a new Image with a 600 dpi (thats so when they are printed the colours come out better) I used the Bubble Jet Set on a white quilters muslin and did what you are meant to do then printed them out. I found from previous experience that using the muslin makes for a floppier fabric in the end.Other fabrics that I have printed on have come out too stiff. WOW ! now all I have to do is work out what colours and styles to do the sashings and I have my very " own " quilt. Designed and made by me, all me. The images I came up with are here if anyone wants to see. http://community.webshots.com/user/char304 One day in the near future I may get to sew for the day then I can start on it. -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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Those are gorgeous!!
-- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948 "Wendys" wrote in message ... : I saw a program on the telly the other week and the quilt lady used her own : fabrics to make her Kaelidascope quilts. : I thought I could do this as I love to dabble in Graphics. : I made my own "Fractal images" and imported them into Photoshop and then : used a small free plugin to Kaelidascope the images. Increased the : "contrast" and the " saturation " amounts then copied them to a new Image : with a 600 dpi (thats so when they are printed the colours come out better) : I used the Bubble Jet Set on a white quilters muslin and did what you are : meant to do then printed them out. I found from previous experience that : using the muslin makes for a floppier fabric in the end.Other fabrics that I : have printed on have come out too stiff. : WOW ! now all I have to do is work out what colours and styles to do the : sashings and I have my very " own " quilt. Designed and made by me, all me. : The images I came up with are here if anyone wants to see. : http://community.webshots.com/user/char304 : One day in the near future I may get to sew for the day then I can start on : it. : : |
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It sounded like the Fourth of July here while viewing a slide show of your
fabric designs: Ooooh, Ahhhhh. Spectacular. Good to know that you get softer fabric when you do it yourself. I just bought the ink jet solution and some fabric to try out. Now I want fractal software! Susan aka Betsy Ross |
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Wendys wrote: I saw a program on the telly the other week and the quilt lady used her own fabrics to make her Kaelidascope quilts. I thought I could do this as I love to dabble in Graphics. I made my own "Fractal images" and imported them into Photoshop and then used a small free plugin to Kaelidascope the images. Increased the "contrast" and the " saturation " amounts then copied them to a new Image with a 600 dpi (thats so when they are printed the colours come out better) I used the Bubble Jet Set on a white quilters muslin and did what you are meant to do then printed them out. I found from previous experience that using the muslin makes for a floppier fabric in the end.Other fabrics that I have printed on have come out too stiff. WOW ! now all I have to do is work out what colours and styles to do the sashings and I have my very " own " quilt. Designed and made by me, all me. The images I came up with are here if anyone wants to see. http://community.webshots.com/user/char304 One day in the near future I may get to sew for the day then I can start on it. very cool!. I love fractal images. Did you make the fractal images in a vector program? Like Illustrator or coreldraw? I would love to have a link to the free plug in. Mary Ann |
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The free program (for 15 days I think) from www.Whizical.com is fun!
Actually there are two of them...Kaleider and Liquib make some great images from your pictures. "pajaritaflora" wrote in message ups.com... Wendys wrote: I saw a program on the telly the other week and the quilt lady used her own fabrics to make her Kaelidascope quilts. I thought I could do this as I love to dabble in Graphics. I made my own "Fractal images" and imported them into Photoshop and then used a small free plugin to Kaelidascope the images. Increased the "contrast" and the " saturation " amounts then copied them to a new Image with a 600 dpi (thats so when they are printed the colours come out better) I used the Bubble Jet Set on a white quilters muslin and did what you are meant to do then printed them out. I found from previous experience that using the muslin makes for a floppier fabric in the end.Other fabrics that I have printed on have come out too stiff. WOW ! now all I have to do is work out what colours and styles to do the sashings and I have my very " own " quilt. Designed and made by me, all me. The images I came up with are here if anyone wants to see. http://community.webshots.com/user/char304 One day in the near future I may get to sew for the day then I can start on it. very cool!. I love fractal images. Did you make the fractal images in a vector program? Like Illustrator or coreldraw? I would love to have a link to the free plug in. Mary Ann |
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I have a question about printing on fabric. Before I bought the Bubble Jet
rinse I bought some of that precut/pretreated fabric by June Taylor at Hancocks. Terribly expensive for a few sheets. I was pleased with how well it fed thru the printer and the outcome was really great - other than being thick and stiff. I heat set it like the directions tell you to do but a drop of water got on it while I was working with it and it created a blotch. I'm really upset because I thought this would be as good as advertised. Has anyone else had this kind of problem? Did I do something wrong. I'm looking at a whole quilt of photographs and I sure don't want this to happen again. -- http://community.webshots.com/user/snigdibbly SNIGDIBBLY ~e~ " / \ http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/snigdibbly. http://www.ebaystores.com/snigdibbly...ox&refid=store "Wendys" wrote in message ... I saw a program on the telly the other week and the quilt lady used her own fabrics to make her Kaelidascope quilts. I thought I could do this as I love to dabble in Graphics. I made my own "Fractal images" and imported them into Photoshop and then used a small free plugin to Kaelidascope the images. Increased the "contrast" and the " saturation " amounts then copied them to a new Image with a 600 dpi (thats so when they are printed the colours come out better) I used the Bubble Jet Set on a white quilters muslin and did what you are meant to do then printed them out. I found from previous experience that using the muslin makes for a floppier fabric in the end.Other fabrics that I have printed on have come out too stiff. WOW ! now all I have to do is work out what colours and styles to do the sashings and I have my very " own " quilt. Designed and made by me, all me. The images I came up with are here if anyone wants to see. http://community.webshots.com/user/char304 One day in the near future I may get to sew for the day then I can start on it. |
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absolutely scrumptious
-- http://community.webshots.com/user/snigdibbly SNIGDIBBLY ~e~ " / \ http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/snigdibbly. http://www.ebaystores.com/snigdibbly...ox&refid=store "Wendys" wrote in message ... I saw a program on the telly the other week and the quilt lady used her own fabrics to make her Kaelidascope quilts. I thought I could do this as I love to dabble in Graphics. I made my own "Fractal images" and imported them into Photoshop and then used a small free plugin to Kaelidascope the images. Increased the "contrast" and the " saturation " amounts then copied them to a new Image with a 600 dpi (thats so when they are printed the colours come out better) I used the Bubble Jet Set on a white quilters muslin and did what you are meant to do then printed them out. I found from previous experience that using the muslin makes for a floppier fabric in the end.Other fabrics that I have printed on have come out too stiff. WOW ! now all I have to do is work out what colours and styles to do the sashings and I have my very " own " quilt. Designed and made by me, all me. The images I came up with are here if anyone wants to see. http://community.webshots.com/user/char304 One day in the near future I may get to sew for the day then I can start on it. |
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