Want to turn pictures into swquares 6" or 8"

Can anyone please tell me how to do this, I want to make a rag quilt. Lets say with the picture of a Car, I want to turn the car into squares, making my quilt lets say 8 squares across by 9 squares high. Having the car in the centre of the quilt. I hope I am saying this right, but I have never done anything like this before. Any help would be appreciated. Tania

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took me a sec to work out what you meant but i think i understand it. i'd mark it out on paper first, so you know how many and which sqs you want as the car and anything else you fancy having on there. have you done a rag quilt before? nor have i but iirc the seams are bigger for the ragginess (new word? probly not) so figure size of finished sq plus

2 bigger seams, maybe 3/8 inch or 1/2 inch? somone will let us know soon. you can also piece sqs to give other things on there, clouds, trees, road signs. the pieced bits can be plain or raggy too iirc. sketching will help you figure out what you want to do with this and ideas will start popping up left right and centre i'm sure. have you googled it yet? j.

"Tania" wrote... Can anyone please tell me how to do this, I want to make a rag quilt. Lets say with the picture of a Car, I want to turn the car into squares, making my quilt lets say 8 squares across by 9 squares high. Having the car in the centre of the quilt. I hope I am saying this right, but I have never done anything like this before. Any help would be appreciated. Tania

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Did you ever do counted cross stitch embroidery? It seems to me that one could use a SIMPLE cross stitch chart to make a quilt as I understand you want. (Ragged or regular wouldn't matter.) So, go to the county library and find a few books of EASY cross stitch patterns and you may find a car to copy. Clear as mud? Pat in VA/USA

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When I did this for my sons castle quilt I drew it on graph paper. Each square on the graph paper was a square in my quilt. I am not very good at designing things but this worked out very well for me. I did the the sun as well with hst and it simulated the round appearance as one would have on a car. I do have a pic of that quilt up on my webshots site... I think the user name is elywyn. Still reorganizing after the move lol Anyhow NTN :)

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