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Design Ideas & Help Needed

This year, Ohio celebrates it's BiCentennial Anniversary. There was this guy who went around the state and painted the BiCentennial logo on the side of a barn in each county - giving us 88 BiCentennial barns. Some friends of ours traveled the state and took a picture of Every Barn. Well, DH was talking to the wife and she stated she wanted a special way to display the pictures. So, guess what DH did? He told her that I would do a quilt for her and put all 88 pictures in it! Without asking me! The pictures have been delivered and now I'm in the design stage. I think I have settled on using Attic Windows and putting a barn in each one. Now, my dilemma(s) are:

  1. Has anyone used photo transfer process? What kind would you recommend? Any tips?
  2. I'm trying to figure size of blocks - I thought 4X6 for the window with a 2" frame left side and bottom and a 1" sashing between all. Or would you go with 3X5 with 1 1/2" frame and 1" sashing?

I consider myself a novice, but at my last class I was told by the instructor that if you have made one quilt, you are no longer a beginner. So I've barely graduated from the beginner stage. I've made a queen size, a lap size and a paper-pieced miniature and have several other WIP's and UFO's.

Any thoughts or comments on what direction to take would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Cindi

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C Lutz
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sure this is expensive but looks cheaper than 3sheets for $6 :) i like the attic window idea. are all the pix the same size barn? if not can you use them as is and make different sized windows, sorta like a shadow box? you might be able to fit more pix on one sheet that way...so less in the way of left over bits of this photo transfer paper. just would take some time to set the right pix on a page together. ok, now where'd i see that shadow box design online, hang on a sec or three...
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ya go, various size windows, i love the visual interest it gives.have fun and get that dh of yours to help with the entire process. so heknows next time he thinks its a good idea to volunteer you for theseprojects. get him into design, maths, fabric/thread buying, cutting (start on cheap fabric of course), sewing, basting, quilting, binding, label. just so he knows its not as easy or as quick as it all looks, geeeeeeeez, men can be such pita's sometimes. jeanne*

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nzl*

Get the best attic windows pattern you can find. Get several. Try them all. There's more than one way to create the attic windows block and with a project this big, you want to be kind to yourself. I made one. Block. Polly

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Polly Esther

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Sherry Starr

That's a good thought. I'll check with them today. And we have a brand-spanking new LQS just 7 minutes from work. I think I'll go there at lunch and pick their brains. THANKS!

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C Lutz

Thanks, I think I'm going to go with the 'cheater' method. HST to make the miter-look. I thought that would be easier and less time-consuming & headaches in the long run.

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C Lutz

I hav e done the direct method to fabric through the printer and I liked that method really well....maybe enlist DH to do the scan and print part....I did it with Bubble Jet 2000... a little putzy working through the instructions first couple of times but the resulting soft fabric with the pictures is great. Hint: I learned after the fact that you can do a number of sheets and keep them sealed in a ziplock until ready to use. NOW they tell me! I LOVE the attic windows setting, it will be wonderful for this type of project, use 4 x 6 any larger and the quilt will be huge!

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CHARLES MURPHY

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Pat in Virginia

I'll second the suggestion of having the photos printed directly on fabric, much easier to work with than the transfers, and they can be ironed afterwards. If your LQS doesn't print, there are several online sites which offer this service, for example Jeannie Spears at

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