Truck grill for landscape quilt

Can you take a picture of the grill, scan it and run it through the printer onto a piece of fabric. Gen

If it were me doing it, I'd find fabric in the color I wanted, decide if you want a solid, marble or texture or any kind, and add the detail in with how I quilted it, or with fabric paint later.

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There is a fabric referred to as quilter's lame' which is made of cotton, comes in silver and many other colors and is quite easy to use. It will give you a somewhat shiny chrome-like appearance for the grill. I'd sketch it out and applique the silver lame' with a fusable product to save having to turn the edges under. (Be sure to do a test piece to check if the heat for the fusible is okay with the lame'.) Always remember, it doesn't have to be an exact replica- it just needs to bring to mind an image of a truck grill.

Leslie & The Furbabies > Hi! I'm designing a small wall hanging quilt that I'm calling a

There is also a silver "Fairy Frost" fabric that I think makes a good metallic look. KJ

I know nothing about trucks - and there isn't one outside that I can see right now :-)

I was thinking vertical bars: those you could maybe do by couching on some fat silver threads?

Hanne > Thanks for the suggestion, Gen. I was thinking more like "basket

You could always use ribbon that is an appropriate size and weave it to look like the grill. There are all sorts of silver ribbons on the market now and you wouldn't have to worry about edged raveling or anything like that :-). You could weave it, anchor the ends (in fabric seams or just by turning under a bit and stitching them down) and then tack the intersections down to keep them in place. Good Luck, keep us posted n progress & CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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