Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero - Printing On Fabric Lessons

[jeaniesa]

Oh wow! What an awesome memory quilt! Thank you so much for sharing.
Jeanie

[jeaniesa]

One of the photos on the African quilt has to be explained. It shows up fairly well in the picture I posted. There is a man sitting out in the field at a market, and he's at a treadle machine. He will do sewing "to order while you wait," right out there in the field with his treadle! Naturally that photo just HAD to be included in the quilt!!!

[Margo]

WOW!! Carole, thanks for pointing that out!!

[Margo]

Great job, Carole!

[kfstitcher]

That's a wonderful way to put the pictures in your quilt. I really like it.

[kfstitcher]

I just updated my entry to show the finished Africa quilt. I put a zebra print border and binding on it. I did a little stitch-in-the ditch, but it's mostly free-motion quilted.

The quilting doesn't show up too well, however. There are vines/leaves/tendrils on the prints, swirls in the black, loose meandering on the photos, and some quilting similar to the zebra print on the borders.

[Margo]

Looks great, Carole! And I love the photo with the sewing machine! Thanks for pointing it out to us!

[she-quilts]

Jenny, I did a quick video tutorial a few years ago showing how to to this in Photoshop Elements 4. It should still be the same for later versions. http://www.kaleidoscopecollections.c.../poster-print/ Hope this helps.
Jeanie

I have a custom quilt to make and the client wants the family photo in the center printed about 18 x 20. I am going bald (not really, but stressed :shock: ) over how to make the poster idea print. I KNEW that you, Jeanie, would have the answer!! After not finding help with PS, I came here. YOU did it!! With this tutorial, you just walked me through it all!!

With the photo she sent me, it ends up being 13 x 20" but I will work with that with adding extra fabric around the edge. I'M SO EXCITED YOU SAVED MY DAY & WEEK!!!

Now, I print all these pieces (I have 6 segments) by arranging them on the page as you did in the Printing on Fabric lesson, right? The bottom segments are only 8 x 4 so I assume I can get 2 of them on one page as you did the corner photos for the pillow. {Later (as I struggled to get this to post), I'm thinking that I'll try making my box to crop 10 x 8 instead of 8 x 10 and maybe it will save some pages. :?: }

I've always thought your work (love Kaleidescope CD!! ) is FANTASTIC and I just think you are wonderful! Have loved your lessons here and meeting you at shows (Paducah 2010). Today... you are my QUEEN!

[jeaniesa]

Hi Joyce, I'm so glad that my poster print video helped! You guessed correctly - now that you have all of the pieces, you can arrange them on the page like I mentioned in the Printing on Fabric series. Truth be told, you don't actually have to do that for the 8x10 or 10x8 pieces - they are pretty much a single sheet of fabric anyway, so you can just use the print feature in Photoshop Elements. Just be sure that in the "Select Print Size" section of the print window that you choose "Actual Size".

BTW, your idea to change the crop to save pages is a good one.

Here's a tip for sewing the pieces together... Do not rinse the fabric (to set the ink) until you've sewn the pieces together. When you rinse the fabric, it may skew a bit and each piece will skew slightly differently. That makes it really tough to match the design across the seams.

Also, the easiest way I've found to sew the pieces together is to press back the seam allowance on one piece (using a dry iron since any water drops on the unrinsed fabric may cause water marks). Apply glue stick (washable or one for fabric) to the pressed back seam allowance. Then visually line up that tile with the one next to it. Press down so that the glue stick holds everything in place, then open and sew along the crease. This is so much easier than using a light box or holding up two pieces to a window and then trying to pin everything in place.

Hope this helps!

[she-quilts]

Here's a tip for sewing the pieces together... Do not rinse the fabric (to set the ink) until you've sewn the pieces together. When you rinse the fabric, it may skew a bit and each piece will skew slightly differently. That makes it really tough to match the design across the seams.

Also, the easiest way I've found to sew the pieces together is to press back the seam allowance on one piece (using a dry iron since any water drops on the unrinsed fabric may cause water marks). Apply glue stick (washable or one for fabric) to the pressed back seam allowance. Then visually line up that tile with the one next to it. Press down so that the glue stick holds everything in place, then open and sew along the crease. This is so much easier than using a light box or holding up two pieces to a window and then trying to pin everything in place.

Hope this helps!

Oh yes, this will help SO much! I don't really have the time or $$ to do many trials of this. I've printed photos many times but the joining them together is new.

You are brilliant! Thank you for sharing!! The quilt is due in May so I'll try to post here later.

[Margo]

Jeanie's tip for joining the pieces is an excellent way to join any seam that you need to match a design on!
Whether it's your own printed photos or printed fabric, it works like a charm!

[she-quilts]

With a nasty magic wand, since April/May when all of PS worked fine for me... I now have NO cropping tool! :x

Can you help?

This is my screen shot of my tools --


Am I missing something? I can't even get to crop my photo. :tears:

[lotti]

Hello Joyce
i have PS Creative Suite... and a german version - but should basically be in the same place and work the same way...
go to the little triangle on the bottom right next to the slice tool - the 5th one down, click on that - and you can select the cropping tool in the little window




hope this helps :lol:

[dfrank27]

With a nasty magic wand, since April/May when all of PS worked fine for me... I now have NO cropping tool! :x

Can you help?

This is my screen shot of my tools --


Am I missing something? I can't even get to crop my photo. :tears:

If you can't get your tool back, try contacting Jeanie. Her TQS screen name is jeaniesa. Jeanie is on Facebook as well.

[she-quilts]

Hello Joyce
i have PS Creative Suite... and a german version - but should basically be in the same place and work the same way...
go to the little triangle on the bottom right next to the slice tool - the 5th one down, click on that - and you can select the cropping tool in the little window


hope this helps :lol:

YES!!! This helps completely!!! ((Hugs)) Thank you!! I figured it was just hiding but had.no.idea. how to find it. :bowing: