![]() ![]() ![]() This is just one approach for using photos and sketching to inspire your fabric wall art. ![]() Email yourself a photo and save it on the iPad.Upload a photo from your computer when you synchronize your iPad.Take a photo with a regular digital camera and upload it directly to the iPad using a dongle connector cord.Take a photo with the iPad using the camera function.Choose the method that works best for you. Lisa uses four different methods to get a photo on her iPad. Printed on fabric and stitched, this iPad-generated image becomes a lovely handmade wall hanging. Sometimes Lisa prints the image at home, other times she uses an online service.Īfter printing her image on fabric, Lisa makes a quilt sandwich and stitches along the outlines of the image, adding decorative free-motion stitching to her wall quilt as desired. To “sketch,” she just opens her digital photo in the app, makes her artistic adjustments, and saves the image until she can print it out. Before flattening your layers, shuffle their order and experiment with the different effects you can achieve. The Brushes3 app allows you to work with several layers at a time. Lisa has used several photo-editing apps–and new ones are created every day–but she prefers the Brushes3 app. With apps instead of art supplies, you can sketch anywhere so long as you have battery life or an electrical outlet. But before she prints her photos onto fabric for stitching, Lisa alters and enhances the images in her digital sketchbook: an iPad.Īn iPad makes a handy sketchbook: it’s portable, holds a lot of images, and you don’t have to worry about smearing ink. Lisa Thorpe uses her photos as a jumping off point for her wall quilts. Lisa Thorpe uses the Brushes3 app to ‘sketch’ her photo in preparation for making a wall hanging. When creating quilted wall hangings, what do you use for inspiration? Many quilt artists take their cue from their own photos. ![]()
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