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OHMYGOSH Frelga! That is simply amazing. I'm in :love:
The actual frame is a quilt too! :shock:
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I can’t even fathom how that was made!
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Oh, that is clever!

My older daughter gave my husband a t-shirt press a few months ago to thank him for all the work he did on her house last summer, and you can print images on a printer and then heat press them onto the piece of clothing.

I suspect that "quilt" was done with something like that. Print the three paintings out on transfer paper, then cut them in strips and lay them out in appropriate order on the cloth and then transfer. Or maybe do the cutting and pasting digitally and then put whole sheets of the transfer paper onto the cloth.

Then fanfold and sew and it's done.

Maybe.

I'm sure there's a steep learning curve involved.

My husband and I made this shirt for me last weekend.
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It was mostly a proof of concept tee. An old t-shirt, with only 10% polyester. Turns out the dye doesn't stick well on that low of poly blend and the dragons turned maroon/brown after washing. It's still cool, though, and I'll probably wear it to work tomorrow.
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Nice!

When my daughter was in her early teens she had a LotR themed sleep-over birthday party and I made t-shirts for each attendee with self-printed iron-on transfers. It was fun.
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I crocheted a baby blanket. :love:
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I had to find a small, compact stitch to use, so the little guy won't get fingers and toes caught in the holes. So I picked the "moss stitch" and did a bunch of tinkering and eventually came up with this.

When I was halfway done with it, my daughter mentioned that they will be using sleep sacks at first because traditional bedding just isn't safe. :bang: Who knew?

So maybe this is just for decoration. Or cuddling the baby in when awake? It is an exact copy of the tilework behind the wood stove in my house, so maybe they'll like it just for that reason.

It's done in acrylic yarn for easy of washing. The big wool one I made for us will be a pain to wash when that finally needs doing. Something ostensibly for a baby should be easily washable.
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That is a beautiful, lovely, and exceptionally thoughtful gift! And even if it isn't used in the baby bed, baby can still get snuggled up in it while being held or nursed or in the car...
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Maria, that is stunning! Beautiful. I think it will be appreciated for the labor of love that it is no matter how it is used.. and I'm sure it will get some use.
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Maria, I had several 2'x3' quilts which were handy for draping over the car seat or under the kid outdoors. It's beautiful!
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For a while I was stressing about how one side of each triangle makes several blobs into the other color. I tried so many different ways of changing the colors, but nothing I tried worked as well as this, so I eventually decided to make it part of the pattern. Now that it's done, and the non-smooth transition areas are part of the overall pattern- I've decided it's more of a feature than a bug.

Even last night I thought of another yet way to try to make a two color granny square..... and while the transition was smoother, the corners were rounder and pulled in. Bah! I quit. The weird little chunks can just stay.

(And yes, I saw youtube vids on the topic, but none of them used the stitch I was using, so it didn't work right and ended up causing more problems than it solved.)

But... yeah. I've got a unique pattern going. I really ought to video myself on how I do everything so I can repeat the process some day.
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That’s a lovely blanket! And blankets are useful in myriad situations.
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Maria, I think those 'blobs' are a lovely feature (not a bug). It gives it a softer, almost lacy look.
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I had a pattern I loved to crochet that was essentially granny hexagons, not granny squares. It used a large hook and double yarn. Half the fun was blending different colors from one hex to the next, in 3 directions. I made about a dozen afghans with that pattern- each one different. The photos below are of the afghan I made for my parents, which eventually came back to me. I used a multicolored yarn, plus six different solid colored selections that were represented in the multicolor yarn. The center hex is two strands of mulitcolor. The surrounding 6 hexes are each a multicolor plus a solid. The next ring out is double solids, or two adjacent solids. The outer hexes are multicolor plus the adjacent solid color. I had fun geeking out on that one. Other afghans I made were similar, but more simple blendings, to make rainbow stripes or a fried egg pattern.
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Oh, wow! That turned out really nice!
I like the pinwheel pattern the holes make in each hex, too. :)
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Wow, that's some fancy needlework narya. I love the colors.
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Somehow, I didn't envision the baby looking like he had fairy wings with this blanket pattern!
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Awesome! I love the pattern of those squares! :love: Such an adorable photo!
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Biblically accurate baby!

Beautiful blanket, I love the bold colors.
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Unfortunately, the pattern of the crochet imprinted itself on him pretty quick :oops: , so she's not going to use the blanket again until he's strong enough to move around some.
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So bold in pattern and colour!

Aside: I love the blur of teeny feet kicking :D
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I made a Jayne hat!
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I wasn't there for the third pic, so am not responsible for it being on backwards. :P
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