Kathy K. Wylie Quilting » scan http://www.kathykwylie.com/blog Author, Quilter, Designer, Teacher Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:53:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Printing Fabric Part 4: Scanning & Printing Continued http://www.kathykwylie.com/blog/2010/03/printing-fabric-part-4-scanning-printing-continued/ http://www.kathykwylie.com/blog/2010/03/printing-fabric-part-4-scanning-printing-continued/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:50:22 +0000 kkwylie http://www.kathykwylie.com/blog/?p=832 fabric!]]> Paper isn’t the only thing we can scan and print.  We can do the same thing with fabric.  Why, you might ask, would we need to scan and print fabric? 

Well, take this fruit fabric as an example.  Suppose I wanted to use it as part of a quilt label. 

Instead of sewing a border onto my label, I could scan the fabric and print it all in one.

Or, I could apply an effect called transparency.  I could continue to lighten the fabric until text would be visible on it.

This effect works really well if you want to use the same fabric as the quilt backing for your label.

Once our fabric is scanned, we can apply image editing tricks to it as well.  Take this animal fabric, for instance.

We could isolate the chicken…

We could turn him to face in the other direction…

We could turn him pink!

We could make him tall and skinny…

Or short and squat…

And we could put them all together in a funky chicken nine-patch block!

And these are just a few ideas of what you could do.

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Calendars
Don’t you always keep your old Lang or Pine Ridge Art calendars, because the pictures are too beautiful to throw away?  This image, by Sam Timm, was featured in October 2004.

Here it is, scanned and printed to fabric, and then thread painted.

Wallpaper
This is the wallpaper in my diningroom.

I could scan the wallpaper border and print it to fabric…

and then make a table runner for my diningroom table.

Scrapbooking Paper
When I first encountered scrapbooking paper, it reminded me of fabric!  Why not turn it into fabric?

This wall quilt features the scrapbooking paper scanned and printed to fabric.

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