photo quilts

[basket]

A friend has asked me to make a photo quilt with pictures of her recently deceased son. The photos have already been transfered to fabric and are 8X10 and 5X7 I'm not sure how to work these into blocks and would appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks
Sue

[Evie]

You might want to add borders around them then square them up to the same size.

I just bumped up a thread in the Photo section I started called DH's T-Shirt Quilt. ScrapQuilter made a t-shirt quilt where all the blocks were different sizes and it turned out great. It might give you a few ideas.

[needlequilt]

i made a wall quilt with different sizes photos. I quilted by sandwich first. then I found "framing fabric" for each photo and appliqued them on randomly and on angles so it did not seem so lopsided for photo size differences. also on frame fabrics it can be fun to use permanent markers to date each photo

[CindyB]

I would take some unbleached muslin, or something light and square them up by adding borders on 2 sides, or if you want to make them 12" square, all four sides. Or a black, would make something like a frame, which would be cool! You could also do the borders kitty-kornered (not straight) so the picture is at a little angle, which would make it look like it was planned!!! Cindy

[quilterbee]

How about an Ohio Star with the pic in the center?
Or have you seen the Collectables Quilts, they look like pieces of furniture, like a bookshelf or curio cabinet with pics in picture frames, flowers, nick-nacks, etc. I have both books and they are super neat. You can Google it- Wendy Etzel, The Collectables Quilt

Amie

[busyhands125]

I made photo quilts, what I did was take strips and sew them on the photo pictures to like like picture frames, on the larger picture make it to fit like a 12" block . the other one use two strips different sizes, to get to same size 12". Like making a log cabin with them been the base, center block. It can me done easy, don't cut picture from sheets the white is the sew line area after you put stripe on then if you have to trim then do it. that way you are not cutting off any of picture.
Pat

[basket]

Wow! Thank you all for your suggestions and help
Sue

[gardenquilter]

i have a cutomer who makes these as gifts for all of her peeps
she actually makes a large blank top and then puts the pictures on at all different angles and frames them with fabric wusing zugzag stitches and tehn finds fabric that matches the theme of picutres and raw edge appliques on the quilt look slike a big scrap book page awesome