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CRAZY FOR MINNESOTA WILDFLOWERS

This large wall hanging is all cotton with star sashing added to separate the crazy pieced blocks. These blocks were made using a printed fabric foundation sheet I developed as a teaching aide for my Crazy Quilting classes. Machine stipple quilted. The wildflower images were computer generated: I scanned in watercolor paintings of common Minnesota wildflowers into my computer then printed them out on t-shirt transfer sheets. I then transferred the images to white cotton using a hot iron. The resulting images have good detail but the process stiffens the fabric slightly.

A newer product on the market is Bubble Jet Set which produces good clean images that are not stiff. Bubble Jet Set is particularly effective in transferring line images and lettering.  It is commonly used in making quilt labels where you want clearly legible lettering; I've even used it to reproduce recipes of calorie-rich desserts in my Not Too Crazy About Dieting refrigerator quilt.



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