How Do You Make Heirloom Photo Quilts?
An heirloom photo quilt is a touchable, soft scrapbook with huge potential for a cozy trip down memory lane. Imagine snuggling under a quilt composed of photographs of your parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents and great-grandparents. A child’s quilt made of heirloom photos will add pictures to bedtime stories about “the olden days.” An heirloom photo quilt also can commemorate a special birthday or anniversary with photographs illustrating memorable moments and important places from the recipient’s past. Scan each heirloom photograph and save it on your computer. Move each saved photo into a word-processing program and resize it to 3 inches by 3 inches. Prepare the fabric by cutting 24 pieces of freezer paper and 24 pieces of white muslin to 8 1/2 by 11 inches. Iron each sheet of freezer paper to one sheet of muslin. Trim all loose edge threads so they don’t jam the printer. Print each heirloom photograph on a sheet of the freezer/muslin paper. Peel off the freezer paper and c
