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July 28, 2012
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This is an experiment.

I work at a fabric / quilting store. I get a great deal on quilting fabric, so I've decided to use it. (Cosplay sewing is on hold for reasons of burnout. At least with this I can sew without thinking or being largely disappointed with what I make)

This week after work, I bought 20cm samples of 37 different quilting fabrics

I brought them home and sliced them into 2x2" squares

I scanned each fabric swatch, cropped and saved each as an individual .jpg image

I downloaded AndreaMosaic

I used my Plain Portrait stock and input the parameters of my folder of swatches

I rendered the mosaic and plan to use this image as a template for building my quilt.

The finished quilt will be 50 x 69 1-inch fabric pixel swatches when complete. 3450 squares in all.

I hope to get at least one row done per night to finish my proof of concept. Then, hopefully, I can ramp up the resolution to 1/2" squares to make a much finer image.

Download the image to view details of the pattern of each swatch.
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~mankkinn Jan 30, 2013
you're beautifulll
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*Lunalight Aug 16, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
reminding me on minecraft somehow^^
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~AlmostMyself Aug 2, 2012  Student Digital Artist
It'd be awesome to have a blanket of my face
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~Blooper1980 Aug 2, 2012
You can also use photoshop to create a pixeled version of the image. Let me know if you need help?
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=Kxhara Aug 2, 2012
That's part of what I did to help create the fabric map. I shrunk down the photo of my face to a low resolution, then blew it back up again to have large squares to show the colour variation.
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~NarcoVampira Jul 31, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
AMAAAAZING!!!! \(*O*\) you are awesome, please upload a pic of the finished thing!!!
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~FlyAway-555 Jul 29, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Best of luck!!
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~BekaDavis Jul 29, 2012
Brilliant idea! I'm stoked to see how this ends up and I hope to attempt it myself... put my sewing machine to good use.
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~MehMagic Jul 29, 2012  Student General Artist
This is remarkable! Insane! :D
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*Kuiji Jul 29, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
That is so totally awesome! Good luck! And pleaseplease show us when it's done!
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