Hope everyone is well. This week the theme is Well-dressed Man. I have been addicted to Mad Men on Netflix. So, I chose Don Draper (Jon Hamm). Last year at the WI Quilt Expo, Kristy Daum had her quilt, Sherlock there. It was a pixel quilt. She took a photo and uploaded it to pic2pat and it created a pattern for cross stitch but she turned it into a quilt. I have wanted to try this but never had a subject until now.
I took this picture and did the pic2pat
Then I had to find fabric. I actually had to buy fabric for this one. Not once but twice. The first time I made this I measured wrong . Each square was to measure 1.5 by 1.5. So my thinking was 1.5+1.5 equals three, it doesn't it equals 2.5 when you take away the seam allowance. Nothing was matching up so I decided to start over . So off to the quilt store again to buy more fabric.
Did I do it right the second time? Of course not. The brown I had chosen was way too dark and he look like a scary skeleton.
He still does look a little scary up close but if you squint you can see his figure better.
He measures about 27x27.
Linking up to project quilting. Thanks for stopping by.
Blessings,
Amy
You are brave to make your own pixle pattern! Nice!
ReplyDeleteThank Janie! It was actually a lot of fun!
Delete1.5 squares!! Wow! I really love the idea you had and from far, you are right - it really does look like the picture. Isn't Mad Men amazing? I binge watched the entire thing recently. I just couldn't stop!! :-)
ReplyDeleteLuckily I made a hybrid pixel and made strips where I could. 758 squares would have made too many seams. Yikes! I loved Mad Men and binge watched it too. Now I am back to Gilmore Girls for the 4th time.
DeleteI've always wanted to try this technique. Great idea! I love Mad Men too.
ReplyDeleteTry it! It is a lot of fun!
DeleteGreat job! I love the story behind this and so glad you didn't give up! Are you going to try a 3rd time?
ReplyDeleteThird time was the charm. I think I would like to make a bigger one sometime. Thanks for a great challenge Kim!
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