As digital fabric printing becomes more prevalent, fabric users have even more choices for printing their own without resorting to the vagaries of their home printers. The latest SAQA Journal has a good comparison by the Pixeladies of fabric printing services. In the future I may try some of the services reviewed, but for now I’m sticking with Spoonflower as I know their interface and have been satisfied with their work. And it doesn’t hurt that they’ve been running 20% off sales.
I’ve turned to photos printed on fabric as a way to continue creating now that intense piecing is literally painful for me. I aspire to create work like the one below, but I’ve a ways to go.
Jill Kerttula uses fabric printed photographs as a starting point for her work. Her blog entry about “6 of Chaos”shows her process. You can see more of her work on her website.
From my latest fabric order I created “Corrugated,” which uses four fat quarters of Photoshop edited versions of a photo my friend Penny took. I’ve inset narrow strips of varying widths to spice up the palette.
I don’t know if I’ll add more embellishment or quilt it as is. Any opinions are welcome.
Inspiration for how to deal with another fabric from the same order has been slow in coming. This is another photo from Penny that I played with in Photoshop. I want to emphasize the gritty textures, and may add some of the fabric I painted for my Tansy Hargan class.
Just in case you wondered, I’ve never had any flower photos printed for me, though I’ve used photos of trees.
I’m linking to Off The Wall Friday.
The Snarky Quilter 
Corrugated is awesome! Your strips of color add just the right amount of pop. I love the photos you have shown here and others printed on fabric in the past. There’s just something about a captured hard surface, especially decaying, printed on fabric.
Thank you. My friend Penny said she needs to send me photos of non-rusty objects for a change.