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How to Make a Mosaic Tile Portrait of Your Pet

comments (4) February 14th, 2009     

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JenniferStern Jennifer Stern, contributor
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This is my new wall hanging featuring a mosaic image of my dog Emma.
Heres the original picture of Emma before I cut it up.
There are a bunch of different brands of Inkjet Fabric Sheets. I think Printed Treasures works the best. It comes in an iron-on version thats great for this technique!
This is my new wall hanging featuring a mosaic image of my dog Emma.

This is my new wall hanging featuring a mosaic image of my dog Emma.

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Without disturbing your strips, cut across them, creating individual pieces. As you start cutting, try to keep all the pieces in order so you don't end up with a mess.

Cut the strips into 1 inch squares
If you want to make different size pieces, cut the picture into sections. Cut each section into the size pieces you would like to work with. Keep in mind that tiny details will get lost the smaller the individual pieces are.

 

Here is my chopped-up picture.

Here's my chopped up photo
I replaced all the runaway pieces and covered it with a big square plastic ruler to keep them in order until I was ready to work with them.

I thought it would be more interesting to piece various neutral squares together to make the background. You can do that or use a single piece of fabric. After I got going pretty good, it occurred to me that I could have taken a picture of the red-checked fabric Emma was sitting on and incorporated it into the arrangement as well...next time.

play with the arrangement of your squares
If you like things in order, it's hard to let yourself go and mess up the pieces a little...I ended up straightening up my picture when it got down to the final draft.

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Comments (4)

littlednme writes: What a cool idea! I LOVE mosaics and my dogs! I can't wait to give it a try. Thanks for the idea!
Posted: 7:13 pm on July 19th
JenniferStern writes: Hi Meredith and Linda, Thanks for ringing in. I would use the fusible version from Printed Treasures, it works great, and you don't have to do the step of dealing with separate webbing. And, I've washed it in gentle and it stays fused and the colors stay pretty good too! Here's the address for Printed Treasures (that will take you right to the fusible version. http://www.printedtreasures.com/products/ironon/Pages/IronOn.aspx
Happy sewing!
Posted: 1:13 pm on February 15th
LindaPermann writes: this came out cute. do you have a recommendation (as far as brands, etc go) for the printable fabric sheets? i have been curious to try them, but the last ones i bought were not washable. thanks!
Posted: 8:31 pm on February 14th
MeredithP writes: I love this mosaic idea. Having never worked with the printable fabric, it sounds like there is a fusible version? That's cool, because as I was reading I wondered whether you could fuse some web on the back before cutting. My "subjects" would have to be locked away while working on this, they would love to help with all those pieces. This is a neat idea and any photo would work. Thanks for the inspriration.
Posted: 2:02 pm on February 14th
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