Quilting by Number with V&A
July 29, 2010, 11:43 am Posted by Thom O'Hearn
Patchwork Pattern Maker from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Designing your own quilting pattern can take days or even weeks. Not so with the Patchwork Pattern Maker from the Victoria & Albert Museum. This program lets you pick any image from your hard drive and turn it into a quilt diagram. There are plenty of options too. For a quick project you can choose a simple image and go with as few as five colors and a grid of 10 x 10. The more impressive images translate into harder quilts: 20 colors and a 30 x 30 grid with triangles as well as squares.
Whether you have vacation pictures, a snapshot of your dog, or a movie poster that is begging to be turned into a quilt, with the Patchwork Pattern Maker you’re just a few clicks away. Navigate to the project’s homepage to get started: http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/quilts/patchwork
And here are a few examples from other quilters:
Spock Quilt Pattern
Julius Quilt Pattern
Hendrix Quilt Pattern
