Collage Quilt

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Comment by Kay Graham on June 11, 2012 at 8:20am

Still love your collage quilt!!  Have you made any more???

Comment by Greg Hanson on September 24, 2010 at 12:52pm

Photographing my work....hmmmm...not the easiest thing for me. This particular collage quilt is small enough to fit on my scanner, as are a number of my other flat pieces, but the assemblages are tricky. I don't have any tricks to share, I use a Casio Exilim digital camera, have a little area set up in my back bedroom with some cheap lights, a makeshift copy stand to attach my camera, and hope for the best. I often have to bring some of my photos back to the computer and clean them up a bit using apple's iphoto program...it's the best I can do...I'm not a photographer at heart....but thanks for giving me credit !!

Comment by Virgil "Cranky" Suarez on September 24, 2010 at 12:53am

Greg, who photographs your work? If it is you, could you tell us a little bit about the equipment you use. Thanks in advance for the input. And keep up the great, beautiful work!

Comment by Shannon Crandall on September 23, 2010 at 9:51pm

Thanks for the tips. I will try a bit of sanding to see how that works for me. Everything I glued down was left to dry for about 2 days because I didn't have time to cut them right away. I do have a jigsaw and for the rest of the blocks maybe I will use that or pre-cut them as you have suggested and then sand. Now I just need to find some more colorful vintage papers to complete my collage quilt.

Comment by Greg Hanson on September 23, 2010 at 10:42am

Hi Shannon, I use the regular paper that comes out of the color copy machine at Kinkos...just "regular" paper, I guess. I'm also careful to make sure the paper is fully glued down (and dry) before cutting...I use Yes Paste, which some like, others don't, etc. I also use a smallish jigsaw for most of my cutting...if I do get any jagged/ripped edges, I take those pieces to my electric rotary sander and smooth everything out...it is actually nice to smooth down those edges anyway, ragged or not. There are small electric hand sanders that you can buy, but I inherited an old rotary style sander, which does the job very fast, clean and neat. With the edges sanded in such a way, the piece seems to be able to take on the homemade alcohol ink that I use, around the edges, to add some aging. I hope this helps...it sounds like you may be using the wrong kind of saw, or a saw with a bad blade, etc., but I kind of welcome ragged edges since I get to do some "power sanding!!!" Sometimes I have cut my wood into the small pieces first, and then glued down the small precut/premeausred papers, but you'll still need to do some sanding, to smooth rough edges. Let me know if this helps!

Comment by Shannon Crandall on September 23, 2010 at 7:50am

When you make copies of various vintage papers do you use a matte or a glossy paper and is the paper a heavier paper that a paper that you would use in a home printer? I am also curious as to what kind of saw you use to cut the pictures up into different sizes. I have tried gluing my vintage papers down on some masonite that I had hanging around from another project. It worked well until I cut it with the chop saw.....the edges turned out very jagged and the blade actually ripped up some of the vintage paper. I appreciate any information you can give me because I really want to be able to make some of these collage quilts. Thanks Shannon

Comment by Shannon Crandall on September 19, 2010 at 8:25am

I hope to try and make one of my own soon.

Comment by Greg Hanson on September 19, 2010 at 2:55am

Shannon and Marie...many thanks...hope to do more of these.

Comment by Shannon Crandall on September 9, 2010 at 10:33pm

I fell in love with this the minute I saw it! Love your work.

Comment by Marie-Aimée on September 8, 2010 at 4:12pm

just amazing piece

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