Next comes sizing the photos.   This is really personal preference.  For Peggy’s memory quilt I left the pictures pretty much the size they were.  I may have zoomed in on a few, but for the majority I left them alone.  Now I do admit, I used adobe photo shop on them and “tweaked” them a little.   Adjusting the color, sharpness, etc. to make them as clear and good as I possibly could.  The majority of the photos were the standard 4″x6″.  But when you are sizing your photos, make them a size that looks good and fits the look of the quilt.

With Mom’s pictures I cropped them down to where they were all the same size.  I believe I made them 5″x5″.  With her quilt having so many different materials I thought the consistency of the photo size would helped to balance it out, and it did.  I used a hewlett/packard 1600 printer-scanner all in one and it was very simple to use.  Any scanner will work, but as far as the printer goes , I would try to stick with a laser printer, or a made for that purpose…printing photos.photo printer