This is my third portrait quilt. The first two were the pear still life ones (here and here). This one was made using a photo I took of my dog. The teacher from the iQuilt class (Leni Levenson) actually took this photo of Lizzie and turned it into the pattern.
The quilt is machine appliqued and quilted. It measures approx 20.5 in x 21.75 in. It is not perfect but turned out fairly well. Here's the finished quilt.
Here are two detail photos
There are some things I hope to do better with more practice. For example, I know that red fabric often will bleed if not washed (and sometime even if prewashed). The red fabric had been prewashed and when I washed the fabric markings from the quilt I used cold water to try to prevent bleed. It happened anyway. I fixed it by appliqueing more fabric over the red areas as you can see.
Also as I did the "dog" first and then decided on the background I had the brown fabric of the floor showing through the white of the "dog." I had to "underline" the dog with a layer of muslin to hid the brown.
Just for fun check out this photo of Lizzie sitting with me while I was working on this quilt.
