Crafting the Batman quilt was a lot of fun, but it certainly involved a lot of trial and error. Actually doing the construction turned out to be easier than I expected. Planning the process was the bigger challenge.
 | Back on Day 1 of this series, I told you how I'd expected to use the hugely-magnified scan of the original comic as my pattern. That worked fine for cutting the background architecture, but as soon as I started on the figure, the system broke down. |
True, the copy I printed was very pale. Very pale. While that didn't help, it wasn't the real problem. Apparently, magnified to more than 500% of original size, all the lines in the comic got very fuzzy. Tracing over them with a sharp pencil clarified the nature of the problem, but not the image. I'd have to go back to the (computer) drawing-board and produce a precise line drawing.
| There was the sketch I'd made for the color trials. It was way too rough and angular in the details, but a good place to start. Since I'd already completed the piecing of the background, the new version only had to refine the figure. |  |
With a grid added to divide the image into 25 sheets of paper, it was ready to print.
Coming up next: Holy seams, Batman! We're actually sewing!
Coming up next: Holy seams, Batman! We're actually sewing!
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