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Have you always wanted to create a quilt using your own photographs? Not sure where to begin? Let Susan Brubaker Knapp walk you through the entire process--start to finish--in her book, Point, Click, Quilt! Here are a few great tips from Susan to get your "wheels" turning.

• Take photo both vertically and horizontally.  While we naturally see the world horizontally, some subjects beg to be shot in a vertical format.
• Take photos at different times of the day if you are not happy with your initial results.
• Don't just take photos head on.  Shoot from various angles; high, low, from above, from below.
• Take lots of photos.  With digital cameras, there's no film or processing charge.  Remember, if you are lucky, you get one good shot in a hundred.
  
• Have prints made of your best photographs, the ones you might want to use in the future, and put them in an album.  
• Categorize the images.  Plants go in one place, animals, landscapes, and so on in another.  This album is a source of images and inspirations whenever the creative well runs dry.
• Stabilize your work with a fairly heavy stabilizer to help the piece lie flat and hang properly on the wall.
• Consider drapery-weight fabric as a backing.  It can add a desirable stiffness to art quilts and also acts as an additional stabilizer during the quilting process.