Charlie E

Excellent job! If you lived near a beach you could set up a store and sell those made to order.

Beautiful! Love the flowers. That wouldn’t be in my skill set since I can’t even draw a flower. Fun stuff to look at though. I’m sure it’s enjoyable work.

Really really nice! I love that it’s made from scrap.

Great job on a very nice pattern.

Love that one Paul.

Everything I've done lately has been with a site called Cute Cutter. https://cutecutter.com/ It's like you said with what you're using. You can upload a picture, preferably close up and as high def as possible and adjust a few setting it has, called blur, edge contrast, threshold, and remove speckles, but it only gets you to a starting point. Then there is a slide adjuster that lets you transition the image from the original to the pattern where you can see both at the same time and you make adjustments manually with "touchups" I didn't have a teacher, just played around with it for hours and hours with my laptop while sitting with the fam watching TV. Very very often I give up on a picture because it just doesn't work well with this program. I'm sure there is much better software out there and I'd love to buy something, I just haven't really done much looking. This site is free except I make a donation from time to time. You're also limited with fine adjustments with this site and sometimes when I've done all I can do I download it and make adjustments in Paint 3D. I might actually spend 4 or 5 hours on a pattern so it's tedious but I enjoy it as much as cutting sometimes.

Nice!

That’s a cool project! I’m sitting by my father-in-law’s pond right now. Not a nibble so I decided to give it up and relax.

Looks great. Good to get some shop therapy.

It's a pretty strange movie but has a pretty big following. One of the actors in it is Andre The Giant, the wrestler from years gone by. It pretty silly but I've enjoyed watching it through the years with kids and grandkids.

Found an image online used for tee shirts, added the text with Inkscape and made the image scrollable as I cut. This one, one of my kids may actually want when I kick the bucket.

This movie is The Princess Bride. Not at all your typical romantic comedy. Lots of people, including me, love it but it's very wacky and different. You may or may not like it, but I doubt you'd nod off.

Not Ghost.

Anybody familiar enough with this 1987 romantic comedy to recognize this yet? It would be "inconceivable" if you do.

Beautiful work on both of those Barb!

Those are really cute, Barb!

Thanks Melanie. If you're ever interested in a copy of the pattern just let me know.

Thank you!

Henry "Hank" Aaron. Played most of his career with the Atlanta Braves. 755 career homeruns. He broke Babe Ruth's record of 714 in 1974. I was 13 at the time and remember friends explaining why Babe's record was better, which they probably heard from their dad. At the time I just figured I didn't know enough about baseball to understand. Pretty sure it had a lot more to do with color than baseball. Proud I got to see him play.

Great! Lots of work go into those sales.

Fantastic! Makes you stare for a while. I like that the wood grains shows up in the colors. Home run. * Just saw the date on this post. Still fantastic.

Good for you! So many never come back. I was fortunately born with no tolerance for it and not much of an addictive tendency. Except for my shop, my wife would argue.

I started a portrait of a pretty well known baseball player this afternoon. Any fans recognize him yet?

Sent a message

I tried to stack cut a portrait of Einstein smoking a pipe, but when I took it apart the one on the bottom was sticking his tongue out at me. Died 67 years ago and still amazing. Actually I cut one for my shop and then my daughter requested the one with his tongue out for her classroom. The patterns aren't mine. Just some images I found on Google that I tweaked a bit to make scrollable.