I was in a meeting the other day at work, and the subject was QR codes. I was asked to write technical guidelines on how to use them in business. As the meeting began, I pulled out my quilted covered notebook to take notes and one of my coworkers said: “you could make a QR code quilt.” We all had a good laugh, and the meeting commenced.
But the thought stuck in my mind. For years, I have been saving 2-inch squares of batik fabric. For some reason, I decided that if a scrap of batik was big enough to get one or more 2-inch squares, I’d keep it. I don’t do this with any other fabric, just batiks. These squares would be perfect for the QR code quilt, but what would happen when the QR code quilt is scanned? I decided to use my website address KristinLaura.com for the QR code. Using a QR code generator, I produced a 29×29 grid of squares…that comes out to 841 shares! No way am I going to piece together 841 2″ squares, but I remembered reading about watercolor quilts that use a fusible gridded interfacing. I will give that a try…
The notebook that inspired the quilt, the 2″ batik squares, and my QR code pattern