coloring on quilt
02-23-2010, 05:17 AM
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I think it was Shelly, she has a beautiful quilt she recently posted.
here is the link http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-37571-1.htm
here is the link http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-37571-1.htm
02-23-2010, 05:18 AM
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all you need it crayons and muslin...prepared for dying works great but isn't necessary. i use coloring book pages for some of the patterns. after coloring use a press cloth, or brown paper (like a paper bag) and heat set the colors, you can go over it more and more heat setting between each 'layer' of color to blend and to darken the colors. once it is heat set it is set...after many washes it may start looking faded...just recolor and it's all better again.
i know some people are saying you have to have special crayons but we have been making coloring quilts at a local pre-school for about 10 years now and have always used the kids crayons, didn't matter if they were crayola, or dollar store crayons they all worked pretty good, some colors were not as vibrant at times but we never needed anything special. we have sold (raffled off for fundraiser) 9 of these quilts and the kids have all made one for themselves, it is one of their very favorite parts of the school year :) have fun with it , it is coloring after all it's supposed to be fun not full of wasted expense and stress.
i know some people are saying you have to have special crayons but we have been making coloring quilts at a local pre-school for about 10 years now and have always used the kids crayons, didn't matter if they were crayola, or dollar store crayons they all worked pretty good, some colors were not as vibrant at times but we never needed anything special. we have sold (raffled off for fundraiser) 9 of these quilts and the kids have all made one for themselves, it is one of their very favorite parts of the school year :) have fun with it , it is coloring after all it's supposed to be fun not full of wasted expense and stress.
02-24-2010, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by ckcowl
all you need it crayons and muslin...prepared for dying works great but isn't necessary. i use coloring book pages for some of the patterns. after coloring use a press cloth, or brown paper (like a paper bag) and heat set the colors, you can go over it more and more heat setting between each 'layer' of color to blend and to darken the colors. once it is heat set it is set...after many washes it may start looking faded...just recolor and it's all better again.
i know some people are saying you have to have special crayons but we have been making coloring quilts at a local pre-school for about 10 years now and have always used the kids crayons, didn't matter if they were crayola, or dollar store crayons they all worked pretty good, some colors were not as vibrant at times but we never needed anything special. we have sold (raffled off for fundraiser) 9 of these quilts and the kids have all made one for themselves, it is one of their very favorite parts of the school year :) have fun with it , it is coloring after all it's supposed to be fun not full of wasted expense and stress.
i know some people are saying you have to have special crayons but we have been making coloring quilts at a local pre-school for about 10 years now and have always used the kids crayons, didn't matter if they were crayola, or dollar store crayons they all worked pretty good, some colors were not as vibrant at times but we never needed anything special. we have sold (raffled off for fundraiser) 9 of these quilts and the kids have all made one for themselves, it is one of their very favorite parts of the school year :) have fun with it , it is coloring after all it's supposed to be fun not full of wasted expense and stress.
Does the crayon bleed outside the lines where you colored it when the wax melts?
02-27-2010, 06:51 PM
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Here is a pic that I colored the blocks and heat set them so you can see. I just used Rose Art crayons, they seem to have a little more pigment in the wax, in my opinion.
The finished quilt, all blocks were colored
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