Turning a child's drawing into a quilting block
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I would like to make my son's teacher a quilt. What I would like to do is have each child draw a picture and then transfer the picture to materail to then use in the quilt. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to transfer a picture to fabric? Or another suggestion on how to? The students are first graders so skill levels are limited. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by onemoretry
I would like to make my son's teacher a quilt. What I would like to do is have each child draw a picture and then transfer the picture to materail to then use in the quilt. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to transfer a picture to fabric? Or another suggestion on how to? The students are first graders so skill levels are limited. Thanks!
It worked well for me. Would do it again.
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You could possibly use photo transfer fabric in your printer. I think that the paper runs about a dollar per sheet and it's the size of a reg. sheet of paper. You can get it on line or at a quilt shop. Look here under "search" and put in photo quilts. Just the other day there was a lady who showed us her fantastic photo quilts and maybe if you PMed her, she could give you all the help you need. I would like to make one, but haven't yet. Good luck! Great idea for the teacher!
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you could iron bleached muslin on freezer paper and have the kids color a picture on it (may be the art teacher could help you with this if it is a surprise) then heat set the pictures then use the blocks in the quilt
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Originally Posted by onemoretry
I would like to make my son's teacher a quilt. What I would like to do is have each child draw a picture and then transfer the picture to materail to then use in the quilt. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to transfer a picture to fabric? Or another suggestion on how to? The students are first graders so skill levels are limited. Thanks!
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That's what I did for 2nd graders but we used an iron on/peel off paper ironed onto muslin, precut to size, 6,10 or 12inch size. Kids first pencil their drawing, then use black markers to outline ..this on the paper side. The image shows thru to fabric side. We then had them use fabric markers to color in their pic on muslin side. Then ur fun starts trying to put it together. Our theme was jungle animals & named it Where the Wild Things Are...after the kids book. See my avatar...all the animals in it were the kids art.happy to give more details in PM if wanted!more art on back label & kids all signed it. Quite a challenge but fun!
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I made quilts with second graders, but I let them draw and color right on the muslin. Last year I had a friend that had a project with first graders, she traced the pictures on muslin and the kids colored them, then I made them into placemats for each child. The parents loved it.
1st grade colored placemat
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print coloring pages onto your fabric and let them color right on the fabric...cover with craft paper and iron...the wax will set into the fabric with heat and excess wax will draw up into the craft paper
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