Originally Posted by Barb M

Hey sweetheart! How are you??? :) I havent seen you in so long, mostly i have trouble keeping up with the forum, so glad to see you :) Anyways, your project looks wonderful! Guess what Henry, i tried fabric colouring with crayons on a scrap of fabric a few weeks ago, just to see how it would work. What i did, was i ironed a piece of freezer paper to the back of the fabric, to make the fabric stay still while you colour. I did several test places on my fabric, and what i found out was this. If you colour lightly, the colour will fade a lot when you wash it, but the areas that i coloured really hard, just faded a tiny bit. So colour firmer than you want it to look when it's finished. I then heat set it, then i took it to the sink and poured straight bleach and hot water on it, and the one that was coloured firm remained brilliant! So you dont even have to worry bout washing in cold water, so long as you colour it very firm...that's looking gorgeous Henry :)

PS, oh yes and dont forget, when you heat set it, put some paper towel over the fabric, and the towel will absorb the wax :)