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Crabapple hill do some wonderful tutorial videos for wax crayon colouring. I completed one of their free patterns and it came out really well. You just use ordinary, crayola crayons.

suern3

I have used Crabapple Hill's patterns and instructions for crayon tinting on embroidery pieces. Meg Hawkey, Crabapple Hill, has tutorials on YouTube for crayon tinting. It is quite simple to do and I like the soft, subtle look it gives. Crabapple Hill has lately started using Intense ink pencils with their designs and there are instruction for those, also. Haven't tried that yet. A little more work than I want to do.

oreo1912

I have washed out the sizing, used cotton fabric and heat set the crayons and used fabric medium but they still seem to fade a lot when washed. The Inktense ink pencils work better but they do run even if you use the outliner and they are expensive and you use fabric medium on them as well and colors are limited. Wish I could get crayons to be more permanent.

Quiltlady330

The girls that I know who do this type of fabric coloring suggest putting a very very fine grade of sandpaper underneath the cloth being colored. It gives an easier time of working the color onto your fabric without it slipping around and textures a little as well. Seems to work for them. They all use fabric crayons.

ILoveToQuilt

Thanks for all the comments. I don't have a specific project in mind at this time, but thank you all for the information and links.

Tish05

My mother was part of a quilt group that had hand-quilted a child's quilt that had been coloured pictures from a kid's Christmas colouring book and was interested in learning the technique so we took a class. We coloured on fabric with Crayola wax crayons, and as someone else said, the white crayon is critical so we bought a box of only white crayons, along with the regular box with many colours. I found that I didn't like all of the pastel look that you get when you put the white on first so sometimes I colour the area with white, and then my chosen colour. I made up colour samples of the "faded" colour that is coloured over the white, and the colour at it's full value so when I'm trying to decide what colour to use, I look at my sample to help me choose. I'm working on a series of cat pictures. I found an adult colouring book with artwork from Marjorie Sarnat. I trace the pictures I like on my fabric with a size 05 pigma pen so it doesn't run. I colour in areas, then melt the wax crayon with a low iron with paper towel to take up the extra wax. When you colour with the white, then the other colour over top, the iron melts them together. It's a lot of fun, although I go through a lot of paper towels Once I've coloured the picture, I outline again with a pigma pen so that you get a clear view of the image, including colouring in the pupil of the cat's eyes. Here is a picture of one of the blocks I've completed. I have six more to go before I try to figure out what I'm going to do with them.

ILoveToQuilt

Your cat is adorable! Thanks for the information.