Catherine

Actually, there are crayons to use for fabrics. Having a child draw a picture with these on plain white paper, then it is ironed on your prewashed fabric. even tho, I have never done this, I have a package of those crayons and have been wanting to do this for years.

Connie Hadba

Quiltmaker,

I love the picture of the colored pencils. Do you have the pattern for it?

I'm taking your picture to the head of our art department to see if she can help me with it. Her mother-in-law was my quilting teacher, and I think she will get excited about it.

Connie

Connie Hadba

Josie,

Make the quilt blocks using the crayon method. Use a child's coloring book for the block designs. Then use the Fons and Porter crayon sashings between the blocks. What fun!

It would be a great bed quilt for a child up to 8 or 9 (Grade 3).

Better still, get the child and his siblings and friends to color the blocks for you. They would be done in no time and he/she will love the quilt even more; the child had a hand in the making.

Talk to a teacher and ask if it could be done as a class project (25 children in a class will get those blocks done in record time :wink: ). You may have to make 2 quilts; the teacher may want one.

Sorry, it's the teacher coming out of me.

Connie

GramMER

In almsot any bigger city in the USA, you may see school projects using the Crayon Quilt idea displayed in the malls. Plenty of elementary school teachers let their classes make quilt blocks by this method and they can tell a story in a mural or just make a collage for the homeless shelters. I have seen some pretty sophisticated ideas carried out by kids.

Can you imagine how fun it would be for students who got to do these things in class?!?! Knowing my clutz nature, I would be the one burned by the iron. Right now I have blisters on two fingers and my *elbow* of all places!! But I never cross two seams without pressing, pressing, pressing.

I always wondered if the crayon coloring would fade in time, but someone has to try it to see.

GramMER

amma

When you do the actual crayon colored blocks, and you iron the finished block onto the paper, does it take enough of the crayon residue off? I remember a disaster in the dryer and crayon pieces...... or is this a hand wash drip dry quilt?

Becky Robinson

Amma the crayon melts into the paper (use new sheet with every heat set) just make sure you don't have any crayon flakes from the coloring where you don't want them because when you iron to heat set the crayon you will melt the flake into the fabric and it stays for good. I've colored T-shirts with the grandkids and they wash and dry fine. I've notice that the first washing may fade the color but additional washing there is no change. By the way I just use regular crayons not the fabric ones.

amma

Thank you Becky, thought this sounded like fun, but was leery of the wax issues. I will try this with my grandkids, I am always looking for fun projects to do with them.

GramMER

You couldn't prove anything by me. I have only done one and never saw it after it was given to the family whose house burned.

I have seen tons of "finished products" at art shows, quilt displays, and such like at the various malls. Those looked like they might be permanent, but who can say?

GramMER

tndrsroni

Here is the link to purchase the pattern for the colored pencils quilt:
http://www.equiltpatterns.com/quiltpattern.php?cPath=15&products_id=125&sid=0b8a184b412fd8a74c501d9943e015c5.

crazydazy

When our extension club did a crayon quilt, we used simple patterns from a coloring book, ( rabbits, horses, teddy bears, fish etc.) Then you need to use genuine Crayola crayons, not the cheaper ones. After coloring to your satisfaction you place between two pieces of paper toweling and press on Cotton. The excess comes off on the paper and if it doesn't look as dark as you would like, you recolor and then go through the paper towel method once again.

We did this when I was in the Girl Scouts years ago on pot holders for a Mother's Day project and I remember they lasted for years washing in the the wash machine. Getting back to the quilt, we put sashing around each block and made a child's quilt which we sold chances on. crazydazy