Maybe this has been discussed before - but I was wondering if anybody has tried doing a crayon quilt? Any suggestions or tips would be appreciated. Thanks
Judy

I'll have to go google it . I don't know that one. I would guess bright colors in strips like bricks..now I'll go look :roll:

http://www.thepatternco.com/crayon.html You actually color with crayons and some just look like big crayons....... interesting

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_quilting_instructions/article/0,1789,HGTV_3302_2325376,00.html

Alex Anderson had a great show on coloring blocks for a child's quilt. This is an old technique that's a lot of fun.

Judy.....I am familiar with the methods everyone has been talking about here but also know of an actual pattern called "crayon box"...and wondered if that was what you meant... here is a link to the pattern just in case its what you were referring to....

http://quiltville.com/crayonbox.shtml
Crayon Box

http://www.quiltbus.com/images/Crayons20new.jpg

Or did you want to make real crayons?

When you google crayon quilt patterns there are a ton of sites to visit. I may have to color my next quilt. :lol:

Thanks for all the response so far. I was originally thinking of the quilts that are colored using crayons but the other ideas sound good too. You are all too helpful some days. :wink: More ideas than time. Oh well - all any of us have is TIME right?????
Judy

I don't know about coloring on your quilt, but I have seen a quilt called Colored Pencils, but looks like crayons. Here's the photo of it. I save good quilt photos on my hard drive for a slide show.

Here is another one I found online...

http://www.fonsandporter.com/fp/onlineextras/freedesigndownloads/crayon.asp

I have a pattern that came with a ruler I bought once that is for a crayon quilt.. or box of colors.. I forget the exact name. It is three long vertical strips with wide sashing between them. The strips are made up of lots of smaller horizontal strips in many colors. It gives the illusion of a box full of crayons.

Barb C. in MS

I love the colored pencils- that's a really cool quilt.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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=0b8a 184b412fd8a74c501d9943e015c5.

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

I've been reading about this technique. The regular crayons work for 100% cotton fabric, and the fabric crayons are for other fabric. If you use them on 100% cotton, they fade into ugly colors after awhile. (experience speaking here!!)