crayons
 

Has anyone used crayons to color a quilt? Thought there a piece on doing this but Im unable to find it
Thank you

Here is an article on it: http://quiltbug.com/articles/crayon-quilts.htm and here is another one: http://www.thepatternco.com/crayon.html

I've made several quilts with this process. Several years ago I found a print that had outline story book characters - had two grand daughters color those pictures - they will be made into baby quilts for their first babies - hope it will be a while yet as they are only 15 and 11!

I bought a book called "Creative Quilts from your Crayon Box" by Terrie Lynn Kygar. I haven't tried it yet, but there are some amazing patterns in this book.

You can check it out on amazon and look inside. It is a melt and blend method. I would love to hear from anyone who has tried this method.

Thank you for the info Tartan sound like fun!!!!

There is a beautiful bird on the tutorial section.

I haven't used crayons on a quilt, but did do several t-shirts with my daughter's Girl Scout troop. We took pages from coloring books, traced the design with Sharpie waterproof pens, colored with crayons, ironed the t-shirts on layers of newspaper covered with plain papertowels to melt away the wax, and were done. It was quick and easy.

Many years ago, Benertex did a demo on this process at the quilt show in Paducah. They sold the T-shirts with the printed cat on it and gave you the crayons and instructions. Mine is still neatly folded in a drawer because I've been "afraid" of ruining it. Hmmm, maybe I should get it out again!

i have done a few ...the sharpie idea is a good thing ...if you are using color book pages ...so you get some depth...i use regular crayons and heat set ....cover with old pillow case so i don't get crayon on the iron ....