Trisa ... Just plan color crayons are used and you put paper on the ironing board before laying the colored fabric on and paper towels over that so the iron is kept clean too. I'll find a picture of some quilt we all did years ago and then I quilted about five of them, I've got another one that I'm getting ready to quilt. I use a lot of sulky, Rayons and glitzy threads, some of the ladies used beads to decorate the insides of the flowers. It was fun and they all were a bit different.