Using crayons and markers to draw on fabric block....

here is some great info on crayon quilts:

http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...t-t179164.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...t-t178991.html


http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...s-t133695.html

http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...s-t145643.html

just get a white sheet at the thrift store for $2.00 or so, iron freezer paper on the back of the square you cut out for practice, and put the
material over a coloring book picture or quilt pattern, or what ever, and trace the edges witha water color pencil. Then color away. That's it. When you finish coloring, heat set it.
You're done. Your block is now finished

OK! I found the first test piece! A lime green fleece pullover had eaten it.

The colors stayed on both pieces of fabric. The first was pre-washed and the other not.

You can check out the process from start to finish here: http://toggpine.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/crayon-play/

Thanks folks for giving me something to blog about today. You all are inspiring at so many levels! Love the eagle block!

Happy coloring & quilting!
Cathy

Wow! That snowman quilt is darling! I'm impressed with the variation of depth in the colors. It's so cool to know that was all done with Crayola crayons. I don't know about you but coloring was one of my absolute favorite activities as a kid. I would bet that'd be the case for most of us quilters.
Jingleme- thanks for posting all the links.

The next task is finding the images. The snowmen pictures look like they're a set. Not only is the coloring exceptional on the snowmen quilt but it works so well because the images are obviously done by the same artist. Do you think she got her images from a coloring book? That's the only place I could think of where we might find images that are similar to one another. Any ideas?

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Originally Posted by rebeccas-sewing

I don't know about you but coloring was one of my absolute favorite activities as a kid.

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When I had my knees replaced I found that coloring was one of the things that got me through the day. I picked up some of those 5x7 multipage coloring books for the 'kids' but found myself hogging them. I have several that I filled - one page at a time, flip and do the next, flip . . . love to color. Love anything having to do with color!! I think I may have been a champion colorer in my younger days, too!!

Why not have them draw/color a picture on regular size copy paper for now. Then when you can get to a Hobby Lobby, Michael's or Joann's buy some printable fabric "paper" and then copy the pictures onto the printable fabric and use those in a quilt. That way you won't have to worry about setting the crayons. I have never used the printable fabric, only seen it used on quilting shows on tv.

Good luck and have fun.

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Originally Posted by rebeccas-sewing

The next task is finding the images. The snowmen pictures look like they're a set. Not only is the coloring exceptional on the snowmen quilt but it works so well because the images are obviously done by the same artist. Do you think she got her images from a coloring book? That's the only place I could think of where we might find images that are similar to one another. Any ideas?

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"The individual design are by Jan Way who does design for painting."

She had an artist draw them for her.

I love to collect coloring books.
This is the page I was looking for yesterday... a cute idea using tracings from a coloring book & coloring them with crayons
or fabric markers or whatever you want

http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...t133695-8.html