katykwilt

Remember Girl Scouts and Father's Day? We used white hankies, wrote our name on a folded sheet of paper, cut around it and used it for stencils on those hankies. My favorite was coloring on the stencil and smearing the crayon onto the fabric using an eraser. We set it by dipping the hanking in vinegar water and ironing it. Those colors lasted for years and you know how often hankies get washed. Thank goodness my dad was color blind, one of his was designed with a pink "Dad" on it.

JaniceP

http://www.ehow.com/how_2122596_make-crayola-quilt.html Fun and easy to do!

IdahoSandy

Yes, try www.DickBlick.com as they have Copic colors and they have sets or you can buy individual colors. So buy only what you need for this project.

FroggyinTexas

I have taught several classes on tinting using Crayola crayons, which I believe are the best for the purpose. This is the simplest way to do it: (1) Get the pattern for the art you want on the fabric. You can use hot iron transfers or you can trace the pattern on your fabric. (2) Color the fabric just the way you would if it were paper. If you want texture of some kind, you can put sandpaper or screen wire or something else textured under the fabric and color over it. (3) When you get through with your coloring, put the fabric face down on a white paper towel or on a sheet of copy paper and iron the back of the picture. When you see the color come through--about 2 seconds, you have set the Crayola. (4) If the design is not dark enough, color it again and iron again, always face down on clean paper towel or copy paper. You can always make it darker--you can't make it lighter, so you may want to experiment. (5) There are at least two books devoted to this craft. One is Ladies of Leisure: Vintage Quilts, Linens and More by Suzanne McNeill and the other is Vintage Tinted Linens and Quilts by Brenna Hopkins and Nori Koenig. I bought them from Design Originals:Can Do Crafts. www.d-originals.com or write the company at 2325 Cullen Street, Ft. Worth, Texas 76107. I hope this helps. froggyintexas

wakrueger

I don't know if this will help but I thought it looked very interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJN41E2Akto

grammyBev

Make sure you use another fabric on top of the crayon when you use the iron to heat set it .

nancia

i use acrylic fabric paints-- just like painting a picture, on fabric. and i use sharpie fabric stains, and sharpie permanent markers sprayed with isopropyl alcohol. i also use procion dyes for dyeing an overall color on larger pieces of fabric. crayons can be melted and painted on as a dye resist--similar to batiking.

misseva

I made a quilt using blocks colored by my grandchildren and it's washed a lot. It's been approx. 10 years - still going strong. They just used their regular Crayola crayons. I heat set them.