Hints & Tricks

Colouring with Crayons.

People have been colouring quilts & panels for decades. It is a very simple yet very effective technique.

• For best results first iron your fabric onto freezer paper, this stabilizes the fabric & prevents it from stretching.
• Trace your design or use a pre-printed panel.
• Colour your panel with crayons, practice on some scrap fabric first so you get a feel for how hard you need to press.
• When you have finished colouring, peel off the freezer paper & place your fabric between two sheets of baking paper & press with a dry, medium heat iron.

For special effects you can lay your fabric over a textured surface before colouring to add a pattern, but don't attach the freezer paper when doing these. Eg. a Lego base plate, textured paper towel, bubble wrap. Experiment!
If tracing your own designs use a white on white fabric. When you colour you have an instant pattern.
Note: Always use light coloured fabrics, the colour of the crayons disappears into dark fabrics.