How to use Crayons on Fabric For Stitching Projects | Make a Custom Image #slowstitching

I used to do this drawing my own designs on t-shirts 50 years ago. ( Interesting fact: I ended up with a degree in textile design 😎)

The lady who taught me how to quilt, made a quilt this way. She used white cotton fabric squares, and traced simple coloring book pages on them. Then she had her Sunday School kids do the coloring. She heat set the images, added colorful sashing, and quilted it. It was then raffled off in a fundraiser. It's good to learn how simple this is.

Wonderful video. Your presentation is great and I live that there is no canned music. There's too much noise these days. It was nice just hearing you talk without all the background noise❤

65 years ago when I was growing up, we used to do this using prang crayons because back then they were made with bees wax which drew smoothly and melted beautifully. Interesting technique using the lower quality crayons we have now. Thanks

Your artwork looks like you are an artist! Your pumpkin and flowers are beautiful with the shading! This really makes me want to try this technique! My mother was a young child in the late 1920’s. Her grandmother brought her muslin scraps from the cotton mill where she worked. Her grandmother then showed her how to take flower designs from the newspaper and trace them onto the fabric. My mother outlined the drawing with a simple stitch in embroidery floss. She then colored in the flowers with crayons. I don’t know the brand. I guess she could have colored them years later. She did not do any shading. I used to enjoy looking at these scraps of fabric with the pretty flowers. When my mother was in her early 70’s, I asked her what she had planned to make with the flowers. She said she had always wanted to make a quilt with green fabric around the blocks. I took them and did just that! I gave it to her for Mother’s Day about 6 months later! She was shocked and overjoyed! She had it on her bed for a while, but it has hung on my wall for about 30 years. I had a good bit of sewing experience, but it was my first quilt. I hand quilted it. It still looks just like it did then.

I can use crayons rather than paint, so clever! I am adding this technique to my gift making, quilting and slow stitch books ! Thank you, Daniela!

I have a quilt that was my Grandma’s that has flowers colored with crayons on muslin with strips of pink cotton between. I’m almost 70, and my Grandma would be 130, so this is a very old quilt! It is one of my beloved treasures! I can tell you that the colors really hold up over time - and gentle wear.

so clever!!I collect crayola crayon tins so I have loads of crayons. I am thinking this would make a fun quilt for our family reunion, I could precut and put wax paper on cloth and have everyone draw or sign in crayon and then make a quilt that has a piece of all my family !

So many people seemed to already know this, however, I didn't, so thanks very much for sharing. Looking forward to trying it.

I made my first quilt using coloring books, a mix of cotton and polyester knit fabrics and Crayola Crayons after seeing a episode on a sewing show in 1996. My nephew and later my niece loved that quilt and refused to give it up .... I would periodically refresh the coloring on it to keep it bright every couple of years..... Last time I saw that quilt the knit fabrics had shredded and I had to patch the quilt but the kids would not let me throw it away.

Been looking for a way to hide stains on my clothes because I can't seem to be able to get rid of them. This is gonna be fantastic for this purpose, I was trying with fabric paint but they're not as precise as I'd like. Thanks a bunch !

I’ve done a simplified version of this with 8 year olds to teach embroidery. We trace from a coloring book page, color, iron, and then embellish with stem stitch, back stitch, French knots, etc. we do the embroidery in a hoop then gather the extra fabric from the back and they can hang it up!

My dear mother taught me this 73 years ago, though she didn’t have any pigment pens! After my first attempts, which she sewed as dresses for my dolls, we did designs on dish towels and on cloths for the dresser tops. It was so much fun! Gosh, l still love the smell of Crayola Crayons! I did it with my kids, too. Sadly, my granddaughter wasn’t interested at all, she couldn’t sit still for activities other than the tv. Ten years after that her little brother couldn’t pay attention to my brief attempt to explain what l had in mind for us, his mind was on his Xbox and VR. So this simply shows that times change, and not always to the benefit of our abilities and skills.

Wow! I came here for the first time and I’m so impressed! My goodness, what a creation! Beautiful and not expensive! Thank you ❤

When I was 12 years old I used crayons to draw in a piece of fabric, then I used a paper over the drawing and ironed it. Nobody taught me. I'm old now, it was before others did it.

How refreshing to listen to you instruct so clearly. I didn’t have to hear words like actually, like, to be honest…etc. Thank you for a lovely tutorial using wax crayons. 💕

I wasn't anticipating the realistic artistry. impressive. Thank you for the tutorial

You have just opened up a whole world of crafting possibilities for me with this! Thanks for a great tutorial, I can't wait to buy some crayons and get experimenting

I love this video so much! I do embroidery, and I've been looking into ways to color-customize my fabric pieces using watercolors, pastels, colored pencils, etc. Your crayon method is a valuable technique to add to my customization tool-kit, thanks so much for sharing! <3

I had so much trouble thinking of ways to get color on my plain fabrics... i can't believe i never thought of this. Thank you for sharing!