I just found a great book called Vintage Animals by Nori Koenig through Design Originals. It has wonderful embroidery patterns from the 1930's I'm guessing. Some are the ones with the cute scottie dog embroidered as an outline and the body is colored in with, the directions say a crayon. So I was wondering what I should use to color the images in since I want to make some pot holders and I don't think the crayons would work well on a surface that's gonna get hot. Also, I'm thinking that putting anything made with the crayon technique might not do well if put in a dryer. Does anyone know how to do this???
-- May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.
The crayon sets after you iron it if I recall correctly. It almost dyes the fabric faintly but enough to give the hue you are embroidering around. I think we did this in the 60's on peasant blouses we embroidered. My age is definitely showing!!!
Ya, the instructions say that you can iron set the crayon, but I wasnt sure if it really worked. Now I guess I'll give it a try. I was thinking about those peasant blouses just last Summer. I almost made some but didnt get around to it. I think next year for sure!! They were so comfortable and cool, ya know temperature wise!! Guess back then they were "cool" to us in another way!!
-- May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.
you can buy special crayons at fabric stores for coloring on fabric.
If you use normal crayons you do have to heat set them buy putting a few paper towls between your drawing and your iron. This will make the colors bleed a little but only if you have colored real dark and heavy. It will also make the crayon colors a litle darker.
Vintage animal embroidery patterns/techniques
Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 10:34:26 AM
