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Get yourself a big box of Crayola Crayons and bring out the
artist within! Terrie Linn Kygar's Melt-n-Blend technique for
applique quilts involves blending hot melted crayons onto hot
fabric. Terrie cuts out her fabric appliques and fuses them onto
a pressing sheet first, then melts puddles of crayon wax right on
the pressing sheet to one side of the motif. A paper napkin
folded to a point is dipped into the wax, then Terrie begins
coloring and shading her appliques. It's not rocket science, but
it does take practice.
"I have taught this technique to eight year olds and eighty year
olds," Terrie writes in her introduction to the book. "I haven't
had a single student who couldn't learn the Melt-n-Blend
technique." Besides crayons, Terrie uses colored pencils and
black Pigma pens to shade, outline, and add detail. The results
are gorgeous, with quilt designs that look like watercolor
paintings. The book contains seven inspirational applique
projects consisting of fruit and flower motifs. If you enjoy
coloring and shading and are looking for something different, you
might want to give this method a try. --The Quilter magazine
It's time for new fun with an old favorite medium, previously
used in our childhood, wax crayons! Using the new Melt-n-Blend
technique, anyone can create beautiful applique designs with a
hand painted look that brings quilts to life. Terrie explains how
to tint and shade luscious fruits, beautiful blossoms and more,
using crayons, colored pencils and markers. There are 7 inspiring
projects of increasing complexity to choose from, with something
to delight every skill level and the designs will be personal to
you every time. This is an interesting idea and could be
amalgamated into pieced projects as feature. --Fabrications
magazine
We recently experimented with crayon techniques in the Popular
Patchwork forum and I do wish we'd had the benefit of this great
book to aid us. Terrie's techniques uses nothing more than
ordinary Crayola wax crayons (not fabric crayons), fusible web
and paper napkins to create gorgeous fruit, flowers, birds and
butterflies with delightful jewel-like colours and a hand-painted
look. She uses ordinary white fabric or pale batiks as a base and
then builds up the wax coloured layer with an easy melt and blend
method. Terrie gives excellent instructions on how to achieve
this effect and cls to have taught everyone from children to
grandparents to create this type of appliqué motif successfully.
She has no problems with washing the resulting items either! This
is a very interesting and well thought out, and well presented,
process; this would be a great book for those who feel that their
artistic skills may be limited. --Popular Patchwork magazine
We recently experimented with crayon techniques in the Popular
Patchwork forum and I do wish we'd had the benefit of this great
book to aid us. Terrie's techniques uses nothing more than
ordinary Crayola wax crayons (not fabric crayons), fusible web
and paper napkins to create gorgeous fruit, flowers, birds and
butterflies with delightful jewel-like colours and a hand-painted
look. She uses ordinary white fabric or pale batiks as a base and
then builds up the wax coloured layer with an easy melt and blend
method. Terrie gives excellent instructions on how to achieve
this effect and cls to have taught everyone from children to
grandparents to create this type of appliqué motif successfully.
She has no problems with washing the resulting items either! This
is a very interesting and well thought out, and well presented,
process; this would be a great book for those who feel that their
artistic skills may be limited. --Popular Patchwork magazine
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