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Fabric Paint
Painter’s Checklist
suRFACE
18" x 22" (46 x 56cm) piece of Kona cloth or permanent-press muslin
PALETTE
PRISMACOLOR PREMIER COLORED PENCILS
Apple Green Canary Yellow Cool Grey 20% Cool Grey 50% Cool Grey 70% Dark Brown Grass Green Lilac
Orange
Parma Violet Sienna Brown Spring Green Terra Cotta
True Green Violet
Warm Grey 90%
Olive Green
PRANG COLORED PENCILS Black
Yellow
BRusHEs
SCHARFF BRUSHES
Series 310PC nos. 4 & 6 white nylon rounds
suPPLiEs
Basic painting supplies (page 127)
Cotton swabs
DecoArt SoSoft Transparent Fabric Medium Frame 12" x 14" (30.5 x 35.5cm)
Freezer paper
Paper towels
Pencil
Sakura IDenti-pen (black)
Sakura Pigma Micron pens, 005 and 01 Small lid from a medicine or vitamin bottle
souRCEs
n Fabric may be purchased at Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores, or wherever you usually purchase fabric.
n I found the frame at a garage sale; it had a broken mirror in it.
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After reading in a quilt magazine how they used fabric pens and pencils on fabric to decorate quilts, I thought, “with all the pencils and pens I have, I
should be able to do this without buying new pencils and then not liking them.” I have painted on fabric for years and have done a few colored pencil and pen-and-ink pictures. So I started mixing things together and found that DecoArt SoSoft Transparent Fabric Medium would melt some brands of colored pencils. I discovered that Prismacolor and Prang were two brands that would work. I also tried numerous pens; some would bleed too much and some were not per- manent after washing the fabric, so this is my solution.
The first shirt I did was a Christmas shirt with Santa, reindeer, and snowmen. When I wore it, everyone wanted to know what I used because it was so soft. When I told them colored pencils they all asked “it’s washable?” I have taught that Christmas shirt at local chapters, and hope to teach a Texas Snowmen and Roadside Flowers workshop at future classes and conventions.
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