Saturday, February 18, 2017

Recently I have been working with Spirograph. Yes, the spirograph from the 60s, and something I had as a kid.  I have a few videos on YouTube about Spirograph and PTSD, and today I added a video about using a spirograph design to make your own quilt motifs.  All the videos can be seen at this Playlist.

What I wasn't sure of when I first made the video was how well the transfer pencil would wash out. Below are photos of the test sample I did:

This first photo is the design transferred to fabric. In this case I used muslin.


 Below is the design, hand-quilted with black and purple threads, with much of the pink transfer showing.


After quilting, I washed the sample in very warm soapy water.


As you can see, all of the pink transfer washed out.


Below is the sample design after pressing. This is done as a "rag quilt" block, but it could be used in most quilting applications, anywhere that a design can be ironed on.



 UPDATE: I am only getting one use out of each design drawn with the Aunt Martha's pencil, meaning it has to be gone over with the pencil before transferring again.  I am looking at other transfer pencils for multiple use of one design. Below are some photos showing how I also used this same design to transfer onto cross stitch fabric.  I did re-trace the design with the transfer pencil in-between each transfer.  One sample cloth has been tea dyed.





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