Melted Crayon Workshop with Terrie Kygar

Meet Terrie Kygar and her daughter Kristy!! They were our gracious teachers yesterday during our Melted Crayon Workshop our guild hosted.

Terrie is the author of "Creative Quilts From Your Crayon Box". I highly suggest you purchase this book if you are interested in learning her art form!! I bought mine today :^) You can find it on Amazon.com and at Grandma's attic in Dallas, Oregon. http://www.grandmasatticquilting.com/

We had 8 participants from the Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild participating today starting at 10:00am and going until 3 pm. The day went by so fast as we were having a fabulous time!!!

For more photos of this workshop, check out Megan's blog at  http://spartanbabe.blogspot.com/2012/10/melted-crayon-workshop-with-terrie-kygar.html

So this is how our day went:

We started with setting up our areas and then jumping right in designing a pear with melted crayons.

start with your basic pear shape on fused fabric

heat surface-non stick pressing sheet and pear

apply color-melted crayon

shade with more melted crayon

my pear in the works

class pears done!!

Then on to designing a leaf!!

adding color

adding shading with a pencil

Megan and Ginger busy working on their projects

                  Now I am going to show you some of Terrie's quilts that she brought for us to enjoy!!

This one is the cover for her book!!!

Now on to the flowers!! These were fun and I love all the different flowers that were created by our group!!

getting ready to apply more color

adding some shading to the center of the flower

And done!! Gorgeous!!!

                                                      This is the progression of my flower!!

and done!!

                                      And now lets see what the others were doing with their flowers :^)

Linda

Cindy

Megan

Jean had already taken the class, so she is working on another melted crayon quilt project!!

JoAnn

Peggy

Arline

            Now we are on to a hummingbird!! WOW!! I cannot believe all that we learned in one day!!

beginning with the first color

applying more color

now coloring in the beak

So this is what I started with on my hummingbird

and done!! :^)

                                                Here are the class projects done!! Amazing!!

And lastly, we learned how to make another kind of flower! Lots of potential design with this one using layered petals!!

a partial flower, but beautiful!!

and here are my results of a really fun day designing with melted crayons.

Thank-you to Terrie and Kristy!! We had such fun with your technique and I am planning on doing much more with it!!! I highly recommend this workshop and/or book to everyone who wants to learn a new and fun way to design or embellish quilts!!

Take care everyone, Happy Quilting, and keep those scissors sharp!!! Martha