Fabric printer sheets for quilting

With the hope of more Bible coloring pages for our Bible Quilts blog running through my mind, I was thrilled to stumble across quilter Margie Campbell post today. She was sharing instructions with a quilting group on LinkedIn about how to create fabric printer sheets that can be passed through a computer printer to make quilt block pictures.

I can think of several ways this technique could be useful in making Bible quilts.

  1. You can print coloring pages instead of tracing them for the children to color.
  2. You can scan the pictures children color on paper coloring pages. Then print their artwork directly on the fabric, color and all.
  3. You can find Bible pictures and print them on the fabric. You may have some copyright issues to deal with if you go this route.

Margie offered to share her blog post which explains how she makes her own printer fabric using cotton fabric, freezer paper, and two liquids – Bubble Jet Set 2000 and Bubble Jet Set Rinse. Click here to read her blog post.

A big thank you to Margie for sharing this information with us.

 

FaithFunder – an attempt to offer free Bible quilt blocks

Creation Bible Quilt

A crayon-colored Bible quilt made from The Creation Coloring Pages

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to pick and choose from many Bible story pictures for a family Bible quilt project? My goal is to offer such a collection on this web page and to make them free for making quilts or for teaching children about the Bible.

I have designed a FaithFunder project online called Free Coloring Page Downloads For Biblequilts.com to raise the funds so I can pay artists to create the pictures for downloading. Click on this link for more details on the fundraiser.

This link will take you to a tutorial I wrote several months ago on making crayon-colored Bible quilts. This can be a family project or a youth group project as children are able to trace and color the pictures for the quilt.

I like to make my quilts in the honeycomb layout to correspond with my personal business, Honeycomb Adventures Press,LLC. But the coloring page pictures are drawn as nearly square rectangles to make it easier for a beginner to sew the quilt together. Hexagon shapes are also an option.

I will be posting more about making crayon-colored quilts very soon.

Baby Moses Coloring Page Ready

My heart’s desire is to offer free on this blog many Bible story pictures suitable for using to create Bible quilts.

The coloring page for baby Moses is up and ready for download. Moses copyright 2012 by Rosemarie Gillen

All coloring page downloads on BibleQuilts.com are uniform in size to make it easy to pick and choose the ones for your child’s Bible quilt. More pictures to come as funds come in…

 

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Until now I have only been able to offer sets of coloring pages to help people get started making their own Bible quilts. Since I do not have sufficient talent to make the coloring pages myself, I must charge for the coloring page sets so I can pay my illustrators. My pockets are too shallow to pay illustrators up front. For this reason I am adding a PayPal button hoping a few individuals might donate funds to pay for coloring pages that can be posted directly to the website for free downloading. I have begun paying my illustrators $30.00 per coloring pages ready for free downloading from BibleQuilts.com.

All donations will be used to pay artists for coloring page art to be downloaded free from BibleQuilts.com.