Add Color to Black and White Fabric for a Stained-Glass Effect

Hi, I'm Ali. Er, and I'm here to show you a quick trick for getting black and white fabric to look like stained glass fabric. So what you do is you find uh a black and white cotton, which is what I have that's printed with a, a nice design that's not got too much white because you're gonna be coloring it in. So I started with this print which I really love and I wanted to make it look like a stained glass uh fabric. So the first thing I did was some test samples and I tried different mediums to get pigment onto my fabric.

I tried uh colored pencil. I tried uh a kind of a liquid dye and this is very saturated and great, but it took too long for me. Sorry. Um I like it but it was, it was too much work. I tried uh pastel which is kind of cool.

It was fast but not quite the effect I wanted. And then I tried markers, just plain old sharpie markers and I liked the sharpies. So after deciding which one I wanted to use, I made a sample just with the sharpie and I think it looks, it looks pretty great. So then I thought how is it gonna look quilted up? So I did another one and I actually quilted around all the little designs and, um, back to uh, back to envelope style, you can't see the quilting, but it's nicely finished.

Great coaster and I wanna show you how I did that. So, um, basically I've got it mostly done here and I'm just, I'm just using sharpie sharpies, you know, coloring in the, the white and it's kind of forgiving because if you go outside the lines, it's into black fabric and it doesn't really show up. So, um I think this is the right blue. Yeah, so just coloring away, I, I do this when I'm watching uh baseball with my husband. You know, I, I gotta keep my hands busy and I don't wanna think too hard because I'm actually interested in the game.

So, um this is a great kind of down time activity if you wanna keep making if you wanna keep creating. So this is pretty much all there is to it. You're coloring in the lines, I'll just put in one more piece of color here. You can see how fast that goes on. I'm not having to be super careful like that.

So then I just wanna show you if you're willing to put the time in coloring, you can get something like this where it's really kind of glowing. It's very fun. And for the center, the way I got the center was I took a design from a coloring book and I uh resized it so that it fit into this uh repeat of my, of my pattern, you know, the patterns in my fabric. So it's the right size. And instead of using markers, I just tried an experiment and I used pastel chalk and pastel pencils to color it in after I had printed my design on cotton fabric.

And so I, I printed it on fabric and then I colored it and then I really brushed it off and I, he set it with an iron just to see if the pastel would work. And um I'm not losing any more color. So that was a nice option for me. So I colored it and then I sewed it down with just a machine zig zag around the edge of the circle and then I just quilted around the circles. Um You can see maybe you can see on the back there isn't very, no, I don't think you can see there's, there's not much sewing, but there was enough quilting to, to kind of turn it into a quilt.

So I think you would really enjoy just finding some black and white fabric and getting out your sharpies and putting together a fun little project.