My children, ages 4 and 8, produce quite a bit of artwork. Page after page, in fact. While not all of the drawings are amazing, they do come up w/ some pretty cute things. Most of them are flowers, butterflies, rainbows and other sorts of little girl things. So ... that got me to wondering. Lately I have been embroidering dishtowels, mostly redwork designs. I have been thinking that if i could trace their drawings and color them in w/ the colors they have chosen and then embroider the outline of the drawings ... it may be just the thing that a grandma would love for Christmas. I really don't want to fill the whole design w/ embroidery because I feel as though that would loose some of the "crayon" character of the pictures. I also don't want to have them draw directly on the towels, I would like to pick and chose the best drawings. Do you have any suggestions on what I could use as the crayon? I'm afraid that paint wont work because it will crack w/ use and I'm afraid that using a dye would be too complicated and messy. Also, I think there are a few grandma's here ... does this sound like a good gift to you? Or should I just table the idea and move on to something else? Thanks,
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16 years ago