Simple clown applique patttern

My grandmother used to keep (tucked away from the grandchildren) several coloring books she used for quilting design ideas, for appplique, and for embroidery patterns for pillow cases. She also kept sheets of tissue paper with the coloring books to use for tracing paper. The next time you are at a store that has coloring books you might want to pick up a few!

I was hoping to avoid doing that because I would become obsessive with the cute pictures for my great nephews quilt - but I will buy some to give away at Christmas time but make sure I have taken the patterns I would like to keep.

Thanks for your reply.

Did you try Google Images? I have just had a very quick look, and there are some fairly simple ones. To simplify any image, you can trace it and omit some of the detail. Just leave enough to make the image recognisable. I have done it several times. . In message , DiMa writes

I googled clown coloring book. This was the first in the long list of results:

Julia > Hi all,

These clowns are just from the Crayola website, but if you type coloring books in your search engine, it should give you many, many websites.

Pauline Northern California

I did try googling but thought they were all to fuzzy when I enlarged them. Never thought about cutting out the detail. Thanks for suggesting that.

Never thought of adding 'book'. Thank you for the web link, will give it a go.

Thank you, I had completely forgotten about the Crayola website - too long between looking for things to colour in.

You've already gotten some good suggestions but don't forget clip art. The microsoft website has quite a few things I've used for quilts.

Judie in Penfield

Hi Judie,

Thanks for your idea, I have spent along time looking and found some really good ones.

Thank you to everyone who helped me - I am very happy with the results - will post pics of quilt when finished.