INKtense Pencils on Fabric | The Blue Wren Project PART ONE
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- Опубліковано 24 бер 2021
- Welcome to PART ONE of the The Blue Wren Project ~ How to use your INKtense Pencils on Fabric. In this FREE two part tutorial, I share with you how I use INKtense pencils with complete control of the movement and bleed of colours. I'll show you how I can get complete control without any fabric mediums or Aloe Vera gels... all you need is the "Magic Fabric" choice.
PART ONE - Introduction to INKtense pencils, choosing the “Magic Fabric" and application techniques. PART TWO - Full painting tutorial for our Blue Wren Project.
INKtense pencils are available on my website in sets of 12, 24 & 36:
helengodden.com/product-categ...
"Magic Fabric” is available by the metre from my website:
helengodden.com/store/calico-...
Here is a link to download and print the Blue Wren eDesign:
drive.google.com/file/d/105VA...
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Thanks for joining me!
You are a great teacher, Helen. I especially like your information about using water with inktense pencils instead of fabric medium.
Thank you for this video! I am an avid applique quilter and have been looking for ways to add more dimension and life to my quilts. This was so informative and better than other videos I've watched!
I’m so glad you talked about the fabric medium with the inktense pencils. I bought a small bottle because I thought I needed to because I’m painting on fabric. I will use water instead. The fabric medium said it has formaldehyde in it! What in the world is that all about?? . Scary. Thank you for your expertise!
I sprayed my muslin with water and hit it with a hot iron and it helped it not pucker when I did my project
Hi Helen, Terry from Hilton Head. Once again, you have provided me with another challenging treat! I have had these pencils for awhile and have never been satisfied with the results. Voila! You come along and explain how really to use them and what results I should achieve. I sincerely thank you for sharing your knowledge. I do not have enough hours in the day to do all the amazing projects you have created for us, but I am one happy camper! I love watching all of your videos over and over. I have learned so much from you. You are extraordinary!!!
Well thanks you Terry. That makes my day! (hey hubby, this wise woman says I am extraordinary!!! he says...I Know!)
I agree!
thanks for pressing forward....and STRONGLY educating the public to use just water.....inktense is such a magnificent medium to work with on fabric and YES WATER is the way to work with!
Thank you SO much. Today I’ll watch again and give it a try. I love the look and really appreciate your lesson.
Hello and thanks for joining. I suggest we just watch together part 1 and 2 and then set your self up to create your own. Don't try to work along with me for the first viewing. Part 1 is 15minutes then a 5 minute break and then part 2. Enjoy
I've watched both parts now, and want to attempt to accomplish the same thing or as close to it as I can. Thanks again.
Wonderful work Helen. I love the 'magic' that happens with these inktense pencils on fabric...thank you for teaching us these techniques. Hugs and good wishes.
Brilliant explanation. Thank You, so looking forward to more projects
Thank you so much for this! I've recently been learning and exploring using Inktense on fabrics and in my quilting and your explanations (and demonstrations) really click for me. I'm primarily a quilter but being able to branch out into something new is very liberating. Very much looking forward to expanding my art quilting possibilities.
Your welcome
Great points. I'm very excited to try this.
Thank you, that was very informative and fun!
Wow, Helen!! You've just popped up on my UA-cam. Why haven't I seen you before? Just love your work. The use of Intense Pencils and vibrant colours to produce your beautiful quilted work has inspired me to have a go. I'm not a quilter but I may have found a new hobby.....even a passion 😂
Thank you! This is so helpful, I’ve had the palette inks and feared using them but would love to. Now I will.
Excellent lesson! Thank you.
So beautiful! Thank you for posting.
Thank you too!
Fantastic explanation of how to use these pencils. I wasn't sure about the purchase, but you have convinced me. So I am definately going to get them now. Many thanks from Spain
Great tutorial! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for sharing, awesome tutorial full of practical advice. Greatly appreciated
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for all the wonderful videos
Glad you like them!
Really interesting and fab tips - I will definitely give this a go on my fabric makes - thank you
Thank you so much for this Helen - I was just watching you and HQ Live, Blue Wren painting and you post these wonderful informative tutorials. I have some Inktense pencils and have already printed out the design - can't wait to get started. You are truly so generous - thankyou.
You are so welcome!
Hi Helen, thank you for the awesome tutorial 😀and the cute project, now I finally know how I can try put the pencils that I bought 2 years ago.
Glad it was helpful!
Great teacher, thank you 😊.
Thank you! 😃
excellent presentation, thank you
Thank You for a great video!
lovely job👍😍
Helen, thank you so very much for this. I got Inktense pencils for Christmas and watched a few videos on using them. I was very disappointed because instead of getting nice beautiful color like you I was only getting pencil strokes and they wouldn’t blend. I now see from your video that is is because of the medium I was using not allowing the color to move. I’m so excited to get my pencils out and try again.
SO GLAD you understand that. That was the message I was trying to get across. Why inhibit the great attributes of these pencils. I see so many peoples work with (awful) coloured in chunks of colour when I know they could be better with LESS process. Thanks you for reassuring me the message got thru to at least one viewer. X
Thank you Helen for these great videos! I kinda wish I’d seen these a month or so ago, when I finally dug out my Inktense pencils and started going thru a process of trial and error. I did learn through that process, but your information would have definitely made it less frustrating 😁. Really appreciate the sharing of your time and knowledge. I too, enjoy the magic of the blending colours naturally and the watercolour effect you can obtain without the fabric medium or aloe and now I have a little more information to help achieve the control I need when using Inktense on fabric thanks to you!!
You are welcome. enjoy
Beautiful
Hello from Atlanta, GA
Good morning....this is mind blowing for me as an artist and a quilt designer! Once everything has been completed....I know you said the pencils are activated by water....Can you wash your finished quilts after using these INKtense Pencils, without ruining and washing away the colours and designs??
Thank you Helen! This is the best education I’ve seen using ink tense on fabric. Thank you ! Thank you!!!
You are welcome. I try to give my best insight into WHY I do things a certain way not just "do it this way for no apparent reason" Wen I ask people why they use Medium, the answer is often...i was told to...but what? . i always search for the easiest way with less fuss and best results. Its all about enjoying the process.
Inktense claims that the colors are permanent on fabric if they are heat set. If you don't prewash your fabric before applying Inktense, when you wash the fabric later - even after heat setting the Inktense, the sizing dissolves in water and you loose your Inktense colors. A hard lesson, especially when you've put time and effort into your design. I learned the hard way. ALWAYS PREWASH YOUR FABRIC to remove the sizing before using Inktense or other media!
Can you still use water once its prewashed I dont want to buy mediums spent enough lol
Yes @lynnval33 once fabric is fully sry then using onltense with water work the same. What activates the colour is the water. Must ensure all ink is activated before finishing otherwise it will reactivate when wet. Even after heat et.
I love your tutorials . I’ve just started using the inktense pencils. Thanks so much!
Hi Helen! Thank you for such a great video. I got my pencils and muslin, traced the design and then worked on the branch first, but the water spread with some of the color outside the lines. The muslin was just purchased yesterday and is unwashed. What am I doing wrong? The water did bead up when I sprinkled it on the fabric. I've even tried spraying it with sizing and ironing that in , but it still spreads. Thank you! Carla in Arizona.
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Hi from sunny So. Florida
Hello. This has been so helpful. I found the fabric that the water beads on. What a difference for when more control is needed. My question is, is there a product to treat fabric with to make it bead up? There is very little fabric that comes that way. The only one I can find is the same as you use, but I want to find a pure white.
Hi Helen thank you for sharing. Will the inktense creations be washable without the fabric medium?
Wow Helen, what great tutorials, I just found your channel this morning and have watched two so far I am so impressed and hope I can now work with these Inktense pencils, I tried yesterday on many different fabrics and had no success at all and I thought it was probably a mistake to order these, but after watching your videos I don't think it was a mistake. I will now attempt creating once again using muslin fabric. I do have a question however how do I transfer your Blue Wren design to the fabric?
Print out the design and trace with a Frixion pen or wash away marker. drive.google.com/file/d/15T52AyDRGR9xzECZMxeugsbB3-Cr5Asp/view?usp=sharing
How colorfast, light fast are these pencils? Thank you!
Again, here is the link to download the Blue Wren FREE design drive.google.com/file/d/105VAz61SRzQ90ORMH6e4Y-QgZ4NhhroL/view?usp=sharing
This is a brilliant video Helen! I've never seen your channel before, but I'm so glad I found you. I was watching another video about these Inktense Pencils and it was soooo boring. The poor lady who made the video was using these incredible pencils in a colouring book, and I just couldn't watch it any more. Whereas you're showing us so many great ways to use them. Are there any pens that you can use on fabric, like the calico you're using here, that won't wash out? Thanks again Helen, from Amanda in Melbourne, Australia ❤️
Sharpie. Or laundry marker Sharpie.
Hello, Love the videos! You make it look fun and actually ‘doable’! What do you use to wet your brushes as you paint? A wet sponge or a glass with water? Does the 12 pack have all the colors needed for the project?
I just have a cup of water next to me. Off camera so i don't knock it over! Often my brush dips into my cuppa tea!
Yes the 12 pack has enough variety for anything and you can of course blend and mix.
@@HelenGoddenQuilts I'm currently doing the Flower Power One project. Can I use the inktense on already quilted pieces? will the needle 'holes' be a problem? It is muslin fabric so it's the fabric you suggest. I'd like to add a bit of color in addition to using colored thread for my FMQ.
I used a 100 cotton muslin (unwashed) and it passed the bead test ! But I still got some blooming. I wonder if adding more starch and pressing it before beginning would help ?
Use less water. Adding starch only adds to the surface. The sizing that comes in the fabric is right the way thru. Less water. If it is blooming, that’s touching wet next to damp. Wait dry time between adjacent areas.
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Thank you Thank you Thank you! Now I know it is my fabric and not me!!! Been trying for weeks to use water color techniques to do inktense pencils!!!! Is you fabric for sale on your website???
Glad my tutorial helped you. I do sell the fabric but it should also be readily available locally. Just go ahead and do the water flick test. Otherwise visit my website helengodden.com/store/calico-muslin-magic-fabric/
Can I just spray starch sizing on Muslim to make my own Magic Fabric?
Help! I bought muslin fabric from both Joann's and quilt shop. Both have a soft feel and water beads sink into fabric. And they are both thin. Could I try to use starch before I get started?
No. it will bleed. the starch you spray on is literally on the top only. the dye will soak in and spread. To paint my method you need the right calico/muslin. Otherwise you will use fabric medium and not achieve the watercolour look that these pencils are offering you. It is readily available at jo annes and walmart. Dont aim for the soft feel, stiff feel is what you want. It must bead. I sell it on my website if you want helengodden.com/store/calico-muslin-magic-fabric/
It is an extremely common low, quality furnishing fabric, usually produced in india and china literally thousands of miles per day.
I blessed some print fabric with water and beaded, so you're saying if beads can be used with inktense without using textile medium or aloe vera. That could open alot of differant fabrics?
yes. if it beads and the beads just sit there for minutes and don't soak in...perfect
Hi Helen I just found your tutorials because I searched Inktense pencils tutorials. Thanks for such an informative and lovely lesson. I'm wondering what paint brush you use to get the color into the fabric thoroughly?
I use taklon synthetic brushes. They are inexpensive yet hold water as well as a quality sable. I sell sets of 5 brushes on my website. helengodden.com/store/brush-set/
Hi your explanation is really very informative and nice , could understand the minute details of working but have a query what needs to be used so that colours become permanent on fabric.
If you wish to launder the item regularly I suggest you substitute Fabric Medium for Water.
@@HelenGoddenQuilts thanku so much Maam
This is great but I was wondering as I have the blocks as well as the pencils would you use the blocks in the same way ta
I suggest you use them lightly in areas, maybe even on their side not end. Otherwise you can wet your brush and use them like a pan paint. Wet brush, stroke brush on the block and then paint. do it a few times and it wets the block for the next 5 minutes or so.
@@HelenGoddenQuilts Thanks Helen, I'll give that a try, lots of things to try and play with
Would this work on a silk wool blend? Or linen silk? I know this is an acrylic ink pencil and hence my concern.
The pencils will certainly work on the different fabrics but there would be no control of bleed or movement of colour as I have demonstrated in the Tutorial.
Just curious as to what would happen if you put down the medium before the color? I don't have the pencils yet so I am unable to try myself.
The medium is a gel and it would stop the colours doing their magic. You will need to push and blend and do the work with a brush rather than letting the colours do magic as i demonstrated in the video. I never waste my time or effort with medium as i just use the right combination of colour with fabric with technique.
I have the derwent Inktense pencils and want to paint on fabric for baby dress printed designs...are these permanent for wash...do I need to iron set it fir how long?and do I need to use aloe vera gel to stop it bleeding...what sets the colour not to wash off thank you never tried this
I suggest you use Fabric medium if you wish to wash the garment.
Is the magic fabric available in the US? Do you ship to the US. I'm thinking it'll be very expensive and take a long time to receive the shipment.
The fabric is unwashed muslin/ calico. You can purchase it from furnishing shops rather than patchwork shops. It needs to be very basic quality. Do the water flick test. The water needs to bead not bleed. I do sell the fabric and post all over the world if you can not source it locally. Postage minimum to USA is $21AU = $15US. You can order quite a bit for $21 postage. The fabric is very inexpensive at $8.50AU/m. = about $6US for 1.25yards the fabric is 1.3 yards wide . Here is a link - helengodden.com/store/calico-muslin-magic-fabric/
I have the intense blocks, can I use them instead of pencil
I suggest you use them lightly in areas, maybe even on their side not end. Otherwise you can wet your brush and use them like a pan paint. Wet brush, stroke brush on the block and then paint. do it a few times and it wets the block for the next 5 minutes or so
Love your tutorial. I washed my muslin fabric already, can I spray starch on it and iron it for it to work?
No. It just won’t be the same. I suggest you purchase again.
Hi Helen, I have a question. I got so much out of watching this video. I cannot find muslin that water beads up on. Well to qualify that, I went to Joann's today, with my little bottle of water, and blessed every bolt they had. Some beaded up for a short time, but then sank and bled into the fabric. I would love to order some from you, but I looked there today also, and the shipping is several times what the fabric is. I was wondering if you knew of any way to make muslin do that? Or do you know of any business in the USA that carries your fabric, or some other fabric what works? Thank you for doing these videos and teaching us so much.
It should be available for you in USA. Try a furnishing shop, more of a thin upholstery lining.
Otherwise I can certainly post to you. The cost of shipping is out of my control. Just remember my prices are Aussie dollar so if it is $20AU shipping it will only cost you about $14US
Just had confirmed from 2 quilters in one of my online classes that they both sourced there magic Muslin/calico from Walmart! Hope that helps.
@@HelenGoddenQuilts Well, that might make a big difference. Thanks so much!
@@HelenGoddenQuilts Oops! looks like I answered Helen's in your line. Sorry. I have a Walmart very close. They got rid of most of their fabrics but I will check. Thanks for getting back to me.
@@HelenGoddenQuilts Well, that might make a big difference. Thanks so much!
I'm guessing that you can't actwash these fabrics though? Because the inktense would wash out?
You can occasionally gently hand wash but not throw in the wash machine every week.
If you don’t wash first it it will shrink later if it needs washing
the process I have demonstrated uses water to activate the colours and that in itself will shrink the fabric.
CAN YOU WASH THESE PIECE WE HAVE PAINTED
Light wash only. I make wall art with my quilting projects
Hi Helen thank you for sharing. Will the inktense creations be washable without the fabric medium?
Yes they are light wash resist say hand wash. However I never wash my wall hangings.