Crafts Unleashed

After working with these Fabrico Fabric Markers for a kids’ craft project recently, I felt it best to give more detailed info about how these markers work on various surfaces. It was a fun experiment!

• Fabric Markers on canvas bucket hats:

The markers worked wonderfully on this product! The raw canvas soaked up the juicy marker ink very nicely. My 2-year-old even pounded the life out of the markers, making strong dots — that was the only time when the marker ink made its way through the thick canvas material.

Fabric Markers on canvas bucket hat

• Fabric Markers on “non woven” canvas mini tote bags:

The markers did not work as well on this product. These mini tote bags are not real canvas material (Consumer Crafts calls this material out as “non woven”). This “non woven” tote material is not absorbent, I’ve realized, and makes the marker ink bead a bit on its surface. Since the ink doesn’t stay on the surface, it also comes off on your hands if you happen to make contact. Messy. If working on a tote bag with these markers, I definitely recommend one of Consumer Crafts’ natural woven tote bags instead. I will probably try this in the future — it would make a fun craft (personally I like working on a flat surface, so a nice flat tote bag makes things easy that way)!

Fabric Markers on non woven canvas tote

• Fabric Markers on quilting fabric:

The possibilities are endless when it comes to using these markers as an accent tool for quilting and other fabric projects. I used a scrap piece of fabric to experiment with and was happy to see the markers worked quite well on such a thin material. They didn’t even bleed through! I was able to get good detail with the “fine tip” end of the marker, and the “brush” end of the marker did well to fill in shapes. It was like working on paper! I was able to transform this folk-like pattern into something more whimsical. A great way to add your own personal, artistic touch to fabric projects!

BEFORE and AFTER - quilting fabric experiment

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