Free Motion Quilting with Freezer Paper
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
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Free motion quilting can be tricky to get the hang of when you are just starting out. One thing that can make it easier and less intimidating is drawing or transferring the quilting design or motif onto the quilt top or project.
Ashley Hough shows you how to do this using freezer paper, which eliminates the need to draw directly on the fabric.
Using Freezer Paper
Ashley begins by talking about the type of paper to use. You can use a standard freezer paper or any other kind of wax backed paper. The idea is that when the paper is ‘fused’ to the fabric using medium heat, dry iron - the paper temporarily sticks to the fabric. The paper can then be easily removed, moved, and reused as many times as the paper will still stick to the fabric.
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Ashley then shows how to easily trace a design onto the freezer paper. Because freezer paper is easy to see through, any design or motif can be traced without the need for a lightbox.
Ashley then shows how to cut out the design and fuse it into place on the fabric.
You can then use the design as a way to free motion quilt and trace the outer edges and quilt that shape onto your project, or do simple free motion quilting fill stitches around the design and leave that area un-stitched. While you can always stitch though the paper when quilting as a way to use it as a template, however, if you do so, you will need to rip the paper in order to remove it, making it non-reusable.
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This is brilliant! This has completely rid me of the fear of free-motion quilting. The use of the cut out for creating negative space is mind-blowing! Thank you so much!
I use freezer paper cut into geometric shapes or gentle curved shapes to quilt around using my walking foot with excellent results. Good when you want to quilt but havent yet got fmq in your tool box.
Great idea! I'm looking to start small and this looks like it will be very useful. Thank you! ❤
What a great idea. I use freezer paper for piecing but never thought about using it for the top stitching shapes. I will definitely give this a try. Thanks for sharing!
Good information, but would have been nice to see completed sample results.
Excellent idea!
Wow!! Great idea!
Freezer paper is a great idea, thanks for sharing!
Great info...Thank you.
Thank you I will try your method .
It isn’t wax. Wax would be disastrous on your quilt. Its a plastic layer that doesn’t leave a residue when removed.
Can you explain how you set up the machine to do that quilting.? I keep getting those butter fly wings (I think they are called that) on the back of my quilt. Do you have to change needles or the tension? Thanks for the help
Genius
Why not print from straight from computer or tablet onto freezer paper
What foot are you currently using? It didn’t look like a free motion quilting foot, feed dogs down?
Wax would make a mess of your fabric. This has a plastic side and a paper side.
Great idea! But we got to watch you cut out the entire motif, which was 3/4 the video. And not even a glimpse of what it looked like when complete...sad face
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Don't waste time having people watch you cut.
Template was releasing itself, didn't work too well. Sorry. I felt like I wasted my time, never got to see any results.
We're so sorry to hear this. This is different than the feedback we have heard from others. We appreciate hearing from you!
She kept going back and forth between wax and freezer paper. They are 2 different things. If you used wax paper it would not stick. Freezer paper has a PLASTIC coating and that's what melts a little and sticks. Hope this was helpful.