First trace the quilting pattern onto the Press'n Seal with a fine tip permenant marker such as Pigma Pen size .05 and let the ink dry.
Then place this traced pattern onto the quilt in the desired location and finger press in place. Lower the feed dogs on your machine and use a darning foot to free motion quilt along all the lines of the quilting pattern.
After all the stitching has been finished; tear away the Press'n Seal leaving only the stitched quilting. In this photo I have started to remove some of the Press'n Seal. I use my fingernail to scratch at the Press'n Seal or sometimes I use tweezers to help pull off the pieces of the Press'n Seal.
Please leave me a comment if you find this technique helpful. Let me know if there is another technique you would like to see featured.
This post is a followup to my Felted Wool Applique tutorial posted on June 9, 2011 at http://stashmanicure.blogspot.com This was a very popular tutorial with 133 comments posted so far. Thanks everyone!
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I do this same thing, but I use white tissue paper. You get a ton of it for 88 cents and it tears away nicely behold it is not clear, it IS translucent enough to place appropriately on your quilt.....but this is a neat idea too!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful felted wool quilt. Thanks for sharing you ideas.
ReplyDeleteTry using the shop vac or the attachment hose of your vacuum to remove the paper - I use my vac hose with no attachments to remove stray threads and quilting paper (with the design traced) from my quilt top before rolling the quilt to the next section on the long arm frame. I have the ruler base on my machine so there's a little table, I use the edge of the vac hose to abrade the paper slightly and break the paper apart at the needle perforations, then use the vac on it. Sucks that paper right off the quilt. I still need to tweeze some little bits out with a fine tipped tweezers. I vac, tweeze, vac again and go over the quilt one more time, might be a couple more pieces that need tweezed away. But still way faster than tearing the paper away by hand.
ReplyDeleteLOVE this idea! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteDoesn't it leave a bit of black from the ink under your stitches. Can you get it ALL out?
ReplyDeleteEsse papel é tipo um papel manteiga????ou wax paper?
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I tried this but am having trouble getting it off over top of the stitches, any suggestions?
ReplyDeleteGoing to try this today, thanks for taking the time to post.
ReplyDeleteInteresting technique. I will be looking for Press and Seal on my next trip to the grocery store. I like the idea of it holding fast to the fabric.
ReplyDeleteI hand stitch my quilts and wonder if this would work for removing the press and seal paper without damaging any stitches?
ReplyDeleteI tried this long ago with my longarm and had two problems...
ReplyDelete1. some of the ink transferred to the quilt (I think this was due to how hot the needle gets).
2. It was a real pain in the patootie to get rid of all of the press and seal after quilting. I sat there with a pair of tweezers for a very long time.
It may work better with a domestic sewing machine.
Haven't tried it yet; but will! Thanks for posting.
ReplyDeleteI have used this in the past with great success. I try to use a marker just a couple of shades darker than the fabric because the black does migrate sometimes. I also discovered by accident that hovering a hot iron close to the surface - or on if you are brave ) actually dissolves the last of the plastic and there don't seem to be any fumes to deal with either. A great method to add to you marking repertoire.
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