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Great discovery!!
I've been at a loss for a few days about my next project (with a few
gifts to make that the recipients will not give many clues as to colors or other preferences) and have been looking at hundreds of magazines and books. I'm sure you've all been in my shoes!!! Anyway, I settled on a pattern from a magazine for a paper pieced star block and found some ideal fabric in my stash for one of the recipients (my youngest DS). I've only paper pieced once at a class last spring, and seemed to have forgotten many little details but I'm plowing along. I did the first few parts of the blocks by tracing on regular copy paper (ugh!) and then remembered that I have a trillion sheets of sandwich wrap paper at my restaurant!!! They are 14-inch squares and just like tracing paper so I drove to the shop (it was my day off) and got some. What a difference!!!! I even made a handy little stack of paper patterns by sewing through them so I didn't have to trace umpteem million by hand (no copier in this house). They seem to hold up well (even while ironing) and tear off easier than the copy paper I was using. Once I practice, practice, practice (getting the fabric pieces to fit is harder than it should be .... even if I cut each piece much bigger than the 1/4 inch extra recommended) I can see that having a giant supply of big piecing paper will be really fun!! I don't know what they cost per each, but I'll look it up. Maybe this is another place for people to get paper since the sheets are flat and easy to store in a pizza box. Annie |
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What a good idea, I can just feel how that paper would work well.
Here's how to get your fabric pieces to fit: fold the paper along the stitching line, creasing it backwards paper-to-paper. On the other side is your previous patch. Place the next patch RST and hold everything up to a strong light. You should be able to see the shadow of the fabric against the outline on the paper. Shift the fabric until it overlaps all around the traced outline. Then flip the paper back in position and stitch. (Or don't flip it back -it's also possible to "paper piece" without sewing through the paper.) Hope this makes sense. Roberta in D "marbles_2" schrieb im Newsbeitrag oups.com... I've been at a loss for a few days about my next project (with a few gifts to make that the recipients will not give many clues as to colors or other preferences) and have been looking at hundreds of magazines and books. I'm sure you've all been in my shoes!!! Anyway, I settled on a pattern from a magazine for a paper pieced star block and found some ideal fabric in my stash for one of the recipients (my youngest DS). I've only paper pieced once at a class last spring, and seemed to have forgotten many little details but I'm plowing along. I did the first few parts of the blocks by tracing on regular copy paper (ugh!) and then remembered that I have a trillion sheets of sandwich wrap paper at my restaurant!!! They are 14-inch squares and just like tracing paper so I drove to the shop (it was my day off) and got some. What a difference!!!! I even made a handy little stack of paper patterns by sewing through them so I didn't have to trace umpteem million by hand (no copier in this house). They seem to hold up well (even while ironing) and tear off easier than the copy paper I was using. Once I practice, practice, practice (getting the fabric pieces to fit is harder than it should be .... even if I cut each piece much bigger than the 1/4 inch extra recommended) I can see that having a giant supply of big piecing paper will be really fun!! I don't know what they cost per each, but I'll look it up. Maybe this is another place for people to get paper since the sheets are flat and easy to store in a pizza box. Annie |
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Just figured out that each sheet costs about one and a half cents. What
a deal!! Maybe I should just start selling paper...... Annie |
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We have a restaurant supply store around here that is open to the
public. They sell those papers in several different sizes and colors. I've been using them for quilting designs for a couple years now. I usually spray them with KK200 to attach to the quilt when I'm stitching. I never thought to use them for paper foundation piecing. I usually print out my paper foundation patterns from EQ5 on vellum paper with my laser printer. LizA. Kent, WA |
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