kwiltkrazy

I believe freezer paper is for hand applique to take the place of needle turn. Wonder under is for machine applique.

Lois-nounoe

I like to use the Freezer Paper ironed onto the wrong side of my fabric. I trim the fabric about 1/4 inch from the edge of the design and pin to my quilt top. I then needle turn under the paper and invisible stitch the applique on. I can then either remove the paper when I am almost done stitching or cut a small slip in the back of the applique and pull out the paper that way. Fusible is fine as long as it is the lighter weight. Otherwise it makes the design stiff.

travlr99

I recently tried to buy freezer paper at the grocery store. It was "new" with plastic on the back of it. How do you iron this??? I believe Reynolds makes it. It even had a picture of an applique piece on the box. Ended up going to a local butcher shop and bought 3 feet from them!

smitty

Cut right through the whole roll of freezer paper (with a bandsaw)
cut into 3", 6", 9".(or whatever size you would use the most ) then you do not have to fight the whole roll of
paper when you need small pieces. saves lots of waste.

Lois-nounoe

You fuse the plastic side to your fabric then cut around your pattern. Some people lay the paper side down and then iron the seam allance to the plastic side by just folding over and ironing on the fabric to fuse. With the first method just remember to reverse your pattern.

rustqlts

Here ya go:

C. Jenkins 8.5 X 11 Freezer Paper Sheets

It really saves me a lot of time....

rustqlts

same song second verse--here's the link:

http://www.cjenkinscompany.com/

rusty

craftybear

thanks for the link

Calif Jane

Layer two sheets of freezer paper and iron them together with the shiny side down on both sheets. Yes, this will stick to your ironing board, but peel it up while it is still warm. It will not mess up your ironing board! Trace your applique pattern onto the dull side of a single sheet of freezer paper. Then lay the this sheet on top of the other two, shiny side down. You will have three layers of freezer paper with your traced pattern on top. Cut out your applique patterns to use as templates. They are sturdy, and can be used over and over again---they will adhere to your fabric many times. Place the templates on the wrong side of the fabric , press with a warm iron, then cut out 1/8th to 1/4th inch from the template.
Brush a weak solution of starch on the fabric to be turned, and press it to the freezer paper. When complete turn it over and inspect for wrinkles and press again. Remove the freezer paper template and glue the applique piece to your background.

dlf0122quilting

When you use freezer paper, copy pattern pieces to shiny side of freezer paper with a sharpie pen, press the sheet of patterns down on a mat, remove it, press a second piece down on a mat and remove it. Let cool. Now press the plain sheet back down on the pressing mat, place pattern sheet down on top of the first sheet and press to the first sheet. By pressing the sheets separately, you will not get bubbles in your freezer paper templates. Next, cut out pattern pieces on drawn lines. Press pattern pieces to the back of the fabric, cut around pattern pieces leaving about 1/4" or a little less around each piece. Apply starch to excess fabric and press over templates. Remove freezer paper after ironing and apply to background fabric by machine or by hand.