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good tip. Thanks
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Originally Posted by Bobbinchick
:-D :-D :-D I have a great tip that I thought of a couple days ago. If you use regular printer paper for foundation piecing and find it a little harder to take it off the block when you are done. Try this.... Get a small bowl or a cup and put a little water in it. Then get a q-tip and dip it in the water and dap some water on the stitches on the paper and it will soften it so it makes it much easir to carefully take off that paper. And it doesn't pull on the threads. This is a great way to test color to see if it runs. Just sew two scraps together as if making a block a light and a dark color and then do the q-tip trick and if the color runs, you will know it right away. Then you will know not to use the running color in your quilt. This trick is great for those little tiny pieces of paper you have to take off. Have a great day, Huggies, Fay
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I fold the paper both ways on the sew lines before I sew -- the paper has already been weakened and tears off easily. Also if you gently pull on the diagonal. it rips open the paper
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Will remember this tip. Thank you
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Thanks for the great tips, I will certainly use them in color testing my fabric for any project, and the machine applique tip using copy paper.
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I will have to try that! Thanks.
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Sounds good to me.
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I got tired of tearing all that paper off so I started folding on the line and cutting previous fabric 1/4" away from line. That way no stitches are through the paper and no tearing is involved. Just be careful about pulling bias edges.
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Great tip! Thanks for saving me alot of time and bad words :-)
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Your new tip was a Q tip. I couldn't resist. Good tip.
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