spinnergs

The only thing they haven't mentioned is to use a tighter weave fabric (better quality) for vivid prints. It is best to have a printer that prints straight shot instead of folding the paper around a roller.

AliKat

Yes, you can. I usually use a pale color of all cotton material and prewash it without any fabric softener or additives ... just plain ordinarily wash it. The I iron it, again with no starch, Best Press, or other. I use my Word program on my PC to do the lettering. I choose a font I like and that goes with the quilt style. If I want a design from the fabric, I can scan it into my computer and past it somewhere near the lettering.

Having done all that I cut a piece of freezer paper and iron it onto the backside of the material [shiny side to the back of the label material. Then I trim the deges and re-iron the leading edge and put it through my INK JET printer. Once printed I let it dry a bit and then iron it again.

I know my pictures are less than desired but hope they help ... if I did it correctly in posting them.

charmy

I have bought the fabric sheets and printed photo's on them I got mine at Hobby Lobby but think Walmart carries them fabric sheets to. I have never tried doing it on my own fabric but after reading all this info I will have to.

ReeneeD

where do I find bubble jet?

AliKat

I never used the Bubble Jet and all went well.

earlylace

I found bubble jet on ebay for around $20 with free shipping.

patricej

unless you are getting more than one of the big bottles, $20 is much too high a price for Bubble Jet Set.

http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/3446-AA.shtml (under $16 for the large bottle - regular formula; this page also includes a lot of information about the product and how to use it.)

direct from the manufacturer, for about the same price. here, you will also find the special formula for HP printers. it's worth the extra $1 per bottle to get the special formula if you have an HP printer. page also includes a lot of information. you will also find fabrics here especially woven for printing. they're a bit pricey but you know they'll perform well.

you'll also find pretreated fabrics by the yard and in packs already fused to paper for printing. i would not trust any other manufacturer of pretreated fabric. that isn't to say there aren't other good brands on the market. it's only that i, personally, haven't found any other pretreated packs that use fabric i'd consider of sufficient quality.
http://www.softexpressions.com/softw...ns/bubjet.html

note: Kona Prepared For Dyeing, although a fine fabric, did not give great results when i used it for printing. i got decent results, but not vivid prints. i also found it hard to fuse it completely to freezer paper, so it didn't always move smoothly through the printer. i had to toss about a third of my prints because of smudging and distortion.

my Canon printer, which uses pigment inks, provides much nicer prints than does my HP. after washing, the difference is even more noticeable.

lucylockett

Very interesting topic. Thank to all of you for sharing your experiences and knowledge. I definately will continue to watch this topic since this project is on my to do list!

Oklahoma Suzie

I have never done this before. I will be watching.

janet conn

Hi, just wanted to tell you of my printing on cloth. We used the ribbons from my sisters funeral baskets for the designs. I printed off a picture of my sister and used it for the center of the block.A nice memo for the grand children.