Removing Paper
#51
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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I use some very old office paper that we used to call onion skin. It is thin paper. I can't run it through the copier so have to hand copy the pattern on. But...it hasn't been too difficult to remove the paper. I don't even know if it is still available for purchase. I got it when our office had to move to smaller space and got rid of a lot of old stuff. I was 'happy' to help them out by taking the onion skin and a few other things that work beautifully for crafts.
#52
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Missouri
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Watched a Fons and Porter on tv the other day they folded and ran their fingernail along the seam line held one side and it came off real easy. Now I havent tried this only watched them do it, seems sometimes when you watch them do it and me doing it is a whole new story
#53
I make all sorts of things that aren't meant to be handled or handled very much (think potholders, mug rugs, and wall hangings), as well as things like baby quilts that get more use. In every case, I PP onto the lightest non-woven stabilizer/interfacing I can find and then I just... leave it.
I like the stability (duh) that it gives the finished pieces and I especially like not having to deal with taking out the paper. I tried piecing onto paper and taking it out... and swore never to do so again.
If you use the super-thin interfacing/stabilizer, you can hardly tell it's there.
Works for me! :)
I like the stability (duh) that it gives the finished pieces and I especially like not having to deal with taking out the paper. I tried piecing onto paper and taking it out... and swore never to do so again.
If you use the super-thin interfacing/stabilizer, you can hardly tell it's there.
Works for me! :)
#55
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Location: Port Lavaca, TX
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Originally Posted by Grandma Phyl
Watched a Fons and Porter on tv the other day they folded and ran their fingernail along the seam line held one side and it came off real easy. Now I havent tried this only watched them do it, seems sometimes when you watch them do it and me doing it is a whole new story
#58
It feels like paper but really isn't. What I have is called Poly Stable Stuff. description:
It comes by the yard or prepackaged in fifty 8.5" x 11" sheets ready to go for use in a copy machine, ink jet printer or laser printer. You can leave it on the underside of your work. If you wet or wash your finished project, Stable Stuff® Poly becomes a fine, soft layer of unnoticeable polyester fibers inside your project.
It comes by the yard or prepackaged in fifty 8.5" x 11" sheets ready to go for use in a copy machine, ink jet printer or laser printer. You can leave it on the underside of your work. If you wet or wash your finished project, Stable Stuff® Poly becomes a fine, soft layer of unnoticeable polyester fibers inside your project.
#59
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Location: Bay Area near San Francisco
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Originally Posted by vjjo743
Do you have trick for removing paper from you PP. Thanks
#60
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Portland, OR via Hawaii
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Originally Posted by virtualbernie
Originally Posted by vjjo743
Thanks, I was afraid there was not an easy way. I just finished PP a J. Niemeyer. Love how the quilt looks, so perfect, but taking that paper off, @#@@
When taking paper off, I generally sit at a table with a plastic bag next to the piece. I crease the paper against the seam and pick any small pieces up with a pair of medical tweezers or a small hemostat (my neighbor was an MD and had old suture sets that were too worn out for his office use.) When I'm done I take the top outdoors and shake it out to get all the tiny bits free (and off the floor indoors :lol: )
Just take your time, going and a moderate pace saves me a lot of "double back" time here.
But that's what works for me.
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