redstilettos

Hi all,

I've been doodling some designs I'd like to use for pantographs. I do not have rear handles for doing one on my longarm, but was told I could 'maybe' use a temporary spray glue to glue the paper to the top of the quilt, and then quilt through the paper, and then remove it once it's stitched.

Has anyone tried this? Will the paper come off?

Pros? Cons?

Iceblossom

I would not spray on my paper although I have heard of that.

I do quilt through paper all the time and have done it on both a long arm and a home machine. I buy rolls of parchment paper at the dollar store, they are 1-foot x 25 feet, easily trace through and tear off pretty nicely. I use safety pins to secure the design out of the stitching area.

There are some things to be aware of, ink/graphite can transfer off your drawing and into your thread and be hard to get out.

We have some previous threads on this topic, I'll look for a couple.

Here's one,
Quilting onto Paper

that has a link to this one
Custom Quilting on Domestic Machine

redstilettos

Hm. Maybe tracing to parchment would be better. Or what about Press & seal?

quiltingshorttimer

I tried Press n'Seal and the UltraClean Crayola marker stayed on the thread and was a bear to get out. Plus I thought the press n'seal was hard to get off, left little bits under the stitches--so I'd advise not using that to stitch through.

I've only tried this once, but using paper and a sewing tracing wheel (have to go over it several times) and then chalk dusted over the holes left. Do you have a laser light on your machine? I've pinned my design to the side of where I wanted to quilt and used the laser light to trace it while I sewed.