Stabilizer for ties?
#1
Stabilizer for ties?
A friend has asked me to make a quilt using her deceased husband's ties. They are a mixture of 100% silk and 100% polyester and one acetate. I'm doing a Dresden Plate motif using the larger ends. I've deconstructed them and need an iron on stabilizer before I start cutting and piecing. Does anyone have a suggestion as to the best kind that uses low heat to fuse? It has been many years since I needed fusible interfacing, so I don't know which to purchase.
#4
Misty fuse is a fusible web, not an interfacing. I'd go to a decent fabric store and see what they have on the shelf and read every single label to find the right one.
#8
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 311
I have dismantled hundreds of ties. I've used the lightest weight Pellon, however, I have found that a very heavy starch....the blue liquid Sta-flo diluted only like 1:1 gives a wonderful stiffness--and is cheaper! Of course the quilt should be washed so the starch is removed after construction.
#9
Thank you all for your ideas--please keep them coming. I'm over 150 miles from the closest fabric store other than a Walmart which is why I asked on here. Anything I purchase will need to be ordered. My concern is I can't use high heat to fuse the stabilizer, and most of the descriptions I've read do not provide the heat setting used. I did use a pressing cloth to press most of the folds out of the deconstructed ties since my iron doesn't even provide steam at the poly/silk temps.
I hadn't thought of using starch. All I can find locally is the spray, but it is heavy starch. Do you think two applications might work?
I hadn't thought of using starch. All I can find locally is the spray, but it is heavy starch. Do you think two applications might work?
#10
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Illinois
Posts: 9,018
I have dismantled hundreds of ties. I've used the lightest weight Pellon, however, I have found that a very heavy starch....the blue liquid Sta-flo diluted only like 1:1 gives a wonderful stiffness--and is cheaper! Of course the quilt should be washed so the starch is removed after construction.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post