Wax paper for quilt templates/stencils??
03-12-2013, 06:35 AM
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The only thing I've used waxed paper for in relation to quilting is ironing over it to set crayon coloring on blocks. Works great!
The crayon colored blocks lasted for years until the background muslin gave up of old age and hard usage. Some of it had been done by my mother and her sister before my mom got married in the 30s and I finished it as a home ec project in the 60s. Retired to display only in the 90s and destroyed by fire when our house burned in 2000. Colors were still pretty even after 30 years of washing.
The crayon colored blocks lasted for years until the background muslin gave up of old age and hard usage. Some of it had been done by my mother and her sister before my mom got married in the 30s and I finished it as a home ec project in the 60s. Retired to display only in the 90s and destroyed by fire when our house burned in 2000. Colors were still pretty even after 30 years of washing.
03-12-2013, 09:46 AM
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Yes it can be cut down. In fact there is a company that sells it in letter size. If you do cut down I would suggest using a rotary cutter to assure straight edges and lay them all flat with heavy books on top to flatten them out before putting thru copier.
03-13-2013, 02:48 AM
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I use was paper ALL the time for repeats.
Take one copy of you pattern and put it on top of a nest of paper piece. Then run it through your sewing machine with no thread.
I pin my paper pieces in place on the quilt and then tear the paper away.
MaryKatherine
Take one copy of you pattern and put it on top of a nest of paper piece. Then run it through your sewing machine with no thread.
I pin my paper pieces in place on the quilt and then tear the paper away.
MaryKatherine
03-13-2013, 03:51 AM
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I got a tablet of tracing paper, tore the sheets out and trimmed them to 8.5 size (length doesn't matter, just width to fit in the feeder tray), made a copy of the pattern I wanted and printed it onto the tracing paper. Trimmed the design to fit, pinned it to the quilt and quilted over it, then tore off paper. Worked pretty well!
03-13-2013, 03:53 AM
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The only thing I've used waxed paper for in relation to quilting is ironing over it to set crayon coloring on blocks. Works great!
The crayon colored blocks lasted for years until the background muslin gave up of old age and hard usage. Some of it had been done by my mother and her sister before my mom got married in the 30s and I finished it as a home ec project in the 60s. Retired to display only in the 90s and destroyed by fire when our house burned in 2000. Colors were still pretty even after 30 years of washing.
The crayon colored blocks lasted for years until the background muslin gave up of old age and hard usage. Some of it had been done by my mother and her sister before my mom got married in the 30s and I finished it as a home ec project in the 60s. Retired to display only in the 90s and destroyed by fire when our house burned in 2000. Colors were still pretty even after 30 years of washing.
03-13-2013, 04:18 AM
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I have used this method many times and mostly I do it with tissue paper, just make a pile of sheets and sew away after making your tracing of the pattern choice. The tissue tears away easily.
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