Thread: Did you know you don’t have to buy those fancy fabric printer sheets ?

Wow!! Thanks

Interesting....I'll have to remember this...my bubble jet set is nearly empty.

Thank you so much for sharing this!!

All I can get ,it says error, page no longer exists.

You really do not need all that stuff. all yoiu do need is some soda ash or washing soda. put half a cup of it into two pints of hot water and saok the fabric in the solution for a few minutes take care not to get any onto your eyes and sensitive hands should wear rubber gloves . squeeze out the excesse solution and then hang to drip dry the fabric iron it flat and then iron onto freezer/ butchers paper make sure there are no loose threads to catch the rollers
this is a great method to use if you are creating minnie landscape pictures as you can do a sheet of grass and one of sky and mountains and water and such then paper piece to produce a wonderfull mural.
annei

I just went to the website that she posted the second time and it went right to it ... I decided to copy and paste the info onto a word document so I can save it in my quilting file on my computer

I was able to access the page using the link in the post at 2:54am.
Photo printing projects are fun and because they are personalized for the recipient, really do have high impact.
I have printed on fabric using the freezer paper method for several years as a method of making customized quilt labels. I heat set the ink with my iron then rinse lightly in cool water. Certain printer inks lend themselves to fabric very well, others do not.

Last year, I tested several methods for setting ink into the fabric for a customer's photo quilt and this is what I learned: All photos need to dry after printing, rinsed and ironed, regardless of solution methods.

From my experience, no photo quilt will hold up to repeated washings and retain original color as the freshly completed project, regardless of using the name brand fabric setting solution or DIY solution.

However, the weave of the fabric will make the difference in the clarity of photos and smoothness of the fabric. I tried PFD fabric and a few other 100% cottons from various textile manufacturers. PFD fabric seemed to be much more coarse than I expected after setting it with the solution. I found very fine Pima cottons and silks to work very well in mimicking the clarity of the original photo. But certainly PFD and cottons can be used, depending on the intended use of the project and recipient.