Originally Posted by kclausing
I was wondering if there are alternatives to fusible, to avoid the extra cost?
I thought about using basting spray and attaching the tshirt to another piece of fabric (maybe from some other old shirts). what do you all think?
To stabilize t-shirt fabric, most people prefer fusible tricot. It is cheaper purchased as yardage from a drapery company. I bought mine online from this company:
http://www.bblackandsons.com
JoAnn's carries it also.
The idea of using basting spray with foundation fabric is really interesting, but haven't heard of anyone trying that. An alternative might be to heavily starch the t-shirt fabric (1:1 solution of Sta-Flo liquid laundry starch and water) before cutting, but again I haven't tried that. I use the starch to stabilize background fabric for machine applique, but haven't tried it on t-shirt fabric.