Thread: STENCIL MAKING
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Old 01-26-2011, 08:03 AM
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Are you wanting to make a permanent stencil to then chalk or somehow mark the lines onto the quilt? Or are you just wanting to follow a line on a quilt? For permanent stencils you could just cut a design in some form of plastic or even use freezer paper or construction paper which you can run through some printers to make it even easier. Then a sharp small exacto type knife to cut the marks or run an unthreaded sewing machine over it to make the holes to pounce or mark through. If you're trying to stuff an entire quilt through a sit down sewing machine--only mark a small section at a time.

You can also just print or trace your design onto a very light weight stabilizer (Sulky Solvy mentioned above) or even thin paper and just rip it off later.

The Press 'n' Seal stuff didn't work well for me. It didn't all come off and little bits get stuck under the thread. I prefer to use the tissue paper for gift wrapping and then just pin it on or use painters tape. Vellum will also work & can run through a printer but is expensive. I got the tissue paper at the dollar store in a bundle.

You may laugh but even toilet tissue or kleenex would work for smaller designs. Oh, and I prefer to use a green ballpoint ink pen to trace the design because it's much easier to wash out if it somehow gets transferred to the quilt. Something about the composition of green ink makes it unstable so it never really bonds to whatever it's on.
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