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Old 06-27-2011, 05:28 AM
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clsurz
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What she said below is how I also do it.


Originally Posted by Janquiltz
I make my own fabric sheets. Use prepared for dyeing fabric or get a good quality muslin and wash it to get the sizing out. Cut a muslin strip 9" wide WOF. Cut freezer paper about 8 1/2" wide and same WOF as your fabric. Sub-cut freezer paper to 11". Iron freezer paper on to the fabric strip, then cut fabric strip to 11". Your letter size fabric backed with freezer paper is ready to go through the printer so that you can print your photo on it. One hint is to cut a small diagonal piece out of each leading corner of your fabric sheet. This is suppose to allow the paper to feed through the printer properly. Another hint is to make sure whether your fabric sheet should be fed in to the printer fabric facing down or facing up. I usually write "fabric face up" and put the paper face up I print something to see if what I printed prints on the front or back and then feeding one fabric sheet at a time I print my pictures.

I let the photos rest for 24 hours to ensure that they are completely dry. You can remove the freezer paper at this point. Then I heat set them with the iron on cotton and press picture side down. Then I hand wash each fabric photo - let air dry and press again. Good luck. PS Your iron on sheets are probably meant to be used to put a picture or whatever onto the front of a tee shirt. I believe that this type fabric sheet makes a "rubber/plastic-type" print.
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